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00:00Incaiçorna, em december 2015, um verdict foi anunciado.
00:15Hunter Moore, age 28, foi sentenced a 2½ anos em prisão e fined R$500,000.
00:22Esse verdict foi agirly awaited por várias vítimas no mundo.
00:27Felt muito liberado, porque algo realmente aconteceu, e ele foi realmente colocado por algo que ele fez, porque isso é o que ele mereceu.
00:38Behind this youthful face, and this teenage appearance, hid a man known as the King of Revenge Porn.
00:48With his website IsAnyoneUp, launched in 2010, Hunter Moore popularized a new form of pornography,
00:56consisting of private, very intimate photographs posted online without the consent of those striking the pose.
01:02It seemed like it was a selfie taken in a bedroom or in a bathroom, as opposed to professional photos,
01:10or ones that were taken by somebody else.
01:13Most of them did seem to be selfies.
01:18Hunter Moore was an enfant terrible of the late noughties, when the advent of smartphones and social networks saw the world transformed.
01:26This trash guru used his powers of seduction to build up a massive online following.
01:37I say he's a charismatic leader.
01:39He's like Charles Manson. Charles Manson was a charismatic leader.
01:42He gets people to follow him, people to worship him, people to love him.
01:47He could literally say he was God and people would have believed it, because, you know, most of the people that looked at the website and checked it were just, you know, children.
01:57Hello, hello, all my beautiful fucking children.
02:02A past master of self-promotion, he inundated the web with ever more juicy details of his private life, until he became a brand name.
02:12But this fake transparency was actually a smokescreen.
02:18It's still not clear which parts of his virtual persona were true and which were false.
02:24A lot of the things that were said never happened.
02:31It's like a reality TV show. You want to believe.
02:36Across America, from east to west, witnesses have been shedding new light on his story.
02:46His best friend, his lawyer, and the women who finally brought him down, all describe him as a manipulative and provocative character.
02:56In the space of about four years, this brat shattered all our certainties about people's right to a private life.
03:04So, let's get back to that.
03:32Hunter Moore was born in 1980,
03:341886, em Woodland, California.
03:40Esse nondescripto suburb
03:42foi um far cry
03:43de famosa, Los Angeles,
03:45ou trânsito San Francisco.
03:57Ele cresceu em este casa,
03:59com sua irmãs e seus pais.
04:02Em short,
04:02Hunter Moore came from an ordinary
04:04middle-class American family.
04:07Surrounded by so much normality,
04:09he was a rebellious teenager.
04:15His mother indicated
04:16that his behavior now
04:17was very consistent
04:18with his behavior as a child.
04:21That he had been,
04:22that he'd had a very normal upbringing,
04:26but had always been
04:27sort of out of control
04:29and unable to be managed
04:32or disciplined.
04:35He went to the local
04:36Catholic high school,
04:38but was expelled for bad behavior,
04:40an anecdote he would often repeat
04:42to the press years later.
04:45But you can't take
04:46Hunter Moore's word for anything.
04:48According to the school office,
04:50his name doesn't even appear
04:52on their database.
04:53One thing is certain,
04:57Hunter wasn't exactly
04:58a star pupil.
05:01He dropped out of school
05:02for good in 2000
05:04at the age of 14.
05:07He dropped out of school early.
05:09He never graduated
05:10because he told me
05:11he just wasn't interested in it.
05:13He didn't want to be
05:15in the classroom.
05:16He didn't feel like
05:17there was anything
05:18he could learn there
05:19that was going to help him.
05:20Like any American teenager,
05:31he tried his hand at skateboarding
05:32and listened to heavy metal.
05:34But his real passion
05:35was the one he pursued alone
05:37at home,
05:38in his bedroom.
05:40This was the start
05:41of the millennium,
05:43a bygone era
05:44when YouTube didn't exist
05:45and Google only had
05:47eight employees.
05:49Hunter was already addicted
05:51to the Internet,
05:52which was still in its infancy,
05:53consisting mainly
05:54of chat rooms and forums.
05:57In 2003, age 16,
06:00he joined the first
06:00social networks,
06:02creating his own
06:03MySpace page.
06:05Hunter Moore was a product
06:07of his time
06:07and an Internet user
06:09like any other of his age.
06:10We all went through
06:12a phase of being
06:13on MySpace.
06:14We made friends
06:15on MySpace.
06:19We made new friends
06:20on MySpace.
06:22We chatted
06:23and shared things.
06:26That's definitely
06:27when social networking
06:28started,
06:29in, well,
06:30the modern sense
06:31of the term.
06:38Hunter wasn't interested
06:40in much else
06:41beside the web.
06:42In 2005,
06:43in Sacramento,
06:45he attended
06:45this hairdressing college.
06:47He even obtained
06:48a diploma.
06:49But his career
06:49in hairdressing
06:50never went any further.
06:55He didn't really
06:56have any responsibilities
06:57or a job.
06:59I know he did hair,
07:00but he never
07:01really wanted to do
07:04what you have to do
07:05when you start doing hair,
07:06which is paying your dues,
07:08which is, you know,
07:11starting from scratch,
07:12just working at a salon,
07:13being an assistant,
07:14sweeping hair.
07:15He didn't want to do that.
07:16He wanted just to
07:17fuck off, I guess.
07:19He just wanted to
07:20do whatever.
07:22Carlos Giacome
07:23became his best friend
07:24a few years later.
07:25He remembers him
07:26as a dabbler,
07:27but very skilled
07:28at making a fast buck.
07:30I never really knew
07:35what he did
07:36to make money.
07:37I just knew
07:38that he just
07:38had money somehow.
07:41I do know
07:41how he had money.
07:43There was something
07:43that happened,
07:44so he sued
07:45the person
07:47for sexual harassment,
07:50and I don't know,
07:52he got a lot of money
07:52from that,
07:53so I guess
07:53he just kind of
07:54used some of that money,
07:56and then he would
07:56just travel.
07:57In 2007,
08:00Hunter finally came
08:01of age
08:02and left
08:03his humdrum life.
08:09For the next three years,
08:11he travelled
08:11in Australia and Japan.
08:16He's always kept quiet
08:18about this period
08:19of his life.
