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I would be so bold to say that there are few if any child porn websites out there.

Be as bold as you like. And you are completely wrong.

WARNING TO OTHERS ! I'll get a bit technical below but I'll fight to keep it simple. I've tried to avoid any real computer technical discussion on these threads. I can't avoid it any longer in this case. My apologies to others in advance for the boredom I am about to induce.
There are moveable or DYNAMIC websites. In short, people who run their website from a DYNAMIC IP address rather than a STATIC IP address.

In your web browser type in http://209.157.64.200 and whack your {Enter] key.

209.157.64.200 is freerepublic.com and always will be until JimRob or someone on his behalf or his ISP changes it.
FreeRepublic.com ALWAYS has that same dotted quad IP address, its a static IP. MOST computers (which happen to be home computers) connecting to the Internet have dynamic IP addresses assigned to them by their ISPs. Just about any fool can put up a dynamic website with pornography (or anything else for that matter) on it (presuming you know what software to use and how to set it up) and all that fool has to do is advertise to others where to visit.

So if a fool wanted to set up a dynamic pornography image SWAP website, its pretty straight forward.
So, to use your example, the fool would simply flood USENET Newsgroups and other places with the IP de jour of his or her child pornography website because their pornography swap site will be available under that IP adderss for several days or weeks until their ISP's dhcpd host (the special daemon process that assigns the IP address in the first place) says "Hey the lease time on that host IP is up !" and reassigns a different dynamic IP.

(I really don't want to explain things in any more detail than I have above. If thread readers want to read more about these things, there are a myriad and plethora of libraries of introductory information online where you can read the basics that I've simply glossed over above. Like I said, I own an automobile and I know how to change the spark plugs but I am not an automechanic. Sometimes a little knowledge is dangerous.)

So, inspite of your pronouncement above;
There is tons of child pornography online at any one time.

Other readily available sources of pornography are also only a few keystrokes away. Do a search of kiddie porn or child porn or just plain porn on yahoo.com or google. Or better, connect to your own ISP's news servers. Or to public news servers that are available online. This has been discussed at length before. Spend a few hours (I strongly recommend you keep a large plastic bucket handy to puke into) in the USENET newsgroups like
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.schoolgirls or
alt.binaries.multimedia.erotica.amateur or
any of the other hundreds of USENET news groups from all over the world that have pornography images available to freely download. In any one of those hundreds of pornography image and digital movie newsgroups there are MANY child porn images. People hack news servers and other machines on the internet to traffic, post and download this sort of filth. USENET News is only ONE of the ways of archiving, swapping or transmitting images. There are many other methods.

Its a BIG WORLD out there. The internet is MORE than just webpages. And at the same time, some websites are archives that don't resemble what you'd think is a website when in fact they are storage repositories for filth.
Go onto IRC and get randomly spammed to visit poronography sites by broadcasted messages from strangers.

The market for filth is massive. You're in denial or terribly naive to suggest otherwise. Knowing how unhealthy and addictive it is, is the best way to not get swept up in it. Your statement above is plain wrong.

Thanks for the lesson, but I was referring to sites set up for illegal trading of child porn. You know..real ones that are registered.

So you were just plain wrong about my statement. Take it easy..

I think it's hopeless, but you did a real good job of explaining. It's just that you can lead a critter to water, but no way on this good earth can you force them to drink it.

I have a question for you. Much has been made about that "IEA" prefix on DW's files. I did a google search for IEA, and for IEA prefix. Two things I noted:

Lots of engineering groups use the letters "IEA". DW is an engineer. That might explain why some of his business files have that prefix. They could be related to some organization that he belongs to.

However, there was also a lot of computer-ese about iea as a prefix - a signal to end data transfer ("isa" = start, "iea" = end). Binaries were also mentioned. Would you know if this is something that would be common to downloaded binary files, that they would use the prefix "iea"??