Voir la version complète : Internet, une webcam et votre enfant
Pour les anglophones - le texte est assez simple à comprendre
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19k ids.ready.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html)
Tu pourrais copier l'article ici ? Parce que c'est assez embêtant de devoir s'inscrire (même gratuitement) pour le lire..
Désolé, l'article est désormais payant .... je n'avais pas vu avant de balancer le lien, je crois que le sujet peut donc être locké à moins que je n'en fasse un résumé partial
Désolé, l'article est désormais payant .... je n'avais pas vu avant de balancer le lien, je crois que le sujet peut donc être locké à moins que je n'en fasse un résumé partial
Non, non, il n'est pas payant, on peut le lire en s'inscrivant (je suis en train de le lire, d'ailleurs).
The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen. He had never run with the popular crowd and long ago had turned to the Internet for the friends he craved. But on this day, Justin Berry's fascination with cyberspace would change his life.
Weeks before, Justin had hooked up a Web camera to his computer, hoping to use it to meet other teenagers online. Instead, he heard only from men who chatted with him by instant message as they watched his image on the Internet. To Justin, they seemed just like friends, ready with compliments and always offering gifts.
Now, on an afternoon in 2000, one member of his audience sent a proposal: he would pay Justin $50 to sit bare-chested in front of his Webcam for three minutes. The man explained that Justin could receive the money instantly and helped him open an account on PayPal.com, an online payment system.
"I figured, I took off my shirt at the pool for nothing," he said recently. "So, I was kind of like, what's the difference?"
Justin removed his T-shirt. The men watching him oozed compliments.
So began the secret life of a teenager who was lured into selling images of his body on the Internet over the course of five years. From the seduction that began that day, this soccer-playing honor roll student was drawn into performing in front of the Webcam - undressing, showering, masturbating and even having sex - for an audience of more than 1,500 people who paid him, over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Justin's dark coming-of-age story is a collateral effect of recent technological advances. Minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening for-pay pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams. And they perform from the privacy of home, while parents are nearby, beyond their children's closed bedroom doors.
The business has created youthful Internet pornography stars - with nicknames like Riotboyy, Miss Honey and Gigglez - whose images are traded online long after their sites have vanished. In this world, adolescents announce schedules of their next masturbation for customers who pay fees for the performance or monthly subscription charges. Eager customers can even buy "private shows," in which teenagers sexually perform while following real-time instructions.
A six-month investigation by The New York Times into this corner of the Internet found that such sites had emerged largely without attracting the attention of law enforcement or youth protection organizations. While experts with these groups said they had witnessed a recent deluge of illicit, self-generated Webcam images, they had not known of the evolution of sites where minors sold images of themselves for money.
"We've been aware of the use of the Webcam and its potential use by exploiters," said Ernest E. Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a private group. "But this is a variation on a theme that we haven't seen. It's unbelievable."
Minors who run these sites find their anonymity amusing, joking that their customers may be the only adults who know of their activities. It is, in the words of one teenage site operator, the "Webcam Matrix," a reference to the movie in which a computerized world exists without the knowledge of most of humanity.
In this virtual universe, adults hunt for minors on legitimate sites used by Webcam owners who post contact information in hopes of attracting friends. If children respond to messages, adults spend time "grooming" them - with praise, attention and gifts - before seeking to persuade them to film themselves pornographically.
The lure is the prospect of easy money. Many teenagers solicit "donations," request gifts through sites like Amazon.com or negotiate payments, while a smaller number charge monthly fees. But there are other beneficiaries, including businesses, some witting and some unwitting, that provide services to the sites like Web hosting and payment processing.
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Not all victims profit, with some children ending up as pornographic commodities inadvertently, even unknowingly. Adolescents have appeared naked on their Webcams as a joke, or as presents for boyfriends or girlfriends, only to have their images posted on for-pay pornography sites. One Web site proclaims that it features 140,000 images of "adolescents in cute panties exposing themselves on their teen Webcams."
Entry into this side of cyberspace is simplicity itself. Webcams cost as little as $20, and the number of them being used has mushroomed to 15 million, according to IDC, an industry consulting group. At the same time, instant messaging programs have become ubiquitous, and high-speed connections, allowing for rapid image transmission, are common.
The scale of Webcam child pornography is unknown, because it is new and extremely secretive. One online portal that advertises for-pay Webcam sites, many of them pornographic, lists at least 585 sites created by teenagers, internal site records show. At one computer bulletin board for adults attracted to adolescents, a review of postings over the course of a week revealed Webcam image postings of at least 98 minors.
The Times inquiry has already resulted in a large-scale criminal investigation. In June, The Times located Justin Berry, then 18. In interviews, Justin revealed the existence of a group of more than 1,500 men who paid for his online images, as well as evidence that other identifiable children as young as 13 were being actively exploited.
In a series of meetings, The Times persuaded Justin to abandon his business and, to protect other children at risk, assisted him in contacting the Justice Department. Arrests and indictments of adults he identified as pornography producers and traffickers began in September. Investigators are also focusing on businesses, including credit card processors that have aided illegal sites. Anyone who has created, distributed, marketed, possessed or paid to view such pornography is open to a criminal charge.
"The fact that we are getting so many potential targets, people who knowingly bought into a child pornographic Web site, could lead to hundreds of other subjects and potentially save hundreds of other kids that we are not aware of yet," said Monique Winkis, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who is working the case.
Law enforcement officials also said that, with the cooperation of Justin, they had obtained a rare guide into this secluded online world whose story illuminates the exploitation that takes place there.