08:23But these rare images
08:24found on MySpace
08:25didn't exactly show him
08:27visiting museums
08:28or admiring the landscape.
08:32When he came back
08:33to America,
08:34this boy from Woodland
08:35was a changed man.
08:40Now,
08:41his interests
08:42centred him
08:42almost exclusively
08:43around partying.
08:47He toured the country,
08:48working as a manager
08:49for a small
08:50Californian rock band.
08:54It was during
08:55during one of these tours
08:56that he made friends
08:57with Carlos.
08:58We made friends
09:02immediately.
09:03It's,
09:03we were
09:04very similar
09:06in some things,
09:08some things.
09:10He was,
09:11he was like a,
09:11like a fun guy,
09:12like he was a,
09:14someone who was funny,
09:15he's hilarious,
09:16he's,
09:16he didn't really care.
09:19That was,
09:19like,
09:20I think that's,
09:21what was,
09:22I guess,
09:24cool about this person,
09:25he just didn't care
09:26about anything
09:26or anyone
09:27or he just wanted
09:28to party.
09:32At that time,
09:33this young man
09:33was already showing
09:34an interest in photography,
09:36at least,
09:37in a certain type
09:38of photograph.
09:43He's good at using people,
09:45manipulating people,
09:47getting girls
09:47to do what he wanted.
09:49Getting naked,
09:50getting girls naked
09:50was the easiest thing
09:52for him.
09:53I think,
09:54like,
09:56it wasn't an everyday
09:57thing,
09:57being on tour,
09:58he would just
09:58show me,
10:00you know,
10:00nudes all the time.
10:03In 2010,
10:04Hunter turned 24.
10:06Back at his parents'
10:07house in Woodland,
10:08after three years
10:09of travel,
10:09he still had
10:10no real skills,
10:12apart from partying
10:12and a perfect command
10:14of the internet,
10:15of course.
10:18Things had moved on
10:19a lot since the days
10:20of chat rooms
10:20and early social networks.
10:21The Californian
10:23was now more connected
10:24than ever
10:24on Facebook.
10:33Inspired by this model,
10:34he launched his own site,
10:36which he called
10:36Is Anyone Up?
10:38It was a rudimentary platform
10:40where party animals
10:41could chat
10:41about their nights out.
10:42It was around this time
10:48in October 2010
10:49that lawyer
10:50Reza Sina
10:51met Hunter.
10:52Hunter excitedly told him
10:54about his idea.
10:55His website was kind of
11:01a little pet project
11:02for him.
11:02He liked it.
11:03It was fun for him.
11:04It was for the
11:05San Francisco community.
11:07It really was looking
11:09exactly what the name
11:10of the website is,
11:11Is Anyone Up?
11:12He would be four or five
11:13in the morning
11:13and he'd be like,
11:15hey, who else is up
11:16in San Francisco?
11:17What are you doing?
11:18and it was like
11:19a chat message board
11:20and people would discuss it
11:22and he was telling me
11:24about it.
11:24He said it was pretty cool.
11:25He was excited.
11:26He would be at home
11:28in Sacramento
11:29and he wouldn't leave
11:31his house or apartment
11:33and then he would just
11:35stay home editing
11:37or whatever
11:38and going through
11:39all the submissions
11:40and he would
11:41never really go out.
11:43He would just kind of stay
11:44working on this website.
11:48It was pure chance
11:50that took the party website
11:51to the next level.
11:54One evening,
11:55Hunter was talking
11:56to his friends
11:56on Is Anyone Up?
11:58To entertain the group,
12:00he shared a photograph
12:01of his girlfriend,
12:03nude.
12:05Soon, everyone was trying
12:07to outdo one another.
12:10You can imagine,
12:12it's four or five
12:12in the morning,
12:13someone's still up
12:16and something's
12:18on their mind
12:19and they want
12:21to call someone out
12:22or embarrass someone.
12:23So they're like,
12:24hey, look at this.
12:25And then they sent
12:26a picture and it was like,
12:27oh, you know what?
12:28That gives me an idea.
12:29I hated this girl
12:31and this was my ex
12:32and then they sent
12:33a picture.
12:34It was a stupid joke
12:35which could have
12:36stopped there.
12:38But things soon escalated.
12:40One time on Facebook,
12:43I was checking in
12:44and everyone's just
12:45putting Is Anyone Up
12:46for everything.
12:47Or he would just post
12:47it on his status,
12:48just Is Anyone Up.
12:49And I had no idea.
12:50I just honestly thought
12:51that that was just him
12:53being like,
12:54oh, Is Anyone Up?
12:55Like, chat with me,
12:56let's flirt or whatever.
12:57Let me see a picture
12:58of my dick or whatever.
12:59I don't know.
13:01But yeah.
13:02And then I found out
13:03about it and I called him.
13:05And I was like,
13:05what are you doing?
13:06What is this?
13:06He's like, oh, remember,
13:07like, you know,
13:09getting all these
13:09girls nudes.
13:13The nude photos
13:14attracted new
13:15internet users.
13:16It was still a party
13:18website, but now
13:19a series of increasingly
13:20risque photographs
13:22were being posted.
13:23They all had one
13:25thing in common.
13:26They were amateur
13:27photos taken from
13:28real life, all posted
13:30without the consent
13:31of the people
13:32concerned.
13:36These people's
13:37nudity had been stolen.
13:39The photos were crude
13:40and explicit.
13:41This was the birth
13:42of revenge porn.
13:45They were, you know,
13:47very explicit photos.
13:48A lot of times
13:49it was selfies.
13:50It would be somebody
13:50in a bathroom taking
13:52a photo of their face
13:53and their boobs
13:54or like, you know,
13:56large penises,
13:57small penises.
13:58It was a, there was
14:00a great variety
14:01of people's intimate
14:03parts on the site.
14:04but they all did have
14:06this sense of intimacy.
14:09Every time, every month
14:11it was like bigger
14:11and bigger and bigger
14:12and bigger.
14:13People would wait.
14:14People would wait
14:14every day for the post.
14:18Alone in his bedroom
14:19on the quiet streets
14:20of Woodland,
14:21Hunter decided to cash in
14:22on this growing audience
14:24and devote his whole
14:25website to revenge porn.
