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CW:Child abuse. Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
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The reality is that even if we go full idealistic true believers that think that the system works as it's described and intended (assuming the US justice system), the whole justice system really doesn't have the resources to go after every single person, and would rather go after those that they can be sure the charges would actually stick.
It's kinda the same way with where if every single person accused of any crime refused to take a plea deal, and went to trial, the entire system would be bogged down to the point of being non-functional.
Payment info could easily be stolen cards. As for IP addresses, those can easily get semi regularly rotated around, and I highly doubt ISPs are in the business of keeping a history of who had what IP at certain dates.