Instructions: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Input: In February 2015, the FBI took control of Playpen, the largest dark web child pornography site at the time. But instead of shutting the site down, the agency kept it going for just under two weeks, in order to deliver malware to its visitors in the hope of identifying suspects in its investigation. 
  
 Newly filed court exhibits now suggest that the site performed substantially better while under the FBI's control, with users commenting on the improvements. The defense for the man accused of being the original administrator of Playpen claims that these improvements led to the site becoming even more popular. 
  
 “The FBI distributed child pornography to viewers and downloaders worldwide for nearly two weeks, until at least March 4, 2015, even working to improve the performance of the website beyond its original capability,” Peter Adolf, an assistant federal defender in the Western District of North Carolina, writes in a motion to have his client’s indictment thrown out. 
  
 “As a result, the number of visitors to Playpen while it was under Government control [increased] from an average of 11,000 weekly visitors to approximately 50,000 per week. During those two weeks, the website’s membership grew by over 30%, the number of unique weekly visitors to the site more than quadrupled, and approximately 200 videos, 9,000 images, and 13,000 links to child pornography were posted on the site,” he continues. 
  
 "Government agents worked hard to upgrade the website’s capability to distribute large amounts of child pornography quickly and efficiently" 
  
  
  
 According to archived messages on the Playpen site filed alongside Adolf’s motion, users were complaining of Playpen’s sluggish service around the time the site was taken over. 
  
 “I’ve been having trouble getting in here all day, took forever just to reply to this so guess there is still some server trouble. Wish all the best in getting in [sic] fixed,” one user called “verycute” wrote on February 21, 2015. 
  
 Shortly after, on February 23, someone in control of a Playpen administrator account wrote, “I upgraded the Token Ring to Ethernet about an hour ago and things seem to be working a bit better.” (A Token ring is a particular type network configuration). 
  
 It is not totally clear whether the FBI was in control of this account, though this is what Adolf insinuates. 
  
 Regardless, users soon noticed the effects of the tweak. 
  
 “Yes, it is working much better now!” one user replied. 
  
 “Working FAST today :-)” another wrote. 
  
 “It now runs everything very smoothly! :D” a third replied. “Hopefully it will remain so! ???” 
  
 Image: a screenshot of an archived version of a thread on Playpen which was included with court documents 
  
 Adolf’s motion continues, “Indeed, government agents worked hard to upgrade the website’s capability to distribute large amounts of child pornography quickly and efficiently, resulting in more users receiving more child pornography faster than they ever did when the website was running ‘illegally.’” 
  
 This is where Adolf’s argument for why his client’s indictment should be thrown out comes in: Echoing the defense team in another case, he says the FBI engaged in “outrageous conduct” by distributing child pornography on a massive scale. Such activity by government agents in an investigation could lead to dismissal of charges if, as Adolf writes, the conduct is “shocking” or “offensive to traditional notions of fundamental fairness.” (A judge previously ruled that the operation did not equate to outrageous conduct.) 
  
 What is new here is the defense’s claim that the FBI deliberately improved the site’s functionality for its users, and that this in turn led to more people signing up to Playpen. Adolf does not provide any solid evidence for this apparent causality, but points to the archived Playpen messages which indicate improvements took place. 
  
 In July, the Department of Justice wrote in a court document that so far 186 people have been charged as part of this investigation. Motherboard found that the FBI hacked over 4,000 computers, including in countries as far afield as Chile and Austria. 
  
 In court documents from other related cases filed on Monday, defense attorneys placed a “conservative estimate” on the number of illegal images distributed by the FBI during its operation of Playpen: 1,000,000. 
  
 Christopher Allen, a spokesperson for the FBI, declined to comment on matters pending litigation. ||||| A federal jury today convicted a Naples, Florida, man of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and related charges for creating and running a website dedicated to the sexual abuse of children. 
  
 Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina; Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong of the FBI’s Charlotte, North Carolina, Division; Special Agent in Charge Harold H. Shaw of the FBI’s Boston Division; and Special Agent in Charge Paul Wysopal of the FBI’s Tampa, Florida, Division made the announcement. 
  
 Steven W. Chase, 57, was found guilty of one count of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, one count of advertising child pornography, three counts of transportation of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. The jury also returned a special verdict determining that Chase should be ordered to forfeit all property derived from, involved in, or traceable to his criminal activities, to include his Naples residence. 
  
 Evidence at trial established that Chase created and served as the primary administrator of a highly-sophisticated global enterprise dedicated to the sexual abuse of children, via a website that operated on the Tor anonymity network, through which he and more than 150,000 other members authored and viewed tens of thousands of postings involving child pornography. Images and videos shared through the website were highly categorized towards victim age and gender, as well as the type of sexual activity, according to trial evidence. Testimony at trial also established that website members employed advanced technological means in order to undermine law enforcement’s attempts to identify them, including the use of a hidden service on the Tor network and elaborate file encryption. 
  
 Chase was arrested following a court-authorized search of his home on Feb. 19, 2015. Forensic examination of a computer and devices seized pursuant to the search revealed that he was in possession of thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children as young as toddlers. 
  
 Chase’s co-defendants Michael Fluckiger, 46, of Portland, Indiana, and David Lynn Browning, 47, of Wooton, Kentucky, the co-administrator and global moderator of the website, respectively, pleaded guilty in December 2015 to engaging in a child exploitation enterprise for their roles in helping Chase run the website. 
  
 The FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children Section, Major Case Coordination Unit and Digital Analysis and Research Center led the investigation, with assistance from the FBI’s Charlotte, Tampa and Boston Field Offices. Trial Attorney Reginald E. Jones of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Cortney Randall of the Western District of North Carolina prosecuted the case. 
  
 This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc. |||||
Output:
For two weeks in early 2015, the FBI infiltrated a child porn website on the dark web and kept it running, hoping to use special software to ID users. Not only was the mission successful—nearly 190 people have been charged in the sting as of July, per the DOJ—but the FBI-operated Playpen got rave reviews from unaware users, noted Motherboard last month.The public defender for Steven Chase—the man found guilty by a federal court last Friday of running the site, per a DOJ release—argued the site improvements helped lure more people to sign up for Playpen, and that should have led to a dismissal of his client's indictment, according to a court filing. Just as the FBI started working on the site, Playpen did seem to be rife with complaints. "I've been having trouble getting in here all day," reads one archived message. That tune changed days later, with users noticeably perking up at the site's apparent fixes. "Working FAST today," one user gushed, with others enthusiastically agreeing. Chase's defender, Peter Adolf, says that during the FBI's two weeks at the helm, membership rose by more than 30% and the site's users jumped from a weekly average to 11,000 to 50,000, with hundreds more videos and thousands of images and child porn links posted to the site during the two-week period. In his motion, Adolf said the FBI's alleged site improvements spurred mass child-porn distribution "so outrageous as to shock the conscience of the court." Motherboard notes, though, that Adolf didn't really offer evidence the FBI's tweaks led to the member surge. Chase awaits sentencing.