Not all victims profit, with some children ending up as pornographic commodities inadvertently, even unknowingly. But there are other beneficiaries, including businesses, some witting and some unwitting, that provide services to the sites like Web hosting and payment processing. Many teenagers solicit "donations," request gifts through sites like or negotiate payments, while a smaller number charge monthly fees. If children respond to messages, adults spend time "grooming" them - with praise, attention and gifts - before seeking to persuade them to film themselves pornographically. In this virtual universe, adults hunt for minors on legitimate sites used by Webcam owners who post contact information in hopes of attracting friends.
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It is, in the words of one teenage site operator, the "Webcam Matrix," a reference to the movie in which a computerized world exists without the knowledge of most of humanity.
Minors who run these sites find their anonymity amusing, joking that their customers may be the only adults who know of their activities. "But this is a variation on a theme that we haven't seen. Allen, chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a private group. "We've been aware of the use of the Webcam and its potential use by exploiters," said Ernest E. While experts with these groups said they had witnessed a recent deluge of illicit, self-generated Webcam images, they had not known of the evolution of sites where minors sold images of themselves for money. Eager customers can even buy "private shows," in which teenagers sexually perform while following real-time instructions.Ī six-month investigation by The New York Times into this corner of the Internet found that such sites had emerged largely without attracting the attention of law enforcement or youth protection organizations. In this world, adolescents announce schedules of their next masturbation for customers who pay fees for the performance or monthly subscription charges. The business has created youthful Internet pornography stars - with nicknames like Riotboyy, Miss Honey and Gigglez - whose images are traded online long after their sites have vanished. And they perform from the privacy of home, while parents are nearby, beyond their children's closed bedroom doors. Minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening for-pay pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams. Justin's dark coming-of-age story is a collateral effect of recent technological advances. From the seduction that began that day, this soccer-playing honor roll student was drawn into performing in front of the Webcam - undressing, showering, masturbating and even having sex - for an audience of more than 1,500 people who paid him, over the years, hundreds of thousands of dollars. So began the secret life of a teenager who was lured into selling images of his body on the Internet over the course of five years. "So, I was kind of like, what's the difference?"
"I figured, I took off my shirt at the pool for nothing," he said recently. The man explained that Justin could receive the money instantly and helped him open an account on, an online payment system. Now, on an afternoon in 2000, one member of his audience sent a proposal: he would pay Justin $50 to sit bare-chested in front of his Webcam for three minutes. To Justin, they seemed just like friends, ready with compliments and always offering gifts. Instead, he heard only from men who chatted with him by instant message as they watched his image on the Internet. Weeks before, Justin had hooked up a Web camera to his computer, hoping to use it to meet other teenagers online. But on this day, Justin Berry's fascination with cyberspace would change his life. He had never run with the popular crowd and long ago had turned to the Internet for the friends he craved. The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen.
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