‘Revenge Porn’ Mogul Busted by FBI in Computer Hacking Conspiracy

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Remember a couple years ago when “revenge porn” created a controversy with unauthorized nude photos of women being posted online? Turns out the guys didn’t get all those sexy pictures from embittered ex-boyfriends. Instead, according to a federal grand jury indictment, IsAnyoneUp.com founder Hunter Moore paid cash to a hacker who illegally gained access to online accounts where several of his female victims had uploaded their own photos:

Time is reporting that revenge porn magnate Hunter Moore has been arrested by FBI agents. Moore is the founder of Is Anyone Up, a now-defunct site infamous for posting nude pictures uploaded without the subject’s consent. The site has been accused of extortion multiple times, and Moore himself recently lost a quarter-million-dollar defamation suit over work connected with the project.
According to Time‘s Jessica Roy, the indictment names Moore and an accomplice named Charles Evens in a conspiracy to “access a protected computer without authorization to obtain information for private financial gain,” alongside other counts. The arrests were made in California, which recently passed a strict law specifically targeting revenge porn sites. There has also been a crackdown in prosecutions associated with the law. In December, 27-year-old Kevin Bolleart was charged with 31 felony counts for work on a similar site.

So the great “revenge porn” bubble has gone bust. Advice to women: No naked pictures, period. You think your boyfriend can be trusted to keep your naked selfies strictly private? You’re stupid.

 

35 comments

  1. So the question must be asked, is all porn equal? Is revenge porn bad, but teenage homosexual 6-way porn utilizing all orifices is good?

  7. And the answer is no. One(homosexual 6 way porn)involved consenting adults and signed releases, and the other was done without consent, and in order shame the young women in the photos. It’s amazing that you’re so hung up on the content of the acts while missing the simple fact that all that matters is legal consent. And let’s not have a dumb argument about someone consenting to let someone else murder them, please.

  9. And yes, some men can keep sex tapes and naked pics secret no matter how acrimonious the break up. I have dozens of sex tapes from an ex and have never even thought of posting them on the internet, even though I still hate this person to this very day.

  10. I was waiting for our self righteous apologist for all things perverted to make an appearance. Welcome!

    Has anyone told the left that they seriously lack a sense of humor?

  12. “Time is reporting…” Time magazine? The one formerly associated with the Luce family? That time?
    Is this a joke? Time doesn’t report squat. It re-transmits whatever the DNC tells it to.
    Seriously… is this “Time is reporting…” a joke?

  13. How do you know for certain everyone was of legal age, and had actually signed a consent contract? Norma Jean Kuzma signed similar, as I recall.

  15. Yeah, we lack of sense of humor. That coming from the people who still can’t handle a porn film is pretty hilarious. And what’s “perverse” is in the eye of the beholder. In other your moral standards(which sound quite rigid when it comes to sex)are your own.

  17. How do you know they weren’t all of legal age? Hmmmmmm? They’re a legal porn company that requires ID’s, records keeping, etc. and is regulated. Unless someone wants to go to prison for a few decades there is no reason they would break the law and knowingly hire an underage actor, especially when there are plenty of men of legal age looking to star in a porn film, whether it be gay or straight.

  18. You never answered the question. All you did was deflect in an attempt to turn the question back on the one asking – that’s not an answer.

    So, to quote someone from an earlier post “That’s your argument? Really?”

  20. Well, they say they are supporting a group of hard working American men and women…

    If it isn’t weird foriegn stuff.

  25. I don’t understand what you are snarking at him about. I have no such sex tapes, but every man has vivid memories (if he was sober at the time) of particularly enjoyable encounters co-starring someone he is with no longer (or, in Kurosawa’s case, now despise).

  26. One need not be an apologist for perversion to agree that one should never put someone else’s naked image before the world as punishment for rejecting them. Forget for the moment the content of the material – can’t we at least agree that’s a horrible thing to do?

  28. I think you all need to lighten up. Yes it’s remarkable that I’m still capable of humor, albeit ironic, amongst all this darkness but it’s a way of maintaining sanity while the rest of the western world seems hell bent on insanity.

    Bottom line is that porn of all types is a fundamental enabler for all of the perversions that the left are current pushing and celebrating. It is blasted into the bedrooms of our children and recruiting them into a world of filth, before they’ve even had a chance to form their own personalities and a view of healthy sexual relations as they pertain to a man and a woman.

  30. Another pro-tip: if you have a webcam built into your laptop, cover the lens with something except when you are using the camera.

  32. Good. People like Moore make a living off the humiliation and suffering of others. Or, rather, by extorting money from them to make the humiliation stop.

    And for those to whom it matters, many of these pictures were never sent to anyone by the woman depicted, but rather were stolen by Moore and his associates by hacking phones and computers. Perhaps it is those women’s fault for possessing pictures of themselves that would be embarrassing if stolen and then published by the thief.

  33. I respectfully disagree. That ban is written too broadly, and is likely unconstitutional under current First Amendment precedent.

    However, these charges are federal. They are based on statutes that are not geared toward revenge porn specifically, but toward other conduct without which the revenge porn business model couldn’t work. These revenge porn purveyors rely on a business model that requires theft and/or extortion to be profitable, Make it unprofitable, and the problem is solved. No new laws are necessary.

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