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What would happen if I created an illegal site? CP or selling guns?


If you created and seeded long enough to get active traffic, the host and DHT peer IPs might be flagged by LE. Once flagged the IP info passed to different investigators for prosecution purposes. Depending on your level of anonymity (VPN, tor, none, other) the investigation is either a dead-end or success. If success, warrant granted, home searched, PC seized. That's one potential scenario.


But they can't take down the website?


People don’t have to use your website.


Presumably nobody would know it was yours until you added contact information to it.




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