That, or ensuring that they're imprisoned for wire fraud, extortion, and/or conspiracy.
I think it was especially smart of these business geniuses to antagonize the former prosecutor who has decided to make a hobby out of destroying their lives.
The goal here isn't simply to take the site down; it's to get the operators of the site convicted of felonies. If that happens, I don't think there will be any great rush to score a couple hundred bucks a month running the next version of the site.
Ken (and later Marc) even offered to take down all his posts and stop trying to get the jokers sent to prison. They just needed to close up shop, taking down all the photos and keep them down.
Not for a lawyer (the one doing the pro bono representation) who may very well be doing this for the publicity value of taking on the cause. (Not to mention the time and effort it would take to pull off that strategy. And you'd have to find the info to post and make up fake info which would most likely violate something in the process).
True, but for the data couldn't you just randomly sample from an address book or just make up addresses? You could attach hundreds of photos to addresses (reals ones) and hundreds of addresses to each photo.
Without credibility humiliation would be very difficult.
Also, where are the anonymous vigilantes who target child porn?
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