Guilty, all of them.
Guilty, all of them.
Princess Di was thought to be a master of the press for instance.
There is a certain amount of celebrities creating their own feeding frenzy.
My issue is more when people not in the game get hit by media storms.
"press" != "paparazzi"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana,_Princess_of_Wales#Death
Drunk driving probably didn't help either if you read the link you posted..
The economics of invasive celebrity photography go like this: companies pay (down-market) advertisers to get them name recognition; those advertisers pay tabloids for ad-space; the tabloid pays paparazzi for a hook to go on the cover.
What are the comparable economics of child abuse?
Secondary sources might get paid for access of course -- or might even not, all those stories in the media always talk about forums / clubs etc. and people exchanging stuff, not so much paying for it.
I'm just not sure where the demand side is. Like you said, I've also never heard of child porn "consumers" who weren't just trading the "amateur" videos created by others in the same groups.
From another angle: jump on Tor and you can find places to buy stolen credit cards, hire hit-men, or order drugs within 15 minutes. But you'll never encounter a "put Bitcoins in, get illegal pornography out" page. Is this sort of stuff just really well hidden (which I doubt, given the Streisand Effect); or is it a semi-backwards "industry" that avoids using the Internet for anything; or what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore is a good reference: CP was being sold fairly openly from a website, and it and every single credit-card-holder found in its customer database was raided. Subsequently it appears that a number of those CC holders hadn't actually bought it themselves, but had had their card stolen.
I've also heard reports of 'sharing rings' that require the user to maintain an upload/download ratio, rather like the regular piracy torrent community and old BBSs. These are particularly dangerous as they're incentivising the making of new "content" (ie committing horrible traumatising abuse).