People who have had cops show up at your house... what happened?

So there was this website that told you what files people had downloaded based on their IP address. It worked on my IP address and it showed on nearby IP addresses. I saw people downloading music and movies via torrent all good.

Then I just keep looking through. Eventually I read the file names on this certain IP address. Let’s just say the file names were easily identifiable as child pornography. The names were pretty vulgar and I remember them to this day. I googled the IP address and started comparing the results. I found out it was most likely coming from the high school near me.

Anyways I filed a report on the Internet to an organization dedicated to this kind of thing. It really bothered me though and I felt that wasn’t enough.

A little while later I end up calling the non emergency line to my local PD. I do my best to explain the situation to the person but they didn’t understand it. She said they probably wouldn’t want to come to see me about it. I figured that I did my part and that was that.

A day goes by and later in the day my brother and I are going out to get food. We get a call from my dad who’s freaking out asking why there’s police looking for me. So we hurry back home and there’s a couple of cops at my door. I try my best to explain the cops who are were technologically illiterate and show them how I found out on my laptop. I then show them the screencap I took of it. I then sent the cops an email with all the info I had and that was the last I heard.

Tl;dr: Found out someone was downloading CP and had cops show up to my house to ask me about it.

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