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California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website
cold fjord writes "Yahoo reports, 'A California man was arrested on Tuesday on accusations he ran a 'revenge porn' website, one that featured nude pictures of women often posted by jilted or angry ex-lovers ... The San Diego arrest, the latest action by the state to crack down on such websites, comes after California Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-in-the-nation law in October specifically targeting revenge porn. The law defines revenge porn as the posting of private, explicit photos of other people on the Internet to humiliate them. But authorities did not charge 27-year-old Kevin Bollaert under that law, because it is geared to those who post the incriminating pictures and not those who run websites that feature them .... Bollaert's site, which is no longer operational, had featured over 10,000 sexually explicit photos, and he charged women up to $350 each to remove their photos, officials said. ... Bollaert was charged under a California identity theft law that prohibits using identifying information of a person without their permission, and under anti-extortion legislation, according to court documents. Unlike many other revenge porn websites, Bollaert's site had required users post the photo subject's full name, location, age and a link to the person's Facebook profile, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement.'"
Pics or it didn't happen.
No, really, it didn't happen if there aren't any.
*DUCKS*
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
He should turn over all of his submission records, in essence handing over the information on hundreds of men who could be charged for posting the photos. They would probably offer him quite the plea deal if he were to do this.
So he wasn't arrested for running the website at all. He was arrested for blackmail. That headline isn't just misleading, it's factually incorrect. He was arrested because of it, but not for it.
Scumbag
. Bollaert was charged under a California identity theft law that prohibits using identifying information of a person without their permission
Quick, sue the NSA.
That's your life in this day and age. Anyone who doesn't assume that everything s/he says or does will somehow end up online, especially if there is visual evidence of the deed, is just an idiot. Maybe sites like this serve a purpose in society by taxing the stupid into learning a life lesson or twelve.
Charging ppl $350 a pop to remove their photos for which they did not give permission to post? Yeah, go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.
What the hell was this guy thinking? His entire business model is based on extortion and it's all freely available to see on the web. At least when the mob tries to shake down a store or throws bricks through the window they don't tweet about it. I can't even begin to understand this guy's logic; he was just begging to get caught.
Does this mean that I write on the bathroom stall "For a good time call Jenny, 867-5309", along with crudely drawn genitalia, that I now can be prosecuted for identity theft?
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Is there any amendment that the liberals that run that state won't trash?
So basically he was running an extortion racket?
At the end of the day, you're posting intimate pictures of someone without their permission and without a model release, so I don't have a lot of sympathy for this guy. If the rest of the porn industry needs to keep model releases and the like on file, why wouldn't he?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
This is textbook blackmail and extortion, and has nothing to do with technology whatsoever.
7 December 2013
http://cryptome.org/2013/12/tor-anon-access.htm
"I was thinking about whether anonymous access to the first server, however desirable, might or might not be attainable."
. . . .the older brothers and fathers of the young ladies "exposed" on the website would stop by and have a "chat" with the guy. The site would then go offline very soon thereafter. . . either because he was sufficiently scared, or he was laid up in the hospital, and couldn't pay the hosting bill. . .
Dont see how he could possibly be in compliance. 2257 might end up biting him harder than the california charges.
So guesshermuff is no more?
My mother and her present boyfriend had been getting trouble from her boyfriends brother, including a smashed front window to name one.
Long story short, he's been reported many times for various offences they told me about, most recent being he was using said information for financial-related websites, including reselling websites for 2nd-hand goods. So he ended up getting loads of messages about goods he never had.
By the sounds of the other things he has done, he has to be nominated to appear on those TV Shows, you know the ones, the worlds dumbest criminals, those kinds, he is seriously thick, so god damn thick.
While I would love to mention other things, obviously can't.
He is so determined to get put in prison.
I am making the assumption the photos were taken legality and not by trespassing or some illegal means. If this is the case why is this illegal?
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
Mod me down as a troll, but I'm going to call your stupid and asinine statement out. I _want_ to live in a world where my girlfriend, or certain adventurous female friends of mine, feel safe in sending me nudie pics on my phone, and do so because they feel they can without fear of reprisal, revenge, blackmail, or hacking. Because a world like that means that YOU, and every other man out there can also reap that kind of benefit.
