Revenge Porn operator gets 18 years Prison.
 

He better pray that big Bubba doesn't have snapchat or instagram.


'Revenge porn' operator gets 18 years in prison - CNN.com

(CNN)The owner of a now-offline "revenge porn" website based in California was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison, the San Diego office of the state's attorney general said.

Kevin Christopher Bollaert, 27, had been found guilty in February of six counts of extortion and 21 counts of identity theft. He faced a maximum of 23 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Bollaert created a website that allowed people to post explicit images of people without their permission. The site also posted personal information of the people in the pictures without their consent, Attorney General Kamala Harris said.

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This guy should definitely be in prison, but....

That is an incredibly unbalanced sentence considering what a rapist might be sentenced.. People will be in and out of prison for murdering someone before this guy is up for parole.

Also, try not to forget the responsibility of the morons who decided to upload the pictures. Where's there punishment? Are we to assume that they were mindless followers of this evil?

Just strip him of all his wealth, it's stupid jailed a non violent person for 18 years. Costing taxpayers 60k a year. Is it any wonder the state is going broke and you get more raised taxation. So why punish yourselves as taxpayers.

just like some spammers who got 50-100 year sentences back in the day this guy is being used as an 'example' which shouldn't be allowed. this is a life, not an 'example'.

I agree the guy should be punished...but all things considered this is excessive.

He was extorting money from these people and they didn't post the pictures online.like most keyboard warriors he cried when caught.he really fucked up people's lives so 18 yrs is good. This isn't just mischief.

Agree with others above... should be punished and stripped of wealth. The guy knew what he was doing was wrong.

With rape, you just fuck up one girl's mind.

This guy was responsible for fucking up thousands of girls minds.

Good news :thumbsup

Yep from what I read he caused some real damage.

People get 10-30 years in prison for illegal content, this is a fair sentence, he knew what he was doing.

Did you really think they'd show people like this leniency? not surprised at all. If expect the judicial system to throw the fucking book at non-remorseful people like this. These sites are the opposite of "I had no idea I was hurting anyone" and later at trial you are going to look like the biggest piece of shit and it's indeniable.

There is this cool little thing in the world.... It's called karma. What goes around comes around.

I share the same beliefs as you that the system is fucked up but given what the system is im not surprised this happened. How did these people think it would end? Did they really think they could destroy people like this and post this shit and it wouldn't end up with severe jail time? Are people that stupid?

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You can't fix stupid.


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Whining hypocrites in this thread are full of shit.
Just make one of the 100's of victims their daughter or girlfriend and they would give the guy the death penalty.

Fuck the hypocrites, the guy only got 8 months for each count against him.

He hid behind his computer and the law; snickering like a shit eating hyena the whole time.
It's against the law for the boyfriends to track him down and beat his ass but I bet
he now wishes he'd simply gotten his ass beat the first time he posted a pic.

Murderers don't get 18 years, what a joke

I understand.... reading is difficult for you twats. Try reading the article or even understanding what he was doing and found guilty of. Or have someone read it to you.

If he did 100 murders then he would get 1800 years.
Do you understand the concept of "multiple charges"?

As Blackmonster pointed out this guys is only getting 8 months for each felony charge. He did way more damage to some of his victims than that 8 months represents.

And this was a criminal business plan from the start. He got what he deserved.

I have a site empireamateurs.com "community site" which I don't want to go down this road - I'm seriously thinking of buying content and stuffing the members area with it or should I just work with a company to do it

Any suggestions?

You don't get "big buyer discount" in US?

In here the sentence is considered as a whole. Not simply looking from some chart like in McDonalds; "That will make xxxx amount, please." :)

"Only 8 months" is by the way almost a year. You don't have very many years in your life.

Why did this guy get so much time, yet that scumbag hunter moore barely got any time???

Exactly, and by setting up a business based on ruining other peoples lives you should be ready to deal with the consequences.

He should feel lucky someone didn't hunt him down and deal with him personally.


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Moore wasn't charged or convicted of extortion, a much more serious felony crime.