14:26And then suddenly
14:30out of nowhere
14:31it really got spiked up
14:32and became
14:33a much more popular website
14:35and that's when
14:36he came to me
14:37and said,
14:38hey, I want to
14:39make this into
14:40a corporation
14:41of some sort.
14:42I don't know
14:42what kind of corporation
14:43to do it
14:44and I need advice
14:46because it's growing.
14:47It's growing way faster
14:47than I anticipated.
14:49It went from having
14:50like 50 hits a day
14:52to 100,000.
14:54So that's when
14:55I became involved
14:55as an attorney.
14:56By the end of 2010,
15:01Is Anyone Up
15:01showed nothing
15:02but revenge porn.
15:04Hunter Moore
15:04had taken full advantage
15:05of a major
15:06technological turning point.
15:08Since the successful
15:09release of iPhone
15:10in 2007,
15:11the world had changed
15:13with everybody now
15:13in possession
15:14of a smartphone.
15:16Smartphones became
15:17indispensable new tools,
15:19making photography
15:20an everyday activity
15:21for all.
15:22Habits were being
15:23revolutionized,
15:25even the most intimate.
15:26I think it was
15:29a period of time
15:30in which everybody
15:31had a smartphone.
15:32The smartphones
15:33had front-facing cameras
15:34and it was very,
15:36very easy to take
15:37photos of yourself
15:38and it was very easy
15:39to take photos
15:40of yourself naked.
15:41and because so many
15:43of our relationships
15:44now are mediated
15:45digitally,
15:46I mean,
15:47I think it completely
15:48makes sense
15:48that sending people
15:50naked photos
15:50is a way
15:51that we are,
15:53we exist as sexual beings
15:54and that it becomes
15:55part of relationships.
15:562010 was a turning point.
16:02The concept of privacy
16:03was turned upside down.
16:05Mark Zuckerberg,
16:07co-founder of Facebook,
16:08announced in public
16:09that privacy
16:10was no longer
16:11a social norm.
16:13Hunter took advantage
16:14of those blurred boundaries.
16:16He posted on his website
16:18a screen grab
16:18of the Facebook page
16:20of each of his victims.
16:21Their private lives
16:23were suddenly on show
16:25for all to see.
16:26In their profile photos,
16:28they were often
16:28smiling innocently.
16:32Then,
16:33further down the page,
16:34there would be photos
16:35which never should
16:36have been made public.
16:43We all had Facebook accounts
16:45and we put lots of photos there
16:47and information
16:47about ourselves
16:48and our whole social networks
16:51and our events
16:52and what we like to do.
16:54We, as a society,
16:55had started to really
16:56expose ourselves.
16:58So, for me,
16:59he was kind of this,
17:00uh,
17:01this,
17:01this ominous force,
17:03this preview
17:04of the dark things
17:05that would come from
17:06all this transparency online
17:08that we had embraced.
17:11In a society
17:12saturated with images,
17:14proponents of revenge porn
17:15seem not to know
17:16where the moral boundaries
17:18are anymore.
17:19For them,
17:20whether private
17:21or public,
17:22all photos are the same
17:23and to be shared
17:24indiscriminately.
17:26Amanda Collins
17:27discovered
17:28Is Anyone Up
17:28in its early days.
17:30When she found out
17:31that her boyfriend
17:32had been unfaithful to her,
17:34she decided
17:34to get her revenge.
17:36Later on,
17:37I found out
17:38that they had had
17:39a girlfriend,
17:39which I didn't know about,
17:40and I just sent the pictures
17:44over with their Facebook,
17:46but they didn't get posted
17:48because at that time,
17:50I think at that time,
17:51the website was just
17:52gaining so much popularity
17:53that people were just
17:56sending in so much
17:57that yours,
17:59he couldn't get to it.
18:01Everyone that does it
18:02for the reason
18:02I did it for
18:03is just,
18:04it's a little bit of hurt.
18:05It's a little bit of hurt.
18:06it's a little bit of betrayal.
18:08And it's just,
18:09you know,
18:09you made a fool out of me,
18:11I'm going to make
18:12a fool out of you.
18:19Gradually,
18:19Hunter Moore encouraged
18:20visitors to the site
18:21to leave comments
18:22and give their opinions
18:23on each photo.
18:24The tone was sometimes
18:25lighthearted,
18:26but more often than not,
18:27it was incredibly vulgar,
18:28sometimes even violent.
18:31And lips on her tit,
18:33oh dear God,
18:34would destroy her,
18:36at the beginning,
18:39it was,
18:40if someone had put
18:41a picture up on there,
18:43people would make fun of them.
18:45People would have
18:45nasty comments.
18:47And then,
18:47as the website
18:49got more popular,
18:51the comments just got
18:52even nastier
18:54and just rude
18:55and almost borderline disgusting.
19:01Where girls just got
19:03ripped apart
19:03by both guys and girls.
19:05where guys mostly
19:06just got looked at
19:07as a joke
19:08and people would laugh.
19:10But girls,
19:11whether they were pretty
19:12or not so attractive,
19:13either way,
19:14they just got
19:15ripped to shreds online.
19:18Hunter hadn't just created
19:20another porn site,
19:22he'd launched
19:22a real social network.
19:24network.
19:28In a way,
19:30Is Anyone Up
19:31was the nemesis
19:33of all other
19:34social networking sites.
19:36It resembled
19:38a social networking site.
19:40It could have been
19:41just another platform
19:42where people could comment,
19:44share and chat.
19:46But,
19:47its intention
19:48to humiliate
19:49was hateful.
19:50It was hateful.
19:50It was a
19:51but
19:51crapuleux,
19:53d'humiliation,
19:54etc.
19:58Online,
19:59Hunter did all he could
20:00to sustain
20:01the interest
20:01of his followers.
20:03From his bedroom,
20:03he set up
20:04daily meetings
20:05to keep the group
20:05interested.
20:08There were theme days,
20:10including one
20:11named Daily Nargoyles.
20:13This was real
20:14public humiliation.
20:17Entering into the spirit,
20:19some people even
20:20ended up posting
20:21their own photos
20:22for fun.
20:25It's the only place
20:27that people can see
20:27what he's doing.
