'Revenge porn' operator gets 18 years in prison

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Originally Posted by Schroeder

I agreee with Nippelspanner (he's German after all...oh wait...that has nothing to do with it....). I think it's safe to say that the pictures were taken for private use only. The guys (and perhaps girls) had no right whatsoever to put them online.

So what point did you miss about me telling exactly that?
Didn't I say that the sentence he should've gotten was that for extortion and blackmailing instead of identity theft as he wasn't the one who uploaded the content and info about the victim?

Though I agree that one should always be aware of the risks of such pictures.

Reason I don't really feel pitty for the ones that have been put up there, unless ofcourse the pictures where taken without their knowledge or consent.

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Not at all.
The law was broken, there is a victim and a perpetrator.
By saying "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!" you shove the guilt and responsibility for the crime/abuse/misuse upon the victim.

While my comparison sure is extreme, it still relies on the very same principles.

Yes the law was broken and you've got a victim and a perpetrator, you get the same with a DUI and a traffic accident with death or severe injury of a 3th party as a result.
But he comparison of a Rape victim and a victim of her/his own naivety?
No it doesn't stack up as being the same thing.

First of all you're responsible for all matters of your own privacy, if you do no want sensitive content you've created with your partner to go out on the web then do not create it. There's a whole campaign going on in the Netherlands for example to warn youngers to not do such a thing in the first place.

With a rape victim anything that happened to her is against her will and with no meaning or ability to defend herself from it. No blame can ever come to her. (or him in the rare cases)

This is where the victims of the above fall through if the pictures where taken willingly, they could easily defend themselves and could easily been spared from it by not having allowed for the content to be created in the first place.