You can make up any punisment by reasoning like that. "He knew what he did" (like throwing cigarette butt on ground), or "Deal with the consequences" (there is no justice in here, deal with it).

So, how he actually ruined other people's lives? I thought he had some porn site, not hitman service.

If someone would have "dealt with him personally", I trust that he (the dealing guy) would have been sentenced for it. You have so called developed country, right?

Do a search on the trial, see what his victims said. Publishing private photos with links to that persons Facebook profile and other social media, place of employment, etc. with the intent to cause enough damage that the woman would pay hundreds of dollars per photo to have them removed.

Takes a pretty callous destructive personality to target women like this.

Note; he's eligible for parole in 10 years.

"Revenge Porn" Defendant Sentenced to 18 Years | NBC 7 San Diego

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Agreed :2 cents:

The victims should direct their anger at whoever betrayed them by using their intimidate photos and uploading them. Somebody broke their trust. This guy is a dick for not taking the photos down but he didn't go into peoples computer and steal those photos. He should be punished for providing the service not multiple charges.

What he did was create a website and solicit the photos for it with the intent to do enough damage with them that he could extort money from the women to have the photos taken down.

Extortion is a serious crime in the US.

The fact that anyone's (especially those working in this industry) defending this guy is baffling.

Thinking 18 years is excessive and defending him, there is an in between :2 cents:

Depends on a country. In some places of World it doesn't work :2 cents:

Well here we go with another lame post by someone who didn't or can't read.

He didn't get convicted for uploading photos.

He got convicted of Identity theft, 21 counts; how the fuck is that the fault of anyone else except him?

He got convicted of 6 counts of extortion.

He posted porn without a model release; without 2257, without permission and when he got the equivalent of a DMCA, he extorted $250-$350 from the victim.

How is that anyone else's fault????

I think some people are worried about their own ass and that's where their position come from.

People stealing content probably think his sentence is horrible.

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Good.. Good.. GOOOD!!!
I hope the motherfucker never breathes free air again!It's a shame I'm not a judge because I would give the bastard the death penalty.

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I understood the charges he was convicted on.

I'll make it easier for you to understand : 6 counts of extortion... fair enough, 21 charges of identity theft.... harsh.

And I think people who don't steal content, unless you want to make accusations but you better back them up are entitled to an opinion.

How strange, you are usually such a happy fun loving guy.... :error :error

All I am saying is that the punishment should be in line with the felony and the hand touchable consequences. For example you shouldn't give sentences based on personality. Unless someone is sentenced for being asshole, but you don't have that kind of punishments in civilized countries.

If I supply you something (wrongfully) with what you can extort my ex-gf, I don't do anything wrong?

What if I take a cut? Maybe we have a business model in here?

Yeah sure, but he is only in this country and not some places in the world.
If we had Sharia law then we would stone the motherfucker.

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What stops you having sharia law? You already have death penalty, harsh punishments, hardy "fucking criminals" attitude, and quite religious country. Transition wouldn't be that big.

We could have used stones was my only point.

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I just wanted to point out his crimes that he had full control over because this news story
is only about his convictions.

Other people may get charged, but this story is only about the one guy.

Sounds like a fair sentence to me.

The sentence is disproportionate and unfair. However this will serve as a precedent for any possible criminal who will dare to think about doing something similar.

Every girl you have ever been with is fucked in the mind forever. So add them all up and you should get about 4 months in jail too

Example has been set...

Normally I am but when it comes time to stand my ground then I do so with extreme prejudice.

The problem here with all these people saying that "the prison sentence is too extreme" is that it's mainly the Igeneration feeling threatened. We've got a generation that's grown up on the Internet and they believe it's their right to do whatever the hell they want and suffer zero consequences.

So personally I think we're long overdue to make a few dirtbags into examples. If someone took a belt sander to the faces of a couple of these trolls and put it up on youtube we would see a lot less trolls in the future.

As you can guess I feel the sentence for the revenge porn site is far too light.. but it's a start. Now they need to go after all these bastards that posted on it.

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If he committed 21 counts of identify theft, why the fuck would it be harsh to find him guilty and sentence him for it ?