Our Best Weapon Against Revenge Porn Is Copyright Law

When federal agents arrested Hunter Moore last month, the Internet breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Dubbed the "Most Hated Man on the Internet," Moore ran the notorious revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp. His site racked up millions of pageviews and thousands of dollars in advertising revenue by posting sexually explicit photographs and detailed personal information about the people he featured on the site.

According to the indictment, Moore relied on a co-defendant, Charles "Gary Jones" Evens, to hack into victims' email accounts and obtain nude photographs to feature on IsAnyoneUp. The pair is charged with one count of conspiracy, seven counts of aggravated identity theft, and seven counts of "unauthorized access of a protected computer to obtain information." Read more...

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