You don't know how many people have been caught up in this, or the success rates of the investigations or prosecutions. The legal documentation is suppressed. We know about it because of errors in the suppression, not because the information is openly shared.
The fact they go after "major CP distributors" and not the average visitor doesn't mean the IP of the average visitor has not been compromised. It's called triage, and anyone who has been paying attention to mass investigations and mass arrests understands how it works. First they get your IP, then they identify through government databases likely targets. They focus on those who will give the biggest bang for their investigatory buck: child care workers, teachers, scout leaders, judges, etc. in addition to those who are at the epicenter of such activities, like the admins and moderators and biggest contributors.
As for the rest, these do not necessarily merely slip like sand between the fingers of the state. We know that in the UK there are so many targets of investigation, they gave up on "low risk" types, preferring to accept a restraining order of sorts plus time on the sex offender registry in lieu of an actual trial. That's where a significant number of the "unimportant" cases end up.
The Azov case showed that if arrests did not follow, then entrapment did.
I'm not sure why you're so "it's concerning, but...". It's concerning, full stop, and not only for "major CP distributors" but for anyone who relies upon the Tor network for anonymity.
The lesson everyone should be taking from this news is GET OUT OF THE POOL. The time to get out was 2017. We're 6 years into "it won't happen to me because...". Eventually it does happen to you.
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