Texas Man busted with 58tb of CP - In effort to finally one up Florida Man

https://bnonews.com/site/index.php/2018/05/texas-man-arrested-with-58tb-of-child-porn/

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A man in Texas has been arrested with up to 58 terabytes of child pornography, local authorities said on Thursday. Only few details about the case have been released.

The man, identified as 39-year-old Richard Belden, was arrested on Tuesday when officers executed a search warrant at his home in Allen, a city about 23 miles (38 kilometers) northeast of Dallas.

“Several electronic devices were seized which contained approximately 58 Terabytes of data related to child pornography,” the Collin County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

Belden was taken into custody for possession of child pornography and taken to the Collin County Jail. Details about the case were not immediately released, and investigators declined to say whether any of the child porn was created by Belden himself.

The case could mark one of the largest seizures of child pornography from a single person, although specific records are not available. 58 terabytes is the equivalent of 58,000 gigabytes, or more than 12,300 DVDs.

Apparently his bond is set for $2.7million.

Good goddamn.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't just a child porn hoarder (how many *regular* porn hoarders do you think have a 58 TB stashes?) but an active member of child abuse ring, possibly the ringmaster himself.

Getting 58 TB of info is a lot faster if you get it straight from the camera instead of downloading from the darknet.

 

[Lunete]

He looks almost exactly what I imagined he would.
All he's missing is a neck beard.

 

[Bassomatic]

I know late to the party but insert a log comment here.

I'm just glad this scum bag was caught I hope they offer him a sweet heart deal to name where he got it and who he shared with and forget to put him in PC so he's promptly raped and murdered.

I'm beyond disgusted to think this isn't all the CP in the world and it's more than I ever dreamed. I liked to tell myself it's this gross tiny subsection with a few old pedos sharing floppy disks, but now this reaffirms it's not that.

It's a shame pedos can only die once.

 

[m0rnutz]

Son of a fuck.

Get a fucking rubber butt jesus christ man

 

[MG 620]

I'm pretty sure the guy wasn't just a child porn hoarder (how many *regular* porn hoarders do you think have a 58 TB stashes?) but an active member of child abuse ring, possibly the ringmaster himself.

Could this be related to the recent closure of the filelocker Depfile?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/8k0ssp/depfile_owner_arrested/

 

[SwanDive]

His download speed must be through the fucking roof.

 

[vhstape]

Dude even has the pedo look down

 

[Racist Trash]

58tb is fucking insane, it's like those people who say they drink 20 cans of pepsi a day everyday how do you even find the time to do that?

 

[usernames can change now!]

So who's the poor son of a bitch intern who's going to have to watch 58 terabytes of child porn to confirm it's CP and identify victims? Jesus fucking Christ.

 

[Nazi vegeta]

he must have spent a fortune in hdd.
Now I imagine how happy the poor soul, who will have to check all of that, is gonna be.

 

[TwinGirl]

58tb!
that can't be realistic. how does one even hoard that much? A lot of regular porn sites don't even have that much content.

 

[vhstape]

Some poor cop is going to have to watch all that CP trying to find sick fucks

 

[RK 091]

58TB? That's got to be an aggregate , 58TB is absurd. I would guess that including encrypted backups and copies on second devices. For the sake of my own sanity, I'm going to assume most of it was duplicates. The alternative is too horrific.

 

[Male Idiot]

Here is the police officer that will investigate it, we got him from Japan they say he is an expert.

How the fuck do you get that much data of anything, much less cp?

I got barely 1tb of games and movies and books and music. Which are all if not legal but at least easy to find.

This guy must be a ringleader.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

58TB is absurd.

Back in the 1980s, 58 KB was kind of large, and 58 MB was like a high capacity hard drive. What would people back then think if they somehow read this disturbing news from the future?

 

[TheClorax]

Plot Twist: He unknowingly got his computer from Shädman.

 

[Porker LeVance]

Age 39, maybe he started the collection in his teen years... If he started stockpiling it in the mid 90's this could be over 20 years of illegal CP.

 

[Derp Potato]

I would not wanna be the agents stuck with reviewing up to 20 fucking years of child porn.

The only brightside to it is finding the children that were abused and the sick fucks who did the abusing.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Yeah I gotta say it's probably not 58 TB of CP but 58 TB of stuff and childporn in-between. Else that makes no sense.

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I doubt all that is illegal porn, if so I can't imagine him not being caught earlier. He's probably a "gotta download it all" porn hoarder. Imagine having to go through all that, the cops probably have programs to do it for them.

The FBI does. They have a program that scans images and videos against known child porn and it’ll match.
Of course, that means they still have to sort and log new child porn.
But if I remember right, they even use it with google and Microsoft so that it’s immediately flagged when someone tries to upload it through their services.