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File Sharing In Plain View
University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers, Brian Levine and Marc Liberatore, have created an extremely powerful tool they call RoundUp to help find child pornography as it’s moving around on the Internet. RoundUp is software specifically designed for law enforcement and is already being used by 58 of the 61 child porn task forces (ICAC) across the country. You can use it too, with no Fourth Amendment violations. It works using the Plain View Doctrine and there’s no invasion of anyone’s personal computer.
The software allows officers to collect evidence against people using the Internet as a means of possessing and sharing illegal pornographic images of children. Officers are able to search open peer-to-peer (p2p) networks to gather their evidence.
To understand p2p networks, think of Napster or Kazaa, the “free” music (among other things) sharing sites of just a few years ago. While these sites didn’t store any files, they acted as vehicles for users who wanted to swap/share files. It’s the same way sexual deviants scour the Internet for kiddie porn; they find portals from which to share and get images. And according to Levine, there’s lots of sharing going on at any given moment.
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