Dark Web Mapping Reveals That Half of the Content Is Legal (helpnetsecurity.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Cyber threat intelligence firm Intelliagg and dark net indexing company Darksum have released the results of their efforts to map the dark web (actually, only the Tor network). They discovered that Tor network is much smaller than commonly thought, and that around 68% of the sites analyzed can be classified as illegal under UK and US law. In related news, a recent poll found that the vast majority of people want a ban on the dark net.

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Squiddie

[Squiddie]

My guess is that a large part of that is simple copyright infringement or other such things. The "illegal content problem" is not really a problem. It's just people afraid of free speech and sharing of information.

Not really accurate.

[BarbaraHudson]

Al they're saying is half the content that they could find is legal ... it's called the dark web for a reason. If they could find it all, it wouldn't be the dark web. And what they did find couldn't be all that dark - after all, they found it.

W/o copyright, people would trade disassemblies

[tepples]

If copyright didn't apply to computer programs, and this applied to both Sony Computer Entertainment and the free software community, there would be no need for copyleft. Instead, people could just make and share commented disassemblies of proprietary software. This already happens underground.

Re:Article says 68%, not 48%

[TroII]

No kidding. Remember, the UK recently made porn that depicts face-sitting or female squirting illegal. As well, the UK doesn't have the free speech protections that America does, and America doesn't always have the free speech protections it's supposed to. What I find most interesting is that porno/fetish only makes up about 1% of .onion sites and drugs account for only 4%. Listening to the media, the "dark web" is 110% child porn and 93% drug trafficking, which adds up to 451% illegal. It is of course no wonder that most people surveyed want it shut down.