The UK's Internet Censorship group backs down. Unfortunately, the complicated issues that are raised by the existence of this infrastructure and the way that it is managed are not resolved by the fact that this particular controversy is over, and will inevitably rear their head again.

The IWF on Tuesday said that, "in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove the webpage from our list."

AFAIK, no law about images like this makes that sort of distinction.

"IWF's overriding objective is to minimize the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect," the group said in a statement