Radio 1’s lead story today has been about how P2P networks are used for distribution of pornographic images and especially paedophilic images. Well duh!

In just about every case of the introduction of new technology, porn has been one of the early adopters. It’s been true for printing, home cine cameras, the video recorder, the video camera, websites, etc and so it has been for P2P networks. In fact, I would guess that a porn image was downloaded across a P2P network within the first month of the first system being available.

It’s hardly news.