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Playpen was a darknet child pornography website that operated from August 2014 to March 2015. [1] [2] The website operated through the Tor network which allowed users to use the website anonymously. After running the website for 6 months, the website owner Steven W. Chase was arrested by the FBI.
The dark web, also known as darknet websites, are accessible only through networks such as Tor ("The Onion Routing" project) that are created specifically for the dark web. [ 12 ] [ 15 ] Tor browser and Tor-accessible sites are widely used among the darknet users and can be identified by the domain ".onion". [ 16 ]
archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2] Demonoid – Torrent [3] Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4] Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles [5]
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Since ARPANET, the usage of dark net has expanded to include friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor. [8] [9] The reciprocal term for a darknet is a clearnet or the surface web when referring to content indexable by search engines. [10]
Sometimes "clearnet" is used as a synonym for "surface web"—excluding both the darknet and the deep web. The World Wide Web is one of the most popular distributed services on the Internet, and the surface web is composed of the web pages and databases that are indexed by traditional search engines .
Playpen: Playpen, a piece of furniture for an infant or young toddler; Playpen (school), an English-medium education school in Bangladesh; Playpen (website), a darknet child pornography site; It can also refer to: Exercise pen, sometimes called a playpen for pets
The suspects allegedly acted as administrators for the website and gave advice to its users on how to evade law enforcement while using the platform. [2] Another suspect was a 64-year-old man from Hamburg who was accused of being one of the most active users uploading over 3,500 posts. [2] [6] The public and the press were excluded from the trial.