20:29That's why.
20:30So he was able
20:32to use all those tools
20:33to drive his creation,
20:38which was
20:39exactly that,
20:43which was to show
20:44people in vulnerable
20:45situations.
20:46And,
20:46unfortunately,
20:47a lot of people
20:48take interest in that
20:50and think
20:51it's entertaining.
20:53And he played to that.
20:57But for the victims
20:59of these sites,
21:00there's nothing funny
21:01about revenge porn.
21:05Photographs were circulated
21:06at an alarming rate.
21:08Barely posted,
21:10they could be downloaded
21:10and shared again.
21:13This proliferation of images
21:16was worrying,
21:18but nobody knew
21:19how to protect themselves
21:20from revenge porn.
21:22At that time,
21:23Hunter was protected
21:24from any lawsuits
21:25against him
21:26by the Communications
21:27Decency Act.
21:28In the U.S.,
21:32we have something called
21:33the Communications
21:34Decency Act,
21:37which is funny.
21:37It's an ironic name,
21:39but it basically
21:40protects platforms
21:41from being sued
21:43for things that people
21:44write on them.
21:45And so Hunter Moore
21:46was very aware of this
21:47and said,
21:48you know,
21:48I'm protected
21:49by the Communications
21:50Decency Act,
21:51Section 230.
21:53It's not me
21:54who's posting
21:55these photos.
21:55it's my readers,
21:58it's my users.
22:01In his role
22:02as intermediary,
22:03Hunter was beyond reproach.
22:05But the isolated complaints
22:07started to accumulate.
22:09Desperate victims
22:10were sending him
22:10email after email,
22:12begging him
22:12to remove their photos.
22:14But Hunter refused
22:16to deprive his followers
22:17of this scandalous content.
22:20When I say,
22:21hey,
22:22take down the picture.
22:24You know,
22:24you have
22:25100,000 pictures.
22:28Take this one down.
22:29I said,
22:30in fact,
22:31you just have a policy.
22:32If someone comes to you
22:33and asks it to be taken down,
22:35just take it down.
22:36It's not worth it.
22:37You don't want
22:38the legal battles
22:39and it's the right thing to do.
22:40Most of the victims
22:47targeted were girls.
22:52Kayla Laws
22:53was one such victim.
22:55And later,
22:56she went on
22:56to declare war
22:57on Hunter Moore.
22:58But when she first
22:59appeared topless
23:00on Is Anyone Up?
23:01in 2012,
23:02she'd suffered
23:03a violation
23:03of her privacy
23:04which left her vulnerable.
23:05There was a screenshot
23:07of my Twitter account
23:08on the website.
23:09and so a lot of people
23:11started messaging me
23:12and direct messaging me
23:14and making comments
23:18on my Twitter account
23:19about the photo.
23:21Like,
23:22they would be like,
23:23damn, girl,
23:24you look good.
23:25Like,
23:25I'd hit that
23:26or, you know,
23:27like,
23:27I want to F you
23:29and, like,
23:29stuff like that.
23:30Just really vulgar things.
23:32So I stopped
23:33pursuing acting
23:34and I didn't want
23:35to work at that restaurant
23:36anymore.
23:37It just,
23:38everything became toxic
23:39for me
23:40and everyone
23:40I was around
23:41knew about it.
23:47Carrie Goldberg
23:48is one of the few lawyers
23:50to specialize
23:50in the field
23:51of non-consensual
23:52online pornography.
23:53It's a cause
23:54which is close
23:55to her heart.
23:56I've been a lawyer
23:57for eight years.
23:59I was somebody's target
24:01and I learned a lot
24:03about internet privacy
24:05and harassment
24:06and the limits
24:08of what a person
24:09can be restricted
24:10from doing.
24:11and when I got
24:14to the other side
24:15of my problem
24:16I left my job
24:17and I started
24:19this practice
24:20and I was hoping
24:22to help victims
24:24of internet privacy
24:25and revenge porn
24:26but I didn't realize
24:28that it would grow
24:29into such a big thing
24:32and that it would be
24:33all that I do.
24:35Carrie Goldberg
24:36knows from experience
24:38that the police
24:39pay little attention
24:39to victims
24:40of revenge porn.
24:41Often making them
24:43feel responsible.
24:48In this day and age
24:49there's really
24:50just no membrane
24:52between online
24:53and offline life.
24:55We do everything online.
24:57I mean it's where
24:58we shop,
25:00it's where we eat,
25:00it's where we communicate
25:01with our family
25:03and relatives
25:04and there just
25:05there isn't
25:06any distinction.
25:08So it's kind of foolish
25:10for people to say
25:13to victims
25:15who are being harassed,
25:16you know,
25:16just close your laptop,
25:18go outside,
25:19you know,
25:20this is just happening
25:21offline.
25:22No, in fact,
25:22it's not.
25:29Exposed on the web,
25:30victims of revenge porn
25:31lose all control
25:33of their image.
25:35Some of them
25:36never recover
25:37from this public humiliation.
25:43There are victims
25:44that have committed suicide.
25:47Ra'eda Parson,
25:49Audrey Pott,
25:52Tyler Clemente.
25:53I mean it is actually
25:54a true fact
25:56that the horror
25:59of being exposed
26:00online
26:01is so awesome
26:05and major
26:06that people feel
26:08that desperate
26:09where they can't
26:11go on anymore,
26:11they don't see a life
26:12beyond this.
26:15Lost in his virtual universe,
26:17Hunter Moore
26:17showed no empathy.
26:19It was as if
26:20the victims
26:20had ceased
26:20to be real to him.
26:21On special daily hate days
26:23he made public
26:24the complaints
26:25he received.
26:26On one such day,
26:27a man announced
26:28that his niece
26:28had committed suicide.
26:32This is the psycho uncle
26:33who is mad
26:34his niece killed herself
26:35because of your sight.
26:37Remaining resolutely cynical,
26:39Hunter Moore
26:39wasn't at all bothered
26:40about the consequences
26:41of his actions.
26:43In this article,
26:44he announced...
26:47I'm going to sound
26:48like the most evil mother...
26:50But let's be real
26:51for a second.
