Today, news outlets broke a story about a child pornography ring being busted after a year-long investigation by international police organisations.

Initially sparked by a tip-off from Brazilian police, Interpol has identified more than 200 potential offenders in 70 countries.

Australian Federal Police have apprehended 19 men, including a retired Victorian QC and a New South Wales police officer.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that:

“Australian Federal Police officers say they uncovered 500,000 images and 15,000 videos of child abuse that were allegedly shared between members of a peer-to-peer online network.”

It is not known if the material in question was traded exclusively over the internet, however the material that was could not have been prevented by the Government’s proposed internet censorship scheme.

This is because the trading vector used by the criminals was a peer-to-peer network, not web pages that could have been added to any sort of blacklist.