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>The public can never see the blackmail tapes because it is illegal to view child porn.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but it seems to me that the law should be that it is illegal to promulgate "child sex abuse" material for prurient purposes.
It wouldn't necessarily be hard to prove a prurient purpose.
Obviously, there would be some moral hazard in making it legal to see such material in any way, but it seems highly overwhelmed by the positive good that could come from the damage that exposure of such material could due to those who are very often actively harming children.
It is currently literally illegal to see direct evidence of utterly heinous crimes, supposedly to "protect" the victims.
This is absurd on the surface, especially when there are pretty easy ways to protect the victims while enabling the catching and prosecution of the perps.
In reality, such material would be "banned" from the vast majority of the internet, as it is now.
But sites like 8kun could have dedicated boards where it is allowed, for the overt purpose of tracking down and preventing such crimes.
It is really no different from "gore" videos, which are legal, but which most people have no desire to see. There are still very real reasons why they should be legal, among others that they are often evidence of crimes.