John Curran wrote:
but I would note that there is rather significant prosecution efforts (and successes) today against CSAM production and distribution,
For amateur production and distribution, perhaps.
Perhaps I misunderstood, and there’s a more coherent formulation of why countermeasures are likely to "to increase the distribution and production of CSAM and with it the number of victims” – if so, can you elaborate?
Because prosecution efforts against amateurs trading CSAM purchased from commercial CSAM productions protect business of CSAM industry. Masataka Ohta