[cambalache]

> If there's no market for such pictures, likely less children will suffer the consequences.

The market will always exist: pedophiles. They have been and will be among us until the end of times.

> Fighting the crime directly is important, but so is doing it indirectly.

Yes, but the difference is so abysmal that you know where is more important to put the effort. Stopping even 1 child of being abused is better than stopping the sharing of 1 million child porn pics.

[phs318u]

You're assuming that fighting one has no relation to fighting the other. Often the way breakthroughs are made here is in the disco very of networks and the roles of key players in the networks. In some cases, CP is shared by trading, with higher value placed on "new" material, which directly creates an incentive to produce CP not just distribute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_International_child_porno...