What's stupid, is asshats like Kevin Bollaert and others like him slut-shaming women for the lulz, and then profiting via blackmail. When that shit happens, then women don't feel safe in sending nudie pics to men they trust, and we don't get to see them. So I damn well hope they throw the book at him, and I damn well hope we can reverse this trend, because I'd personally like to receive more nudie pics from happy, well-adjusted women with roaring sex drives and a desire for a little exhibitionistic titillation.
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
It's Blackmail!
Hello, good evening, and welcome to 'Blackmail'! And to start tonight's program, we go to Preston in Lancashire, and Mrs Betty Teal!
Hello, Mrs Teal!
Now this is for £15 and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton.
So Mrs Teal...if you send us £15 by return post, please, and your husband Trevor, and your lovely children, Diane, Janice and Juliet need never know the name of your lover in Bolton.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
But my immediate thought was...good. We have freedom beyond belief but some things are not allowed. CP Someone else's PI.
"Bollaert was charged under a California identity theft law that prohibits using identifying information of a person without their permission, and under anti-extortion legislation, according to court documents."
What is this Identifying Information? I understand the extortion charge but not this. This charge (and probably the law cited) doesn't make sense to me unless it means that I can charge my phone company, bank and any credit rating agency for use of my "identifying information" as well. And what does that say about the NSA, are they co-conspiritorial voyeurs?
Bollaert a "slime of the times."
For deeper comentary, this was on On The Media last week (http://www.onthemedia.org/2013/dec/). My favorite part is when Bollaert said he wouldn't post pics of his Mom or sister because that was gross....
Your ex is a bitch, but Karma is a bigger bitch. Multiply that by all the users on the web site. He's lucky the law got to him first.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Here's the link to the Arrest Warrant: http://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press_releases/Arrest%20warrant_0.pdf
I'm the only one that thinks this being illegal is ridiculous.
Do we honestly have to protect women from their own stupidity (in giving nude pictures to people that will post them online when they break up)? Because in doing so, we are just exacerbating that stupidity. And if women are of equal intelligence to men, then they shouldn't need a law that protects them from such stupidity (and while I realize that the law covers both genders, I don't see men getting into this same situation). I say get rid of the law that makes "revenge porn" illegal, and let the women pay the fee to have their pics removed, so that they can learn their lesson, and other women will not continue to be stupid (in that way) with the idea that they have the safety net of the law.
thats what usenets for genius.
I'm just banking on this dudes, eh eh? It worked for Whitey Bulgar....I bet this webmaster's wife set him up this way so to bill any boyfriend likewise if they would ever post revenge porn of their gf's.
"Some people say there's a woman to blame..."..."
All public record information. Posting this information is not violating their privacy.
Go go wayback machine!
Catch someone infringing on your copyright or patent and offer to settle out of court for a fee. OK.
Post someones private information and nude photos and try and extort $350 for removing them. Not OK
So we're still talking about these sites as if all the pictures are from angry exes? The last big one of these sites to go down was found in large part to be made up of photos stolen from hacked email accounts by strangers who enjoyed ruining random women's lives.
Could it possibly have anything to do with our Jewish 'masters'? Of course not...
Why don't you let someone unknown place your naked picture(s) on web sites and post your personal information online
for all to see. And if you don't like what that person is doing just pay them to remove it.
Or your mother, wife, sister, girl friend, dad, etc.
Your response is so full of crap.
So the bankers, etc that cause the last recession aren't as bad as someone that would walk into a bank with a
gun. The bankers caused trillions of dollars of damage! And the bank robber with a gun, 98% + are caught.
I really hope you become a victim some day and really experience how it feels.
I get that the pictures aren't nude pictures of people, but they are compromising pictures. Mugshots.com requires you to pay $400 per picture to have them removed. They also do search engine optimization to get the results to the top of searches.
Never a good business plan, if you do it in public.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I posted a naked picture of myself online.
Occasionally I send the URL to people that haven't seen it before just to shock them. They ALWAYS view it, even though I clearly indicate that it's me, it's naked, and it's a file with 'naked' in the filename.
However, someone posts my full name, address, pictures and other details and I don't like it.. I'll use the DPA against them.
This is one reason I don't exist on Facebook. It's rather lovely.
With this law we wouldn't have Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. On the other hand - this is a good law.