Seoul Metropolitan Police's cyber crime squad on Friday applied for arrest
warrants for the operator of one of the sites, identified as Ahn, and 10
subscribers for setting up an obscene website and uploading lewd material.
Police booked another 58 site operators and their most active subscribers
without detention.
Police said a man identified as Kang and others shared a total of 70,000 porn
files they owned on the P2P websites and were paid royalties whenever other
members downloaded them. Investigation revealed that the websites' 3 million
members included 140,000 minors.
Meanwhile, Seoul's Jongro Police Station on Friday booked 275 Internet users
including a 19-year-old man identified as Im for providing porn files to five
P2P websites. College students account for 70 percent of the number. The rest
are five women and 10 elementary, middle and high school students.
A police officer said some 90 percent of files shared on P2P sites were illegal, with porn constituting 40 percent of those. He vowed police would continue their crackdown on P2P sites.