26:51If someone killed themselves
26:53over being on the site,
26:54do you know
26:54how much money I'd make?
26:56At the end of the day,
26:57I don't want anybody
26:58to hurt themselves,
26:59but if they do,
27:00thank you for the money.
27:03Is Anyone Up
27:04was by now
27:05a successful startup.
27:07On his website,
27:08Hunter launched spin-offs,
27:10including a brand
27:11of T-shirts
27:11with slogans on the front.
27:13The website
27:14was funded
27:14by advertising.
27:18He told me
27:18the way that he was
27:19making money
27:19was purely through
27:20internet ads,
27:21just the ads
27:22that were around the site.
27:23And when we talked
27:24in the summer of 2011,
27:26he told me
27:26he was making $8,000
27:27a month,
27:28which is, you know,
27:29a pretty good salary.
27:31And then,
27:33a few months later,
27:33in another profile,
27:34talking to another journalist,
27:36he said he was making
27:36$13,000 per month
27:38because he had more visitors.
27:40kid from Woodland
27:44was gradually becoming
27:45a rock star,
27:46a virtual rebel
27:47whose life revolved
27:48around a constant flow
27:49of communication
27:50conducted from his bedroom.
27:51He had a computer,
27:57a monitor,
27:58just for Twitter.
28:01His Twitter was like,
28:02going on,
28:04like, every,
28:05you know,
28:06second.
28:07It was like,
28:07people just tweeting at him
28:09and girls sending nudes
28:11and he would repost
28:12the news that they would send
28:14and, um,
28:16yeah,
28:16that was like a big thing.
28:17I mean,
28:18he had a lot of followers on it.
28:21A group of worshippers
28:24soon formed around him.
28:26This community was more
28:28than just a group.
28:29His followers claimed
28:30they were part of a family
28:31of which Hunter was their guru,
28:33their charismatic father.
28:39He would have these,
28:40um,
28:41challenges,
28:41I guess,
28:42just to see how far
28:43people would take it,
28:44how, see,
28:45to see how far
28:46he could push the envelope
28:46and what people would do
28:48and to get hashtags trending.
28:51They were usually all vulgar.
28:54I think one was,
28:56um,
28:57I think a peeing challenge
28:58where it was just
28:59challenges of where to pee
29:02and something like that.
29:03It was always something vulgar
29:04just to see
29:05if these people
29:06would actually do it
29:07and people would.
29:10I don't know
29:12if this happened
29:13more on the internet
29:14than elsewhere,
29:14but there was a fascination
29:16with people
29:16who bent the rules.
29:18It's the old myth
29:19about gangsters
29:20or criminals.
29:24And it's even more fascinating
29:26if the person in question
29:27is visible
29:28and talking to you.
29:31If you follow Moore
29:32on Twitter,
29:33it feels as if
29:34he's addressing you personally.
29:37And that form
29:38of direct communication
29:39is obviously unnerving.
29:41Hunter has set up
29:51his own channel
29:51on YouTube
29:52with a series of tutorials.
29:54He taught sessions
29:55on life and sex
29:56according to Hunter Moore,
29:57in which idiotic provocation
29:59and dubious humor
30:00were the norm.
30:01pros and why
30:05hooking up
30:06with fat girls
30:07is way better.
30:09Way, way better
30:10than hooking up
30:11with hot girls.
30:12Now, don't get me wrong.
30:14Hot girls are badass.
30:17But with a fat chick,
30:18it's almost magical
30:19because
30:20in a sense,
30:22they,
30:23well,
30:25they're just,
30:26well,
30:26they're,
30:26you know,
30:27they're hungry.
30:27and
30:28when you,
30:30when you have
30:30someone that big
30:32who likes to put
30:33stuff in their mouth,
30:35why not your penis, too?
30:36So,
30:37This obsessive self-promotion
30:39culminated in a story
30:40that's legendary
30:41in the world of pornography.
30:42Fat chicks
30:43and why they are better.
30:45So,
30:46One evening
30:47in the summer of 2011,
30:49Hunter Moore
30:50was assaulted
30:50in front of his house.
30:52A victim of his website
30:53stabbed him
30:54with a biro pen.
30:56The next day,
30:57he posted a photograph
30:58of his wound
30:59on the website.
31:01The story was so incredible,
31:02it doubled the number of hits
31:03in the space of a few days.
31:06After this extraordinary incident,
31:08the king of revenge porn
31:09appeared in several
31:10major American magazines,
31:12such as
31:12The Village Voice
31:13or Rolling Stone.
31:15They printed the story
31:16word for word,
31:17but the attack with a biro
31:18was pure fiction.
31:22He never got stabbed
31:23in the shoulder
31:24with a pen.
31:26He claimed to be,
31:27no,
31:28that didn't happen.
31:29He had a tumor,
31:29he got a surgery,
31:30he got a scar,
31:31and then told people
31:32that this happened.
31:32I remember this for a fact.
31:34But what he put that,
31:35it sparked new interest.
31:36It was something,
31:37new material for the website,
31:38and people started
31:40going back on it.
31:41And he realized that
31:42while the submissions
31:44are down,
31:44he can fabricate stuff
31:47and alter the website
31:48to make it seem like
31:49it's still a lot going on,
31:51new things are happening.
31:52After this ingenious piece
31:55of marketing,
31:55Hunter's arrogance
31:56was seriously starting
31:57to bother people.
31:59Having endured the abuse
32:00of its website for too long,
32:01Facebook was the first
32:02to retaliate.
32:04On the 6th of December,
32:052011,
32:06Hunter Moore was banned
32:07for life from the
32:08social network site.
32:09Facebook has disabled
32:10your personal profile.
32:12Yeah, I'm fucked from Facebook.
32:16Facebook actually has,
32:17I mean, I'm from San Francisco,
32:18so I know a million people
32:19that work at Facebook,
32:20and I want to fight
32:21every single one of them.
32:22But they have a custom code
32:24for me to delete me.
32:27Like, my IP,
32:28I've rented proxies,
32:29they find out my proxy IP,
32:31like, nerdy-ass shit,
32:32and they got me.
32:33It's fucked, so.
32:36True to his reputation,
32:38Hunter responded with insolence
32:40and sent a photo of his penis.
