The following information was translated from Chinese website MOP, thread 1 & thread 2 & thread 3 & thread 4, popular online community in china. Thousands of self appointed online inspectors have been mobilized, and traces quickly emerged within days.
Because pornography is a crime punishable with jail time, the website operates only in Japanese and English. The site is also indexed in Korean. Paid members can access child porn pictures at $15 per month. The pictures of a group of underage female students age 9-15 demonstrating kung fu skills in bikini were taken in a martial art school settlement, most likely organized by the school officials. The websites are registered by a person live in Florida.
The child porn site is registered by Endless forest, Inc, by its CEO Mr. Yan Gaofei, contact EMail time1116@yahoo.com. 'Yan' post a message at the CPTTM IT support forum, seeking help on billing method for a child porn site. Max Yan also post message on a Japanese porn site seeking business partners. Evidents show that Mr. Yan visited the Shaolin Kids School in Boai County, Henan Province in May 2004.
The billing solution is supplied by Ticketsclub coupled with Verotel. Club members information is kept in servers in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
By examining the EXIF info of the child porn pictures, we can tell the pictures were taken in January and June 2002, May 2004, October and November 2005, and March 2006. Cameras used include Canon Powershot S400, Olympus C720UZ and Canon Powershot S2 IS.
There is a disclaimer on the website that although it contains underage pornography, they have consents of the girls or their legal guardians.
We are not sure about the law in Japan, but the above disclaimer clearly won't cover those operators' asses in the US. Among who the Florida resident Mr. Yan Gaofei, aka Max Yan. Mr. Gao is a martial art master, chair of the martial art association in Florida. His EMail is time1116@yahoo.com, which is also the contact method for the above child porn site. His ID at Jiaoyou8, a popular online dating service, is time1116. Mr. Yan has a personal website, which has been down after the rumors were spread out. Mr. Yan operates another website of martial art. The site is still accessible at this time. His contact EMail on the site is yujz1116@yahoo.com. The Endless Forest Inc is registered in Hollywood, FL. A biography of Mr. Yan in Germany can be seen at a Chen-Taiji site. Some pictures of his Kongfu demonstration can be seen here.
It has been a grass-root movement in Chinese online community to hunt down the criminal. If you are a law enforcement officer, please take note.
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