In recent years child pornography is increasingly being created/manipulated by and distributed through electronic means via the internet and computer bulletin boards. While there has been little research into the Australian situation, a Swedish researcher found that over a seven day period in late December 1994, 5,651 messages of postings about child pornography were contained in four bulletin boards. Among the postings, about 800 were pictures of adults and adolescents engaged in sexual acts. The children looked between the ages of 8 and 10 years (The Nation 8/2/95).

An international investigation into child pornography on the internet found over 100 suspects being identified as users of a world wide child pornography bulletin board out of Denmark. Paedophiles paid about $100 to become members of the bulletin board which enabled them to download sexual images of children onto their home computers.

Don Huyke, one of the world's foremost authorities on child pornography and the senior supervising special agent for the US Customs Service told a police seminar held in Melbourne in 1995 that computer bulletin boards and other online services have become the new frontier for paedophiles. He stressed that governments and police needed to react swiftly to the growing threat of the electronic transfer of images of child sex by enacting new legislation and increasing their technical capabilities.

The introduction of now common technologies like the video camera and the video recorder gave a boost to the production of child pornography. The advantages of video material are clear:
conventional photos neede to be developed by third persons, there is a risk of detection. The sex exploiter becomes now the producer of his own, "tailor-made" pornography, being no longer dependent upon static photos. Videos can easily and quickly be copied.