32:47But the sanction came too late.
32:50Hunter had already moved
32:51on to the next phase.
32:53He was now setting up
32:54real-life meetings with followers.
33:00He organized Is Anyone Up?
33:02parties across America,
33:04learning how to DJ
33:05as he went along.
33:07In New York,
33:07the meeting place was Webster Hall,
33:09a legendary club
33:10that can hold up to 2,500 people.
33:13Prince and U2
33:14had both played there.
33:18I can't even see
33:20the fucking controller right now.
33:22I'm so fucked up.
33:24Hunter Moore always took everything
33:26to the next level.
33:27There was no two ways about it.
33:30He was out of control.
33:31Carlos often accompanied Hunter
33:39and remembers the general hysteria.
33:44These people would go crazy
33:46because in their idea
33:47of what they're expecting
33:49from when it's anyone at a party
33:50was,
33:51we're going to go there
33:51and go buck wild,
33:52get wasted,
33:53do a lot of drugs,
33:54get naked,
33:55get fucked,
33:56meet a girl,
33:57whatever.
33:57So that's what it was.
33:58So if you were a person
33:59that never really
34:01had that experience
34:02on your own,
34:03you knew that you could
34:03get that by going there
34:05because you knew
34:05there were other people
34:06going there
34:07with the same mentality.
34:08He was running
34:16all over the country
34:17doing interviews.
34:19He was DJing parties.
34:21DJ Hunter Moore
34:23from isanyoneup.com.
34:25It became,
34:26they would pay him
34:27like $2,500
34:28or whatever they would pay him.
34:29Hey, come DJ the party
34:31and they would put his face
34:32on a flyer.
34:34And he just,
34:35at that point,
34:36he was just living,
34:39enjoying what he created
34:41and trying to take
34:42the fruits of it.
34:53Being surrounded
34:54by his worshippers
34:55for the first time
34:56in real life,
34:57he was experiencing
34:58his hour of glory.
35:02Hunter Moore
35:03was transformed
35:04by all these parties.
35:06and every time
35:12he would come to party,
35:13he would be
35:14on a completely
35:15different level.
35:17He would be
35:18drinking a lot more,
35:23using a lot more drugs,
35:25cockier, angrier,
35:28feeling that he was invincible.
35:29and at that point,
35:32the more he became
35:33that person,
35:34Hunter Moore,
35:35the more he became
35:36the most hated man
35:37on the internet,
35:38the more I started realizing
35:39that that friend
35:41that I first met
35:42in the beginning,
35:43that person,
35:45now it was
35:46a completely different human.
35:47what with his fame
35:50in the virtual world
35:51and now these
35:52incredible parties,
35:53Hunter Moore
35:54felt invincible,
35:56to such an extent
35:56that he cut himself off
35:58from the few people
35:59who'd stood by him.
36:00and this is the moment
36:03that we stopped in France.
36:05He, there was a party,
36:08said he went to a party
36:09that was happening
36:11in Long Island, New York.
36:14I lived there at a time.
36:15He would stay with me
36:15every time
36:16and we were there
36:18and there were
36:19a ton of people.
36:20There was this one girl
36:21that he wanted
36:22to hook up with
36:23and he accused me
36:26of trying to make a move
36:27on this girl
36:28that he was
36:29when all I wanted
36:31was to talk to her friend.
36:33So I looked at him
36:35and I said,
36:35you're serious.
36:37You can't be
36:38like serious right now.
36:39I'm the only person
36:41who is your friend.
36:45None of these people
36:46are your friends.
36:48Hunter Moore
36:50was out of control
36:51on his website too
36:52and was losing
36:53his early supporters.
36:55The website took a direction
36:57that I wasn't comfortable
37:00with dealing with it.
37:01I didn't like getting emails
37:03and calls
37:04about people saying,
37:06hey, take down my picture.
37:07I can't find a job.
37:09It was out of control
37:10and I just,
37:11I started to really disagree
37:13with what the website was about.
37:18By this stage,
37:19Hunter Moore was bragging
37:20to the press
37:21that his website
37:22was getting 5 million hits a month.
37:25Hundreds of photographs
37:26had been posted.
37:28It was one of those photographs
37:30which led to his downfall.
37:38It was January 2012.
37:41Hunter Moore had posted
37:41a new photograph
37:42on Is Anyone Up?
37:46The picture had been taken
37:47several months earlier
37:48in a house
37:50in a posh suburb
37:51of Los Angeles.
37:53Alone in her bedroom,
37:54Kayla had taken
37:55and a topless photo
37:56of herself.
37:57There were hundreds
37:58of selfies like this
37:59on Hunter's website.
38:01Only this time,
38:02the photograph
38:03hadn't been shared
38:04with anyone else.
38:09I didn't do anything wrong.
38:10I didn't send the photo
38:11to anybody.
38:12It was literally
38:13privately saved
38:14in my email
38:15in a folder
38:16just titled
38:18My Pics.
38:19And I would have photos
38:20of my family,
38:21my dogs.
38:22You know,
38:22I have family back
38:23in New York
38:24and dishes of food
38:27that I made
38:27that I was proud of
38:28and then photos
38:29of me, you know,
38:31topless
38:31or sexy photos
38:33of me in lingerie
38:34and photos I just
38:35wanted to keep
38:35of myself
38:36because I thought
38:36I looked good.
38:37I didn't think
38:38that they were ever
38:39going to be taken
38:39by anybody.
38:41It was private
38:42and I never sent
38:43it to anybody
38:43so I was,
38:45I was in shock
38:46and I didn't know
38:47how to react.
38:50Kayla immediately
38:51told her mother,
38:52Charlotte Laws.
38:53Charlotte had lived
38:55a thousand lives
38:56as a writer,
38:57a political activist
38:58and a TV presenter.
39:00She'd also been
39:01a private detective
39:02for several years.
39:07Horrified,
39:08she took the affair
39:09in hand.
39:10At this point,
39:11she knew nothing
39:12about Is Anyone Up
39:13and its founder.
39:15But she went online
39:16and soon discovered
39:17the man she was preparing
39:18to go to war with.
39:20There was a lot
39:21of press on him
39:22and I was able
39:22to research that.
