Joe Pitts: “the British newspaper The Guardian has found that demand for child pornography through the use of file-sharing programs…”

“the British newspaper The Guardian has found that demand for child pornography through the use of file-sharing programs, like Kazaa, is leading to more abuse of children. The sale of peer-to-peer traffic in illegal images of children now dwarfs any other pedophile network they have found. David Wilson, professor of criminology at Central England, said, ``Peer-to-peer facilitates the most extreme, aggressive and reprehensible types of behavior that the Internet will allow.'' Programs that are used by kids to find songs or pictures of cartoons are delivering our children right into the clutches of these predators. And what are we doing about it? Nothing. Every day innocent kids are victimized on peer-to-peer file-trading software and our inaction allows them to walk right into the trap set by sexual predators. The time to act has come. I urge my colleagues to cosponsor my bill, H.R. 2885, so that we can move forward in protecting our kids online.”