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In the wake of a Florida bill to criminalize revenge porn (which died after failing to receive a final vote before the Florida legislative session ended), a California state senator has introduced Senate Bill 255.  SB255, as introduced by Sen. Anthony Canella (R-Ceres) would make it a misdemeanor to engage in a wide variety of acts associated with “revenge porn” — the practice of sharing nude photos of someone in order to sate a fleeting desire for revenge. While I largely...
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Revenge porn site YouGotPosted (also known as “ugotposted”) has been sued in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.  The complaint is here (hat-tip: Bullyville). Notably, this is the first lawsuit targeting a revenge porn site that focuses on copyright.  I think intellectual property claims present the best chance victims of revenge porn sites have in prevailing in civil cases against site owners. While sites even as despicable as YouGotPosted might...
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This will be a quick post, but in my ongoing research into revenge porn and online extortion, I stumbled across (h/t Mandy Nagy) this press release and recently-unsealed complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan.  It alleges, essentially, that a New York man — Adam Paul Savader — used a variety of Google Voice numbers to text women under the monicker “John Smith.”  ”Smith” told the women that he had nude photos of them (or, in one victim’s case,...
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Charles Carreon has been ordered (PDF) to pay $46,100.25 in attorneys fees to the once-anonymous blogger behind Satirical Chas. Read more «Charles Carreon Ordered to Pay ,000 to Satirical Blogger»

While much focus has been on IsAnybodyDown (now known as “ObamaNudes”) and the antics of truth-challenged Craig Brittain, the largest revenge porn site is YouGotPosted (aka “ugotposted”).  This lowly blog receives far more visitors searching for YouGotPosted than for any other revenge porn site, and far more victims of that site contact me than victims of Craig Brittain. YouGotPosted’s ride, however, is about to come to a crashing halt, as the result of a...
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