Spikes Asia

Stop Downloadkill

CHEIL, Seoul / METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE / 2018

Awards:

1 Bronze Spikes Asia
3 Shortlisted Spikes Asia
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Background

Hidden camera sex crime is a serious issue in South Korea. It has increased by 540% in the last 8 years. Even the president has come

forward pressing government ministries to resolve the issue of illegal voyeur videos.

Secretly filmed videos showing nude body parts of women, or women engaging in sexual acts are circulated online every day. The

victims of these videos endure great suffering, some of them even resorting to suicide. But South Korean law only penalizes those

filming the videos, not the ones watching them. So those who watch them do so without guilt.

How could we save the hidden camera victims when there is no law against the viewers? To combat the issue, the police created fake

hidden camera porn videos that viewers would never want to see again.

Execution

To directly deal with people downloading illegal voyeur videos, the Police Cybercrime Unit went undercover and entered the ‘online

black market' of such videos. Using dozens of different IDs and IP addresses to fool downloaders, they uploaded their fake voyeur

videos. From Oct.17 to Dec.17, 2017, a total of 3,500 fake voyeur videos were uploaded onto 23 file-sharing sites. For two months,

51,399 Peeping Toms downloaded the fake videos. The very moment the viewers watched the voyeur video, the police informed

them of the harm they were causing and gave them a stern warning.

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