The proposals in the bill infringe any number of rights both enshrined and un-codified, hence the need to make emotive appeals between piracy, private distribution networks and child abuse. I take it from your post that you do not object to this in fact. You don’t explicitly say what you think the solution is to the sharing of child porn, but your suggestion of police actively hunting down individual perpetrators as a result of ‘no obvious technological fixes’ implies certain things.

First, it avoids the big issue: what you suggest the police would have to do, is almost certainly illegal without a warrant. They would be doing the digital equivalent of opening someone’s mail or tapping their phone. A technological fix would not make this any more legal.

Second, you must have an extremely low opinion of the communities that gather round these networks. Perhaps you have heard the hysterical claims about pirates being equivalent to molesters and thing there’s no way they would shop a paedophile in their midst. They frequently do, but this is an area of society that journalists don’t go to and aren’t welcome, so you won’t hear about it.

Oh, and they didn’t do it for money.