I own a free webhost and someone uploaded child porn... What to do??

Well that's about it, of course I banned his ip address and removed all of his accounts...

Should I report it somewhere (where?). I'm not really sure what to do with this and am quite shocked at the moment...

 

I think what you did was plenty. You took proper procedures. Nothing you can do when you host that, you just have to work to catch those things.

 

Personally speaking I think you should contact the person's isp. This type of activity is not only highly illegal but just plain sick.

 

Report it to the police ASAP and keep a backup of all logs.

You have nothing to fear, you've done nothing wrong but I think you should report the matter, both as good practise but also to ensure you're not implicated in any future investigation as a source (rather than carrier) of illegal material.

You'll find the police are familiar with this type of thing when you get put through to the correct department.

 

Please contact the FBI and report the incident. I think you are outside the US, but they should follow up nonetheless. You can check out this page here:

http://www.fbi.gov/innocent.htm

From that page:

• Report Child Exploitation and Pornography:
- Use our Cyber Tip Line or call 1-800-843-5678
- Or contact FBI Crime Against Children coordinators
in our Local Field Offices ​

If not, please report it to your local authorities.

 

Why you need to contact anyone ? Or you want bring more trouble come to you ?
Just do this way.
Delete , removed that account , notify to that owner's about this.
Just banned which people do it again
Then. It's ok

 

Buddy, you did enough. If you are going to involve in police matter then they ask a hefty of questions and you will find yourself in a lot of problems.
Just take care of this type of situation onwards.

 

Agree, i think you should update your Privacy Policy and TOS, and force your member to agree it, in that case if any problem arrives, you'll be in safe position.

 

What a bunch of pathetic wimps. Imagine it was your child, your sister, your family who is being abused. Why not report it? There is no harm and it will hopefully keep one more sick fuck from trying to obtain or spread child porn.

Why are you two not interested in that?

 

Thanks for all your input But the situation has changed a bit..

In my logs I looked up what the referrals were for all the visitors coming to that particular subdomain (it ate up 2 GB bandwidth an hour with a 200 KB site, so it wasn't hard to discover.. Is there such a big market to get THAT much visitors?!?!!?) and they came from a whole ring of child porn sites like this:

Website with clickable images of children (ugh only typing this makes me sick...), click on one of them and you go to a new site with clickable images of children, etc, etc, etc... I'm afraid my server hosted only a few of the sites in that ring..

Now I really think I should report that, where do I do that best? Should I tell them I discovered that ring because someone uploaded child porn on my server? I don't really know how to handle with this as I'm a bit scared to get in trouble and the authorities think I did something awful

Ironic actually, the rules are so strict that you can't report it without thinking you could be guilty person...

Thanks again!

 

Contact a local attorney and get real advice. You very well may have some strict rules to follow to make sure you are not inadvertently committing a crime. Please immediately seek legal advice.

 

I agree with you entirely. Follow browntwn's advice from post #5 You have a moral responsibility to report this information, imagine if this person's activities isn't just restricted to uploading only & is doing something far worse.

 

yup man go ahead and report that bas***d, its a very serious case the people who downloaded will also get severe punishments.

 

If you discovered a child pornography website, report it. Seriously, this isn't a hard situation you're in. You've done nothing wrong. Keep your logs, they'll want the IP addresses.

 

The FBI is a U.S Agency, not the world police.

 

Don't make me post all of the international child porn investigations the FBI has been involved in, do some reading yourself.

(couldn't help myself and did the work for you)
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march08/innocentimages_030608.html

Please come back and tell my how the FBI does not handle this type of matter

By the way, what makes you think his discovery of child porn on his website is only being viewed by non-US citizens and there are no violations of US law? There are many ways for the US to have jurisdiction. The fact that the person who is reporting the crime is not a US citizen is irrelevant.

Online Child Pornography/Child Sexual Exploitation Investigations

The Innocent Images National Initiative (IINI), a component of FBI's Cyber Crimes Program, is an intelligence driven, proactive, multi-agency investigative operation to combat the proliferation of child pornography/child sexual exploitation (CP/CSE) facilitated by an online computer. The IINI provides centralized coordination and analysis of case information that by its very nature is national and international in scope, requiring unprecedented coordination with state, local, and international governments and among FBI field offices and Legal Attachés.
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/innocent.htm​

The Innocent Images International Task Force became operational on October 6, 2004 and includes law enforcement officers from the following countries: United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Ukraine, Belarus, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Croatia, Latvia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Fiji, Cyprus, Iceland, Denmark, Panama, and Europol. To date, more than 47 international officers have traveled to the United States and have worked side-by-side with special agents of the FBI at the Innocent Images Unit. The task force allows for the real-time transfer of information from and to the FBI and between task-force members and their countries. Task Force officers stay in the United States for several months and remain an integral part of the task force once they return to their home countries. The FBI’s Innocent Images International Task Force successfully brings together law enforcement from around the world to address the global crime problem of online child exploitation.​

 

It's not really worth an argument. Of course the FBI cooperates and is involved with joint task forces in conjunction with a lot of other nations, but there is no reason that a citizen of another country would call the FBI to investigate a crime on their soil, when The Netherlands has it's own investigative agencies. The logical call would be to contact your own agency, the cooperation ith the FBI, Interpol, and other agencies is assumed if needed, but you don't start with another countries agency unless the crime originated from that country...that's just dumb.

That would be like me calling the Canadian Mounties for a Michigan to Wisconsin drug trafficing operation that doesn't even cross into the Canadian border, when I could just call my own police.

 

Hey, you managed to get one thing right.

 

Stick around, it happens often. No need to over think simple equations. "Call the police" is pretty simple.

 

You do the right thing...