39:24I was able to find
39:24information from
39:26so-called victims
39:27saying,
39:29Hunter Moore's big
39:29and bad,
39:30don't go after him,
39:31don't ask him
39:31to remove your content
39:32or he'll come after you
39:33even worse.
39:37Far from being discouraged,
39:39Charlotte set to work.
39:40First,
39:41she sought to get
39:42any photos of her daughter
39:43removed from the website
39:44as quickly as possible.
39:46She sent her first email.
39:49Dear Hunter,
39:50please remove all photos
39:52of Kayla Laws.
39:55She got no reply,
39:57so she tried another strategy,
39:59harassment.
40:00One by one,
40:01she contacted everyone
40:03who was in contact
40:04with Hunter Moore,
40:05hoping to touch
40:06a raw nerve.
40:07I also was reaching out
40:12to anyone and everyone
40:13associated with Hunter Moore
40:14because I wanted to put
40:16pressure on all of them
40:17to help.
40:19So I contacted
40:20his attorney,
40:21Reza Sina,
40:21on multiple occasions.
40:22I contacted
40:23the head of his
40:25internet security company.
40:27I contacted his mother.
40:28I was trying to call
40:29his mother.
40:30I called her workplace,
40:31but she had left
40:32that workplace.
40:33So I talked to her
40:34former associates,
40:36and they were like
40:37all huddled around
40:38the phone going,
40:38oh my God,
40:39I can't believe
40:40he has a sight like that.
40:41And then apparently
40:42it got back to
40:43Hunter and his mom
40:45because then Hunter
40:46put on Twitter,
40:47oh, someone just called
40:48my mom's former workplace.
40:53Strategy worked.
40:54And in less than 10 days,
40:56Hunter finally removed
40:57the photographs.
40:58But Charlotte
40:59didn't stop there.
41:01She hadn't forgotten
41:02that the topless photograph
41:03of her daughter
41:04had never been shown
41:05to anyone else.
41:07Convinced that Kayla's
41:08computer had been hacked,
41:10she continued
41:11her investigation.
41:14My daughter was up there.
41:16She's noticed
41:16one of her friends
41:17was up there.
41:19And so I talked
41:20to her friend's husband,
41:22and they said
41:23they were hacked as well.
41:25And so I thought,
41:26see, I didn't know
41:27anything about revenge porn
41:28before my daughter's case,
41:29and now her friend's case,
41:31and they were both hacked.
41:32So the only two people
41:33I knew in this entire world
41:35were hacked people.
41:36So I thought to myself,
41:37I wonder how many
41:38other hacked people
41:39are on Hunter Moore's website.
41:42She spent weeks
41:44collecting the names
41:45of Hunter Moore's
41:46latest victims.
41:47She contacted each of them
41:49and patiently listened
41:51to their stories.
41:52Her investigation
41:54exposed Hunter Moore's
41:55biggest lie yet.
41:57And that's when
42:00I started reaching out
42:02to all these victims.
42:03I started contacting people
42:04who were depicted
42:05on the site
42:06to find out
42:07how they got on there
42:08and doing a study.
42:11And that's when
42:11I came to learn
42:12that 40% of the people
42:14had been hacked,
42:1512% had been photoshopped.
42:19Charlotte Laws
42:20had found the flaw
42:21that could topple
42:22the king of revenge porn.
42:24Is anyone up
42:25might have been protected
42:26under the Communications
42:27Decency Act,
42:28but hacking was most
42:29definitely a federal crime
42:31in the U.S.
42:32Charlotte had to call
42:33on all her strength
42:34of character
42:34to convince the FBI
42:36to listen to her.
42:39So I contacted the FBI
42:40and the FBI initially said,
42:43just file a report online.
42:45And I knew that meant
42:47that they were just too busy
42:48with other cases
42:50and weren't going
42:50to do anything.
42:51So I said,
42:52oh, I see.
42:53You help Scarlett Johansson
42:54when she gets hacked,
42:55but you don't help
42:56the average person.
42:58And the person
42:59on the other line,
43:00on the other end
43:01of the phone says,
43:02okay, just a minute,
43:03let me transfer you
43:04to a detective.
43:07For Charlotte Laws,
43:09the gloves were off.
43:11To increase the pressure
43:12on Hunter Moore,
43:12she told the media
43:13about her investigation.
43:15And on the 12th of May,
43:162012,
43:17the affair was brought out
43:18into the open.
43:20Panic-stricken,
43:21Hunter tried to make
43:22himself invisible.
43:25So that was the point
43:26at which he actually
43:27took his anyone up down.
43:30And then the Village Voice,
43:32you know,
43:32reported that the,
43:34that, you know,
43:35the federal government
43:36was actually investigating him,
43:38that there were
43:39some serious legal charges.
43:41And when Hunter Moore
43:43took it down,
43:43he said, oh, you know,
43:44I'm sick of bullying.
43:46Like, I think the world's
43:47a better place
43:48without is anyone up.
43:49but what was really
43:50going on is that,
43:51you know,
43:52the FBI was coming
43:53after him
43:53and I think he got scared.
43:58For the first time,
43:59Hunter Moore
44:00was marking time.
44:02His business
44:02had gone under,
44:03but he was so addicted
44:04to celebrity
44:05that he failed
44:06to lie low for long.
44:08He kept frantically
44:09protesting his innocence
44:10on Twitter.
44:15He kept denying it
44:17and denying it
44:17and denying it.
44:18He knew the truth
44:19and he just kept
44:20wanting to cover it up
44:21because he didn't want
44:22anyone to start hating him
44:24because really,
44:25he just wanted to be loved.
44:27Hunter continued doing
44:29what he knew best,
44:30provoking.
44:31In a series of tweets,
44:33he targeted his adversaries,
44:35thus making the names
44:36of Charlotte and Kayla Laws
44:37public.
44:39It was totally a war for me
44:41and it became
44:41a bigger and bigger war
44:43as Hunter Moore
44:44learned my identity.
44:45Then his followers
44:46started coming after me.
44:47I got death threats,
44:49I got computer viruses.
44:50We even had someone
44:51come out into the front yard
44:53and sit there
44:55and then we walked up
44:56to them and said,
44:57you know,
44:58can we help you?
