The model you give is one possibility, but directly paying for the creation of CP would still be illegal in a libertarian world. What would not be illegal is for me to go to a hidden service, copy some CP, and charge people to buy it from me. Libertarians recognize that there is a difference between these two things, whereas you want both to be illegal in order to do a better job at preventing one. Libertarians do not sacrifice freedom in order to provide security, so they will not sacrifice the freedom of a person to sell CP for money in order to protect from people illegally paying for the creation of child pornography. I am a strong believer in science as being more beneficial to humans than religion. I am not a believer in any religion, and consider myself to be a doubtful agnostic. I do not consider myself to be an atheist, as if God or some other deity comes to me and performs some miracles or gives me any good reason to believe, I would be open to believing. That said, I find the probability of this happening to approach zero, and thus I am quite close to an atheist. An atheist may say that they know God does not exist, or that they have no opinion regarding the existence of God, where as I would say I highly doubt that God exists and I currently believe that all religions are incorrect.  That said, I respect peoples right to have incorrect opinions. You seem to want to force people to know the truth, whereas I am more interested in letting people believe lies if they so choose. I believe that parents have a right to teach their children whatever they please, and although it is unfortunate that some people will choose to teach their children only religious dogma, I do not think that I have any right to force them to stop doing this. In a way my belief in the correctness of the scientific process is subjective, although to me it is clearly real it could just as well appear to someone else as flawed. They may think that the devil planted the dinosaur bones we find, in an attempt to weaken peoples belief in God. Do I think that this happened? Of course I do not. Can I prove that it did not happen? Well, not with certainty, although I certainly think that there is extremely strong evidence against it. I am a very doubtful agnostic. The thing is I do not side with anyone, rather I side with everyone. Everyone should be free to teach their kids whatever they want. Nobody is teaching my kids to learn creationism however I do believe it is still being taught in some of its various forms at some public schools in the United States. The most recent incarnation I am aware of was Intelligent Design, which was being taught at some public schools not that long ago. Perhaps the courts squashed that as well, but I have little doubt that the creationists will just repackage it again as they have been doing for a very long time now. And the religious people say that to not take a stand when innocent children are being sent to hell is deplorable. I highly believe that they are wrong in their beliefs, but I strongly believe that it is their right to teach their children whatever they want and that it is no business of mine. I think that teaching science to all students would be a great thing. I do not think that forcing all students to learn science is a good thing. I do not think that forcing religious people to have their children taught science is a good thing. I do not think that there would be utter chaos in curriculum in a libertarian world, I believe that a majority of people would want their children to be taught science. Sure children can believe whatever they want to. Additionally, they are free to get information from external sources. However, I do not believe that it is right to force parents to provide their children with any particular type of curriculum. Well actually I think I just have shown that there is no such clear link. If I go to a hidden service CP site and get some CP for free, and then sell that CP to you, the finances you have sent to me did not fund child molestation. In fact, the child molestation could have already taken place many years prior to anyone paying for the resulting child porn, and the producer and child could even both be dead. Except it isn't an issue!!! I have never had trouble finding what I am looking for on P2P / Torrents , maybe I just don't look for enough things to notice though. I just don't see it happening. The last commercial CP operation charged $100 for access, $100 * 30,000 customers = $3,000,000 profits in total. The demand for CP would need to be 166 times what it was during their operation, for that $500,000,000 market to exist. Really? If I go download some CP from Tor right now, and then I sell that to you, I have inherently put money into the pocket of a producer? Nope. That is the reason why libertarians are against criminalizing the payment for child pornography, because it does not inherently lead to producers being paid to molest children. In cases where distributors are directly paying producers to molest children, libertarians are against this. However, they do not think it should be illegal if I download CP from Tor and sell it to put money into my pocket, only if I pay the people producing to continue producing. Actually it isn't like I explained once again. The thing I am saying is that if CP is distributed only with private information retrieval, the demand is all but impossible to determine. If the demand for something is impossible for anyone to determine, then it cannot be demand that drives CP distribution. Also with no price there is no product is complete bullshit, have you never heard of open source software? Also are you oblivious to the fact that a huge amount of CP is produced with absolutely no commercial intentions? I would hesitate to say the vast majority of CP is not produced with commercial intentions only because of the sheer amount of softcore CP produced by the Eastern European studios, but certainly a very large percentage of CP was not produced with a financial motivation, and with the eastern European studios all shut down and no production studios currently in operation, it is safe to say that hardly any CP produced since the mid 2000s was produced with commercialization in mind.