Does this happen often?

Whoever said you were?

From police:

"Dear Ms Lowan,

Thank you for contacting South Australia Police. Your request was forwarded
through to the appropriate areas for response.

I have been told today that these sites were identified as being in Europe
and the Australian High Tech Crime Centre has been advised. These sites have
subsequently been taken down.

Should you receive any further emails of this type please contact our
Commercial and Electronic Crime Branch on email [email protected]"


Yay!!!!

That´s typical for those criminals, to cover its tracks.

Hmm - I would have assumed they had been taken down by police?

Nope, look also here

Borges theorized that Judas was part of God's plan and may have even been Christ himself.

Anyway, are laws about internet content only enforcable according to the laws of the country in which the site is hosted? If so, could a country that has not made child pornography illegal (if there even are any) be the home for many such shocking sites, and would these sites be untouchable there?

yes, but overall the internet laws are debatable.
We need probably in general a cyper police.

Some leading criminal justice researchers have proposed global police systems or international laws for certain infractions. They have cited inferior technological capabilities of many nations as the biggest set-back, other than the reluctancy of many nations to even favor such a proposal, naturally.

To me, it seems like laws of this nature against things like child pornography would be among the easiest to enforce. But then there is also the debate about various freedoms, such as speech and expression, that many countries value. Of course, I don't think that child pornography fits the conditions of free speech or expressions, but you can still see how there might be issues somewhere, especially with the specifics.

All in all, a global set of laws is a complicated yet interesting matter in general.