Interpol already has a cyber narcotics division, but they primarily manage international operations against online pharmacies that pull in millions of dollars and compete with the pharmaceutical industry by disregarding intellectual property laws and FDA regulations. They generally are a major source of botnet funding / activity too, considering the massive amounts of spam they are behind. The FBI has done some major international operations against for profit CP sites, that are similar to adult porn sites but charge a membership fee. Reading about the security of these sites is always fun, they tend to use pretty shitty tactics but some are mildly impressive. The last really interesting one I read about used reverse proxies and money mule networks but the operators still were located and pwnt, I think they pulled in a few million in membership fees. When LE pwns one of these sites they tend to first covertly pwn the operators and then they gather customer intelligence for a period of months, followed by a massive internationally (usually interpol/europol) coordinated raid that pull in thousands or tens of thousands of buyers simultaneously. In the grand scheme of things the people using these sites almost never are pwnt with much CP compared to the trade groups, and they very rarely are part of distribution, but it doesn't stop LE from arresting them even if they bought a single picture. I guess it might not be a perfect analogy since CP is CP and drugs are drugs, but in for profit CP cases they do indeed carry out massive international operations that target even small time personal use customers. Part of me recognizes the difference between the two things, and part of me recognizes that mirror imaging is a common mistake in intelligence analysis, and that DEA agents may very well have a mentality that drug dealers and users are no better than CP purchasers. In my mind I can see a clear moral distinction, but it is probably not good to assume that the moral compass of the average DEA agent will mirror mine. Not to mention it is usually FBI pwning these CP sites and DEA has the *job* of pwning sites like SR, why should I think they will carry out their job to a lesser extent than the FBI carries out theirs?