What happens when a concept that suggests the actual movement of people is taken into the virtual world of the web? What happens when trafficking is combined with information and communication technologies (ICTs)?
In a US case reported by a Council of Europe expert group, Japanese women were brought to Honolulu, Hawaii, to do live performances on the internet for audiences in Japan. "Due to more restrictive pornography laws in Japan," the group explains, "the men decided to operate the website from Hawaii and broadcast the live shows back to Japan. The women performed strip shows by webcam and responded to requests from men watching in Japan. They used wireless keyboards for live sex chat with the men at a rate of US$1/ minute. The Japanese men used digital cameras to capture the live video chat, then transmitted it to a server in California run by a 'not respectable, but not illegal' Internet Service Provider (ISP). Japanese viewers accessed the performance through the California server," thus avoiding Japanese regulations.
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