By Drew Cullen
Posted: 27/01/2003 at 12:22 GMT

The Sunday Times has obtained Operation Ore's entire list of UK subscribers to child porn sites. Containing 7,272 names, the list includes 'at least 20 senior executives' and a 'senior teacher at an exclusive girl's public school, services personnel from at least five military bases, GPs, university academics and civil servants."

There's more: a "famous newspaper columnist is named, along with a song writer for a legendary pop band and a member of another chart-topping 1980s cult pop group, along with an official with the Church of England."

The 1000-page list contains names, addresses and credit card details of UK subscribers to an American child porn aggregator. Members paid £21 a month to Landslide Productions of Texas, for access to 300 child porn sites.

The list was compiled by the US Postal Service, which busted Landslide in 1999. Its sheer size has overwhelmed UK police. To date, only 1,200- 2,000 people have been arrested, depending upon which report you believe. And only 50 people, including Pete Townsend of The Who have been named in public.

Users or Abusers?

In our recent article Watch out! There's a chatroom paedophile about, we asked if reinforcement of deviant sexual fantasies, through exposure to child abuse material, could encourage some to turn their masturbatory fantasies into reality. We think this is a reasonable question: no-one yet knows the answer.

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