Distressed by the severity of the Love Bug Virus' consequences, a selection of world leaders met six months ago to discuss Internet crime and initiated attempts to draft a treaty to standardize cybercrime laws. Unfortunately, not every government participated in those group meetings, nor does every government want to participate. Nothing substantial has resulted from those meetings to even begin to formulate an international or global policy or treaty to deal with cybercrime. Individual governments have different agendas on their back burners, but a few nations have independently drafted cybercrime laws that conflict with other nation's laws and could inevitably hamper the possible prosecution of criminals committing cybercrimes. Germany, for example, absolutely prohibits distributing Nazi propaganda, yet here in the United States our free speech laws permit Nazi propaganda to be distributed.
Child pornography is illegal in almost every industrialized nation.
Just this Saturday, Italian investigators in Italy sought international warrants against almost 1,600 individuals worldwide suspected of participating in online child pornography. Efforts to successfully serve those 1600 warrants are as yet unpublicized, but the logistics to enable such a worldwide effort indicate the ferocity that some governments plan to take in regards to cybercrime. An additional 1,030 international warrants are being granted pending the completed investigations of the Italian police. In no way am I condoning child pornography, but to serve a warrant on someone who entered a site with the ambiguous name of Childlovers just doesn't seem entirely fair. The name unto itself is not clearly pornographic in nature.