The Royal Canadian Mounted Police partnered with half a dozen police forces in Canada's western prairies to identify suspects who possessed and distributed child abuse images across peer-to-peer file sharing networks.u00a0

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"With their activities, obviously they are using common file-sharing networks and common technology and common programs to chat and look for kids who possibly networked with other offenders but none of the individuals (arrested) were directly related (to each other)," a police spokesman told a nationally televised news conference yesterday.u00a0

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