But technically, these kids aren't real. They don't have birth certificates. They don't have names. And their parents are the pedophiles who created them. It's now up to the Supreme Court to decide.
Child pornography is illegal to produce.
It's illegal to distribute. But the law is not so clear cut anymore. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall on whether computer altered images should be treated the same as child pornography. At issue is the 1996 Child Pornography Prevention Act. The law expanded the definition of child pornography to include the startlingly real but virtual images of children in sexual settings.