It is pointed out that the content subscription platform, where you can receive photos and videos of online influencers or creators on a membership basis, is being exposed to crime as it is transformed into a distribution channel for adult content.
According to Maeil Business News coverage on the 23rd, it is estimated that online content subscription platforms such as ‘Onlyfance’ and ‘Patrion’ are generating huge illegal profits due to the widespread distribution of pornography.
In the case of ONLYFANS, a platform established in the UK, it is pointed out that it has transformed into a support site that produces and distributes adult material as it became known that it allows pornography without censorship. In fact, from 2021 to April this year, Korean A, who distributed pornography on OnlineFance and had about 1,000 subscribers, was recently caught by the police. The pornography produced by Mr. A received a subscription fee of 5 dollars per subscriber for about 90 pieces, and premium content with a high level of quality was sold for additional money. Mr. A said, “I started out of curiosity because I heard that a lot of profit could be made in a short period of time.” Excluding the 20% commission, Onrepense is estimated to have earned hundreds of millions of won from content providers who produce and sell pornography by returning profits to content creators. Mr. B, who produced and distributed hundreds of contents, is currently caught by the police and is expected to be fined about 500 million won.
In addition, in social networking services (SNS) such as Twitter and Instagram, publicity to attract subscribers to content subscription platforms was frequently conducted. Famous influencers, married couples and couples who share their sex lives posted short edited videos of lewd content and seduced them into paying subscriptions. They also shared ways to lower the level of punishment when pornography is cracked down. Mr. C, who said that he once purchased pornography on ‘Likey,’ a platform where subscribers can make video calls with producers, said, “High-level content was sent by individual note.” I said, ‘And I recommended that sexual activity through video calls between adults is not illegal.”
The production and distribution of illegal pornography has also led to other cybersex crimes and prostitution, so the judicial authorities desperately need to crack down. According to the National Police Agency, the number of cyber-sexual violence crimes increased from 2690 in 2019 to 4349 in 2021.
Last year, Mr. Lee, a man in his 40s who posted illegal pornography, secretly administered methamphetamine to a massage therapist on a business trip and committed a sex crime. In March, it was revealed that an Internet broadcasting female BJ made illegal pornography and made video calls by coercion and threat. In the case of illegal pornography, it is a structure that is easy to be exposed to crimes such as drugs, as much as a video of sexual activity is uploaded with an unspecified number of people met online.
Overseas, where ONLYFANS was first brought into question, there were calls for stronger regulations and protection of youth sexuality. The US National Center for Missing and Abuse of Children (NCMEC) announced that “in 2019, about 10 missing children were linked to content posted on OnlineFance, and in 2020, the number tripled.” The U.S. National Center for the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) said, “Young people can also earn money through subscription platforms, so their popularity has increased.”
Attorney Seong-Geun Cho of Law Firm S said, “In the case of pornography distributed on subscription platforms, most of them are videos of the person themselves, so they do not fall under the crime of camera photography under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act, but fall under the crime of distributing pornography under the Information and Communications Network Act.” .
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2023-04-23 08:04:31
