'Revenge porn' operator gets 18 years in prison

[Onkel Neal]

Wow! Finally, some common sense and justice in this country.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/03/us/cal...nce/index.html

The owner of a now-offline "revenge porn" website based in California was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison, the San Diego office of the state's attorney general said.

Kevin Christopher Bollaert, 27, had been found guilty in February of six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft. He faced a maximum of 23 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Bollaert created a website that allowed people to post explicit images of people without their permission. The site also posted personal information of the people in the pictures without their consent, Attorney General Kamala Harris said.

The sexually explicit material, primarily of women, was routinely posted by angry former boyfriends and ex-husbands, authorities said. It contained their real names and links to their Facebook profiles.

Bollaert created a second website that solicited payments of $250 to $350 from people who wanted to have the photographs deleted. Bollaert made about $30,000 on that site, the attorney general's office said.

[Schroeder]

Does that put him on the sex offender list? Would be poetic justice.

Hahaha, that miserable scumbag, he might learn about a completely new kind of porn as well now!

Shower revenge sex.

[CaptainHaplo]

Had he not been trying to make money to remove the stuff - he wouldn't be in a cell. Someone with a brain and no morals will end up reversing the money side. If the pictures are legally obtained, and the ex then wants to post them publicly, one could charge a fee to upload them. A really smart operator would include in the TOS that the person pictured could request, via link/direct email - to have the data removed. If such a request was received, the removal would be at no charge.

This would remove the legal issues for the operator. Provided of course that he didn't commit identity theft as well....

Note - I do not support such a morally reprehensible action, just analyzing the legal argument.

[Jimbuna]

An appropriate sentence, totally befitting the crime

[Dowly]

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Now what the hell
I'm going to masturbate to?


(Seriously though, good riddance.)

[Herr-Berbunch]

If you don't want nudie pics of yourself ever to see the light of day then don't take them in the first place!

This applies to everyone, including 'celebs'.

Whilst the site is morally wrong it's the uploader that should experience the full extent of the law. The guy was just cashing in on stupidity.

[Onkel Neal]

Oh, I agree, but to monetize a system of revenge and extortion, whew! That's pretty bad.

[AVGWarhawk]

Got to hand it to him for the entrepreneurial spirit but this is a bit overboard.

[GoldenRivet]

I have a number of nude photos of my ex girlfriend. She is a cute, petite red head with emerald green eyes

I would never post her pictures freely on a revenge site that would use them to exploit her.



I'll do it myself

bidding starts at $5 each

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

I have a number of nude photos of my ex girlfriend. She is a cute, petite red head with emerald green eyes

I would never post her pictures freely on a revenge site that would use them to exploit her.



I'll do it myself

bidding starts at $5 each

Beat me to it....the punchline

[Schroeder]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

I'll do it myself

bidding starts at $5 each

Is there a discount for bundles or a special Easter offer?

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

If you don't want nudie pics of yourself ever to see the light of day then don't take them in the first place!

This applies to everyone, including 'celebs'.

Whilst the site is morally wrong it's the uploader that should experience the full extent of the law. The guy was just cashing in on stupidity.

Do you also blame victims of rape that they have been wearing too sexy clothes?

Putting material like this, without permission, online or share it in whatever way, is a criminal act. Period.

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Oh, I agree, but to monetize a system of revenge and extortion, whew! That's pretty bad.

Sounds like the government to me.....

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Do you also blame victims of rape that they have been wearing too sexy clothes?

Apples, Oranges.

Look if this was a case of some pervert who shot these pictures without the victim's consent or aware that they've been made and suddently being harrashed by it via blackmail that these pictures will appear online and stay there untill a sum of money has been paid then yes I would put the blame solely on the pervert.

Whilst probably most cases it was never the intent to have these appear online unlike some celebrities they where happily to make them on a device that can upload them to anywhere on the web or cloud which can be compromised.

Putting material like this, without permission, online or share it in whatever way, is a criminal act. Period.

He should've been sentenced for extortion and blackmailing not for cases of identity theft as he wasn't the one who uploaded them with the personal data.