Police powerless to take action against Danish ‘revenge porn’ website

Authorities can do nothing about people downloading sexually-explicit photos of young Danish girls

Lucie Rychla

Sep 16, 2016

The authorities have conceded there is little they can do about a Danish revenge porn website, which provides access to photos and videos of hundreds young Danish girls in explicitly sexual situations, because it is hosted on a server located abroad.

The police has been aware of the site since the spring, but their hands are tied.

“I have been so upset and experienced hell because of it,” a woman from Jutland told BT. “What if my family finds out?”

The website allows anonymous users to share and request intimate pictures of specific girls, but also gives access to an archive stored on the anonymous file-sharing site volafile.io, where users can enter ‘a room’ with folders containing thousands of pornographic images and videos.

In many cases, the sexually-explicit photos were taken by the girls’ ex-boyfriends, who are sharing them online without the girls’ consent.

“Some of the images fall into the Danish definition of child pornography,” Flemming Kjærside, a police officer at the department for cyber-related sexual offences, told BT.

“In many cases, it is 15 to 18-year-old adolescent boys who are responsible for doing this. They haven’t thought about the damage they cause to the girls.”

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