Revenge Porn Sleaze Gets 18 Years in Prison
In the country's toughest revenge porn ruling to date, UGotPosted operator Kevin Bollaert was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday, the L.A. Times reports.
Revenge Porn Dirtbag Plagiarizes Shark Tank Star
Every shitman deserves a second chance, right? Former revenge porn magnate Chance Trahan (that name!) is attempting to reinvent himself after his site, IsAnybodyDown, was shuttered. But he can't even start over again without exploiting someone else's life.
Revenge Porn Sleaze Craig Brittain Wants His Past Deleted from Google
Before it was shuttered by the federal government, IsAnyoneDown.com published naked photos of women without their consent. Now Craig Brittain, the site's former owner, is demanding that Google erase anything that mentions his history of brazen, mass privacy violation. That's so cute.
Notorious Revenge Porn Asshole Hunter Moore Is Finally Going to Prison
Hunter Moore, the inveterate troll whose website Is Anyone Up introduced the world to "revenge porn" in the early part of this decade, has pleaded guilty to hacking and ID theft, admitting he posted nude photos stolen from women's Gmail accounts, according to court documents obtained by Ars Technica.
This Revenge Porn Creep Is Going to Prison
Kevin Bollaert ruined the lives of many, many women, and he did it on purpose—the 28-year-old San Diego man ran a website that published stolen, naked photos and then charged victims to take them down. This week, he was found guilty of 27 felony charges.
That Type of Girl Deserves It
Every young woman I know was violated when the nude pictures of Jennifer Lawrence and other successful women were posted on the internet for public consumption against their will. Some of us reason that these young women deserve to be sexually and publicly violated because they created these images. We reason that we…
Maryland has become the latest state to get a revenge porn statute onto the books. Governor Martin O'Malley yesterday signed HB 43 into law. It makes the placement of nude photographs on the Internet without consent, and with the intent to cause emotional harm a misdemeanor punishable by two years in prison, or a…
Arizona Adds Revenge Porn Law to Its Books
This week Arizona's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed its anti-revenge-porn law onto the books. The Arizona law makes it a felony to "intentionally disclose, display, distribute, publish, advertise or offer a photograph, videotape, film or digital recording of another person in a state of nudity or engaged in…
Wisconsin Passes Anti-"Revenge Porn" Law
Yesterday Wisconsin's governor Scott Walker signed an anti-revenge porn bill into law, the third state to do so this year, after Idaho and Utah. The Wisconsin laws make it a misdemeanor to distribute (without consent) an image of a "nude or partially nude person or of a person engaging in sexually explicit conduct."
Utah became the latest state to put an anti-"revenge porn" law on its books yesterday. Its governor signed HB 71, a law "regarding distributing intimate images of a person without that person's permission." A first offense under the law will be a misdemeanor; subsequent violations will be punished as felonies.
The Case for Making Revenge Porn a Federal Crime
With Rep. Jackie Speier's announcement yesterday that she intends to introduce a federal bill criminalizing "revenge porn" into the house in the month, people were asking the same question they often ask about revenge porn: Why isn't this already illegal?
Rep. Jackie Speier has announced that she's going to introduce a bill criminalizing "revenge porn" into the House of Representatives next month. If and when she does, it will be the first effort to enact a federal law against revenge porn, or as others put it, "non-consensual pornography."
Christian School Suspends Teacher After Stolen Nude Pics Show Up Online
An Ohio woman who teaches at a private Christian prep school in the Cincinnati area was placed on administrative leave this week after having stolen nude photos of her posted on a "revenge porn" website.
Revenge Porn Law Proposed For New York State
Last week, California criminalized revenge porn. Now, New York state legislators are proposing a bill that would also target people who distribute nude photos of others without their consent. Unlike California's law, which can only be used to prosecute individuals who personally took naked photos of someone else and…
Hunter Moore on California's Revenge-Porn Law: "You Fucking Retards"
Earlier this week, California passed a law designed to criminalize revenge porn. Under this immediately effective legislation, any person who privately takes a consensual photo of another person nude, but then maliciously distributes the intimate image can be punished for up to six months in jail and/or $1,000 in…
If you're in the TriState area and would like to boat-rave with an Internet troll who's gotten a woman to brush her teeth with poop, tonight's your big chance. Rated R for "ratchet."
Storage Wars' Brandi Passante Awarded a Paltry $750 from Hunter Moore
Brandi Passante, one of the professional trash pickers on the A&E faux-reality competition Storage Wars, sued our old pal Hunter Moore last fall after he posted a nude video online of a woman he claimed was the reality star. A California judge finally ruled on the suit after Moore defaulted, awarding the reality star.…
Ex-Student Shoots Porn on Catholic School Grounds as 'Payback' [NSFW]
"Aspiring Internet porn performer" Valerie Dodds (porn name: Val MidWest) says she was constantly mocked by her fellow classmates at St. Pius X High School for her decision to enter the adult entertainment business.
One Woman's Crusade Against Revenge Porn
One of the most insidious aspects of revenge porn—the non-consensual erotica pioneered by the likes of Hunter Moore—is the fact that victims have typically had little legal recourse to stop porn websites from profiting off their most compromising images. But a new wave of revenge porn victims are speaking out and…
