Victims of Revenge Porn Mount Class Action Suit Against GoDaddy and Texxxan.com

[redqueen]

http://betabeat.com/2013/01/victims-of-revenge-porn-mount-class-action-suit-against-godaddy-and-texxxan-com/

“I don’t think that society really realizes how rampant it is,” Sarah, a victim of revenge porn, told Betabeat in a feature we wrote last month about the effort to put a stop to sites that take intimate photos of women and publish them without their permission. “And right now,” she added, “there’s not a lot that victims can do about it.”

Last week, however, several women–some affiliated with Sarah’s organization, End Revenge Porn–joined a class action lawsuit with the hopes of taking down a prominent revenge porn website.

Hollie Toups, a 32-year-old resident of Beaumont, Texas, has publicly come forward to discuss her painful experience with revenge porn in an effort to encourage other victims to do the same. Ms. Toups is now one of at least 23 women who have signed on to a class action lawsuit that seeks to prosecute the owners of Texxxan.com and its hosting company GoDaddy for invasion of privacy and mental anguish. Texxxan.com hosts intimate photos of women living in Texas that have been submitted without their consent.

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Texxxan.com isn’t the only website allegedly engaging in this sort of blackmail enterprise. Other revenge porn sites also benefit both from posting photos and removing them. Is Anybody Down, a copycat site of Hunter Moore’s infamous Is Anyone Up, has a relationship with a third-party website called Takedown Hammer that will scrub your photos from Is Anybody Down, but only for a fee.

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[ismnotwasm]

1. Good

Here's to success

[seabeyond]

2. wow wow wow. just disgusting. why arent men appalled? nt

[redqueen]

3. Cause victim blaming.

If a woman takes a nude photo of herself, many people think that she deserves to have that picture shared without her consent.

Just as with any other socially accepted practice where a woman's body is treated like public property, whatever harm comes to her because she can be portrayed as 'slutty', 'stupid', 'asking for it', etc... that is exactly what many people will do.

Got sexually harassed? Shouldn't have dressed that way! Got beaten up by your partner? Shouldn't have been with him/should have left him! Got raped? Shouldn't have been drinking! Got your OBVIOUSLY private picture shared by an asshole? Shouldn't have taken the picture!

It's always the same.


Imagine if the same was done to men...

Got falsely accused of rape? Shouldn't have been alone with her! Got ripped off by a gold digger? Should have seen it coming! Got a woman pregnant and she chose to abort it against your wishes? Should have known her opinion about whether she wants to have a baby before having sex with her!

[seabeyond]

4. but, the lecture from the pro porn men are that the women WANT to do it. hypocrites

to suggest on the one hand it is ok cause women really really want to do it and it is ok cause she sent a private picture to someone so everyone should get to see it, fuck her.

[Dr. Strange]

5. Good luck to Ms. Toups.

Nevada-based lawyer Marc Randazza, who is representing Bullyville founder James McGibley in a defamation suit against the revenge porn proprietor Hunter Moore, has conversed extensively with the profiteers of Is Anybody Down. After studying the IP addresses associated with the computers of Is Anybody Down’s owner Craig Brittain and the owner of Takedown Hammer, he told Betabeat that the two sites are definitely both run by the same person.

Randazza also played a big role in killing Righthaven, but it took a couple of years. And technically, Righthaven still exists, albeit on life support.

I hope this suit meets with much quicker success.

[seabeyond]

6. and begin establishing some law on this behavior. nt

[arudnev]

7. Re: Victims of Revenge Porn Mount Class Action Suit Against GoDaddy and Texxxan.com

The only way to stop RP is by getting lawyers involved and going after hosting companies. They make money by providing hosting services to revenge porn websites. MyTestify.com for example allows for people to quickly organize a victim community, all girls have to do is document their complaints, lawyers will take care of the rest.

[MicaelS]

8. Suing the shit out of everyone concerned..

Is the only way to put an end to this type of behavior. And that is exactly what I hope happens.

[seabeyond]

9. i think we also need laws to catch up with our tech media... but ya. repercussions. nt