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sites where the users can buy illegal goods or services.

Red Rooms Explained:
Red Rooms Explained:
The name “Red Rooms” is believed to have been derived from Videodrome,

a 1983 horror movie in which the torture is shown live on a TV in a room
painted all red. As mentioned earlier, the red rooms are video portals with

the kind of videos depicting violence and pain. Child pornography, imagi-
nary live streams (the browsing speeds on the dark web are considered too

slow for them to be live) of murder and rape, torture, etc. are some of the
contents available on red rooms. Some red rooms also allow the users to

“chat” with other like-minded people, all while being anonymous.

But do Red Rooms exist?
But do Red Rooms exist?
Although Red Rooms have been a matter of discussion in various forums,

there are no pieces of evidence available that proves their existence. Peter
Scully’s case suggests the possibility of such sites or red rooms being avail-

able for the users to view illegal and gruesome videos or content. Scully
hails from Australia and is entitled as one among the world’s worst paedo-

philes. His modus operandi was luring indigent children by offering gifts
and money and then taking them to his home, in the Philippines. He would

then drug the children and film their torture and rape for an internation-
al paedophile ring. According to reports, he has sold his videos for over

$10,000 per view.

Some people suggest that red rooms are merely a myth or an urban leg-
end, and were invented through a Japanese horror movie called Red Room,

talking about a website that shows live streams of murder. They also point-
ed out that the user’s identity is concealed to gain access to such sites, and

for that purpose, multiple proxies and numerous layers of encryption are
required which makes the process too slow to allow live streaming. On the

other hand, a certain group of people argue that red rooms do exist and it is
possible to access them through certain specialized browsers. But, paying

huge amounts of money to watch gruesome acts is illegal and incriminat-
ing.

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