Dissemination of illegal and harmful material.
During the past years, the Internet has been
used for commercial purposes by the legitimate
“adult entertainment industry”. However, the
Internet is now increasingly used for the
distribution of material deemed to be legally
obscene in several countries. Another area of
concern is child pornography. Since the late
1980s, it has been distributed increasingly
through a range of computer networks, using a
variety of Internet services, including websites.
A certain proportion of the distribution of child
pornography has been linked to transnational
organized crime.