"I didn't want these people to hurt any more kids," Justin said recently of his decision to become a federal witness. "I didn't want anyone else to live the life I lived."
A High-Tech Transformation
Not long ago, the distribution of child pornography in America was a smallish trade, relegated to back rooms and corners where even the proprietors of X-rated bookstores refused to loiter.
By the mid-1980's, however, technology had transformed the business, with pedophiles going online to communicate anonymously and post images through rudimentary bulletin board systems. As Internet use boomed in the 1990's, these adults honed their computer skills, finding advanced ways to meet online and swap illegal photos; images once hard to obtain were suddenly available with the click of a mouse.
As the decade drew to a close, according to experts and records of online conversations, these adults began openly fantasizing of the day they would be able to reach out to children directly, through instant messaging and live video, to obtain the pornography they desired.
Their dream was realized with the Web camera, which transformed online pornography the way the automobile changed transportation. At first, the cameras, some priced at more than $100, offered little more than grainy snapshots, "refreshed" a few times per minute. But it was not long before easy-to-use $20 Webcams could transmit high-quality continuous color video across the globe instantly.
By 2000, things had worked out exactly the way the pedophiles hoped. Webcams were the rage among computer-savvy minors, creating a bountiful selection of potential targets.
(à suivre - bon, y en a encore 6 pages comme ça, j'ai un peu la flemme)
Trop long pour un vendredi soir :o
Désolé, l'article est désormais payant .... je n'avais pas vu avant de balancer le lien, je crois que le sujet peut donc être locké à moins que je n'en fasse un résumé partial
Non, non, il n'est pas payant, on peut le lire en s'inscrivant (je suis en train de le lire, d'ailleurs).
Je suis méga doué avec le ouaibe
En lisant rapidement 1 ligne sur 2 (ou 3 même), j'ai cru comprendre qu'un adolescent s'était fait payer pour s'exhiber devant sa web-cam.
C'est bien ça ?
Oui, grosso modo. Ca fait peur quand même...
En lisant rapidement 1 ligne sur 2 (ou 3 même), j'ai cru comprendre qu'un adolescent s'était fait payer pour s'exhiber devant sa web-cam.
C'est bien ça ?
Il pensait parler avec des jeunes de son âge, 13 ans au début de l'histoire. Puis, au bout d'un moment, il y en a un qui lui a demandé d'enlver son pull ou sa chemise, plus tard, son pantalon and so on ...
Il a fini par comprendre et se faire payer, créé une wish list sur amazon, un genre de compte paypal etc ...
Il a aussi rencontré certains clients
Son père lui a procuré des prostituées pour qu'ils couchent on line avec elles - il avait alors quinze ans
Des sites concurrents s'étant ouverts, il atout fait, et souvent réussi, pour les faire fermer
A 18 ans, il a obtenu l'immunité et a dénoncé tous ses clients
Son père lui a procuré des prostituées pour qu'ils couchent on line avec elles - il avait alors quinze ans
On couche comment on-line ???
Je suis pas non plus très doué avec Internet ou l'article est effectivement payant ?
Je n'en ai qu'un bref résumé, accompagné de :
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Son père lui a procuré des prostituées pour qu'ils couchent on line avec elles - il avait alors quinze ans
On couche comment on-line ???
A mon avis, ils étaient dans la même pièce, mais la webcam allumée.
Son père lui a procuré des prostituées pour qu'ils couchent on line avec elles - il avait alors quinze ans
On couche comment on-line ???
Devant une webcam
Je suis pas non plus très doué avec Internet ou l'article est effectivement payant ?
Je n'en ai qu'un bref résumé, accompagné de :
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Pim en a fait un copier / coller
Je sais qu'elle en a fait un copier/coller (que j'ai lu), d'ailleurs, merci à elle, mais je cherchais à comprendre le fonctionnement du site de NY Times ;-)
Je sais qu'elle en a fait un copier/coller (que j'ai lu), d'ailleurs, merci à elle, mais je cherchais à comprendre le fonctionnement du site de NY Times ;-)
A y bien réfléchir, je pense qu'elle veut sauter une classe, je propose donc qu'on lui balance quelques boulettes avec Jean
Je sais qu'elle en a fait un copier/coller (que j'ai lu), d'ailleurs, merci à elle, mais je cherchais à comprendre le fonctionnement du site de NY Times ;-)
A y bien réfléchir, je pense qu'elle veut sauter une classe, je propose donc qu'on lui balance quelques boulettes avec JeanOuais! Tous sur Pim!! (ne voyez aucune trivialité dans cette assertion)
Si elle y arrive, ça sera la deuxième fois. Je propose donc quelque chose de plus sévère. Hmm... Des craies ?
Si elle y arrive, ça sera la deuxième fois. Je propose donc quelque chose de plus sévère. Hmm... Des crais ?Des craiEs :idea:
Comment je suis trop fort en orthographe, pourquoi j'ai sauté de classe moi :mad2:
J'étais entrain d'éditer :mad2:
Bref, choisissez vos couleurs :
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J'étais entrein d'éditer :mad2:
en trAin :idea:
Oui c'est moi l'Agnan de service en fait :D
Il va vraiment falloir que je pense à me relire avant de poster, ou à taper moins vite :mad2:
Je fais des fautes affligeantes :o (A cause de la vitesse, vous aurez compris :mad2:)
Bon, je m'efforce de vous faciliter le travail, et voilà comment je suis remerciée. :x
Ne comptez pas sur moi pour les 6 autres pages de l'article. :x :x
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