"Bollaert and Meyering got busted for extortion after charging victims hundreds of dollars to remove their photos from their sites. So Moore may be going away for a while, but “the revenge porn operator who is not an idiot—he’s not engaging in criminal extortion or facilitating hacking—is still sitting pretty,” University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron told me. “The business model is still viable.”
Revenge porn operators who want to slip further under the radar of the law can just “name their sites somewhat more innocuously” or solicit nude photos “in a more subtle way,” Citron says."
- Date Published:02/20/2015
- Original Publication:Slate