44:58And he rushed off,
44:59almost crashing
45:00into like a wall
45:01and he drove by
45:03like on two separate days.
45:05It became a huge,
45:06huge battle
45:07and it became kind of scary
45:10because when you have
45:10all these people
45:11making threats,
45:12you don't know
45:12who they are.
45:13They're faceless.
45:14You don't know
45:14if they're guys
45:15who just got out of prison
45:17who have a gun
45:17or if they're just kids
45:18playing around
45:19trying to make you scared.
45:20Then,
45:30an unexpected ally
45:32joined forces
45:33with Charlotte Laws.
45:34In December 2012,
45:36a mysterious group
45:37of hackers
45:37called Anonymous
45:38published this video
45:39on the web.
45:40Operation Get Hunter
45:42was launched.
45:45Anonymous,
45:46which at the time
45:47was orchestrating
45:48a lot of public campaigns
45:49against people
45:50that they thought
45:51were doing bad things.
45:53So, you know,
45:54they'd gone after Scientology
45:55and then they decided
45:56they wanted to go
45:56after Hunter Moore.
45:57And so,
45:58the underground group
45:59Anonymous called me
46:00and they said,
46:02and it was a guy
46:03from,
46:04a southern guy,
46:04I believe from Kentucky
46:06actually,
46:07and he said,
46:07we know that
46:08Hunter Moore
46:09and his followers
46:10are attacking you
46:11on Twitter
46:12and don't worry,
46:13we're going to protect you.
46:14A few weeks later,
46:16Hunter Moore's
46:17personal data
46:17was hacked
46:18and made accessible
46:19to all.
46:22They crashed
46:22his personal website,
46:24they put out
46:25a bunch of
46:26personal information
46:27including a social security
46:28number on the internet
46:29and they gave me
46:31some information
46:32on how to beef up
46:33my security
46:34for my network
46:35and my computer.
46:38As for the FBI,
46:39they made some
46:40staggering discoveries.
46:42Investigators discovered
46:43that since 2011,
46:45Hunter had been
46:46calling on a man
46:47named Charles Evans
46:48to hack into private computers
46:49and steal photos.
46:55This mail
46:56shows the precise instructions
46:58given to the hacker.
47:00Six guys
47:01and six girls.
47:03Obsessed with the popularity
47:05of his website,
47:06the king of revenge porn
47:07had overstepped the mark,
47:09paying up to $250
47:11for these stolen photos.
47:12He would say that he needed
47:16not just the regular girls,
47:18he needed prettier girls.
47:20The website needed better content,
47:24he needed more attractive girls.
47:25The FBI carried out a search
47:30of the home of Hunter Moore
47:31in Woodland.
47:32For the first time,
47:33the most hated man
47:35on the internet
47:35sensed that he was
47:37really in danger.
47:40One day,
47:41I got a phone call
47:43while I was on a trip
47:44with my family
47:45and the phone call was,
47:47hey,
47:48the FBI is at my door.
47:50and I was like,
47:53you have big boy problems
47:54now, Hunter.
47:55This isn't small claims,
47:56this isn't someone
47:57telling you
47:58to take down my pictures.
48:00Like,
48:00take this seriously
48:02and you need to hire
48:03a lawyer to do it.
48:04He knew all these things
48:05were happening,
48:06but he thought that
48:06these were all unrelated.
48:08He didn't know
48:09that I started
48:10the FBI investigation.
48:11He didn't know
48:12all this stuff
48:12was completely related
48:13and that we had all these,
48:15you know,
48:15we had an entire
48:16coalition built.
48:17He didn't know that
48:18and that's why
48:19I think he was depressed.
48:20He could not believe
48:21that the victims
48:22had fought back
48:23against him.
48:26In February 2014,
48:29Hunter Moore
48:29was finally arrested
48:30at his home
48:31by the Sacramento police.
48:36He went on trial
48:38in 2015
48:39and was sentenced
48:40to two and a half years
48:41in prison
48:42and fined $500,000
48:43for the unauthorized
48:45access of a computer
48:46and aggravated
48:47identity theft.
48:49Is Anyone Up
48:50might have been
48:51a short-lived phenomenon
48:52lasting just two years,
48:54but its impact
48:55has turned our notions
48:57of voyeurism
48:57and privacy
48:58upside down.
49:02He's a charismatic leader.
49:04He's like Charles Manson.
49:05Charles Manson
49:05was a charismatic leader.
49:07He gets people
49:08to follow him,
49:09people to worship him,
49:10people to love him.
49:11He just had a great,
49:13great way of manipulating people
49:15and making them think
49:17that he didn't do anything wrong.
49:19And I don't know
49:20how he did it.
49:21And to be honest,
49:22it was somewhat of a gift
49:23because not many people
49:25can do what he did,
49:26but it was not a good thing.
49:29And I feel like most criminals
49:30are good at what they do.
49:35Hunter Moore
49:36is due to be released
49:37from prison in 2018.
49:38Meanwhile,
49:40the question of revenge porn
49:41remains unresolved.
49:43So he wasn't actually arrested
49:45because of revenge porn.
49:47He was arrested
49:47because of identity theft
49:49and impersonation
49:51and the hacking charge.
49:54So he could have continued
49:57operating his website
49:58quite possibly
49:59had he not been obtaining
50:01the images that way.
50:04Gradually, U.S. states
50:06are passing laws
50:07to protect victims.
50:08But several revenge porn websites
50:10are still active today.
50:12The issue of privacy
50:13on the Internet
50:14is far from settled.
50:16are still active in sight.
50:22For more than one of them,
50:23it's already S.
50:23The internet
50:24could have been
50:25New Escob.
50:25There's in the multitude
50:26of the saints
50:26on the Amendment
50:26in the Internet
50:28and we can see
50:28the public
50:29andby Spring brew
50:29and the black
50:30comes in front of a
50:31revisit.
50:32Thei
50:32and the
50:33knight
50:33One
50:34of the
50:34voice
50:34The
50:35two
50:36Hclock
50:36in the
50:37manner
50:37will
50:38even
50:38closely
50:38have
50:39to be
50:40Legenda Adriana Zanotto
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