A man who set up a revenge porn website called Is Anyone Up has
been jailed.
Hunter Moore -
dubbed the revenge porn king - says he started the site after a "girl
broke his heart".
But the 29-year-old
soon found it was making him huge amounts of money.
Is Anyone Up posted nude
photos which often included names and contact details.
Many of the victims'
photos were found by their family and friends.
Some were subjected
to harassment and even assaulted.
Moore, from
California, has now been sentenced to two and a half years in prison and fined
more than a £1,000 ($2,000).
When he's released
he will be under supervision for three years.
It means he will
have to log every "computer, computer-related device, screen name,
password, e-mail account or ISP" with his probation officer.
But there's
criticism that his punishment isn't tough enough and that US laws don't tackle
revenge porn as a specific crime.
Last year, Moore was
found to be paying an accomplice to hack into peoples' computers and steal nude
photos.
He'd been dubbed the
"Most hated man on the internet" by Rolling Stone
magazine and faced huge criticism online.
The FBI arrested him
for accessing "a protected computer without authorization to obtain
information for private financial gain."
He pleaded guilty at
a court in Los Angeles on Wednesday and will have to pay compensation to his
victims of just under a hundred pounds or $145.70 each.
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