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| Victims are hoping jail time will wipe the smug smile off of Hunter Moore, who basically invented the odious "revenge porn." |
The name probably doesn't ring a bell with you, but it sure does among the many women he victimized.
Moore pretty much invented "revenge porn," in which people sent in their ex-girlfriends' compromising photos and Moore put them up for the world to see.
That's invasion of privacy enough, but it gets worse: He posted nude photos he and his cohorts stole from women's Gmail accounts.
Moore once said he wouldn't care if, as he put it, "somebody killed themselves" because of his hideous website. He was pretty proud of his work. And he seemed to think he was some sort of entrepreneur rock star.
Now it looks like he won't be being the Worst Possible Troll on the Internet anymore.
ArtsTechnica.com reports that Moore, 28, pleaded guilty this week to unauthorized access to a computer, identity theft and other charges.
From Arts Technica:
"Moore's IsAnybodyUp became hugely popular for posting nude and sexually explicit photos of people without their permission, and it spawned copycat revenge porn sites like Craign Brittain's IsAnybodyDown.com and Kevin Bollaert's ugotposted.com. (Brittain was banned from posting any more nude photos without their explicit permission in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission in January, while Bollaert was found guilty earlier this month of identity theft and extortion."
Awesome. I know getting rid of these kinds of troll web site developers and scumbags is something of a game of whack-a-mole, but at least they're being prosecuted. It might discourage a few of the assholes, anyway.
Lawmakers are also trying to craft laws specifically going after horrible people like Moore. ArtsTechnica said England and Wales recently passed a law making it a criminal act to distribute nude and explicit photos without a person's permission. California passed such a law last year.
It's too bad Moore isn't banned from having Internet access for the rest of his life. I know nowadays it's very hard to live without such access.
But he deserves to suffer that way. The havoc he wreaked on the Internet begs us to keep him off it.
My more base instincts also hopes Moore, that most hated man on the Internet, also becomes the most hated man in prison. I'm sure his bro attitude will get an adjustment there.
Yay!
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From Gawker
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.
Moore, once known as The Most Hated Man on the Internet, faces a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 7 years in prison, plus fines of up to $500,000 and probation for up to 3 years once he gets out.
The deal will let Moore, who once said he wouldn't care if "somebody killed themselves" over his website, back on the Internet—he's been banned since he was first charged last year— but requires him to notify his probation officer of any new accounts he registers and any new hardware or software he gets, and let the cops access and copy all his files at any time.
He's also forbidden from contact with any of the seven revenge porn victims in the indictment, who are identified only by their initials.
Charles Evens, the co-defendant Moore admitted he paid to break into those Gmail accounts and steal nudes that later ended up on Is Anyone Up, will go to trial next month unless he also cuts a plea deal.
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