Thomas Reedy Special On BBC2

could u clue in a know-nothing here sarah, please?

Sure, Operation Avalanche is the big child porn opperation that is seeing the huge number of arrests throughout the world including some celebs, police officers, etc. It was the huge child porn biz run out of Texas.

Here is an article about it.

Thanks! It was interesting.

I remember reading Reedy's diary a few years ago after someone posted a link on PornCity BBS with a post saying that the site had been closed down, and I remember reading what Reedy wrote about the guy in his garden.

As I remember the reporter said he was charging $25/month for access to the diary... which he wasn't... it was simply protected with an Adult Check password which cost about $20 at the time (any webmaster that ever made even 1 sale with Adult Check could use their webmaster login to access any Adult Check site - I don't know if they still do that) ... also I remember that a few people on PCBBS were using KeyZ for their LEGAL sites. Ahhh, memories.

If I have one complaint about the report, it is that they almost made it seem like ALL internet porn (sans child porn) is illegal. As usual. Reedy's lawyer looked like a seedy fuck too (was probably a member ).

Caught it too.....very interesting.

Agree with what you said there Id, could have done with a little less hype, what a slimeball though - just his picture

I bet there's a LOT of people sweating buckets here in uk now, waiting for their knock on the door.

Bastards got whats coming to them imho

yes..at the end I said to my husband that is was ever so nice of them not to seperate out the child porn and adult porn sides of the biz. The only thing they said was that he couldn't make money in the adult side so he went to child porn. Well, gee no I bet he couldn't make a million pounds a week in adult porn but back then he should have been able to make a living unless he was a total idiot.

I really wanted the show to talk about the self policing nature of this biz but no, that would mean that some smut peddlars (as that lady called us) weren't so bad.

Also, didn't need the creepy music running throughout. Like the audience needed to be told that cp was bad.

Yes... I watched it, very interesting.