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By Jessica Roy 2/04 2:40pm

Victims of Revenge Porn Speak Out Against Craig Brittain, Founder of Is Anybody Down

When Hunter Moore shut down Is Anyone Up, the web’s most notorious revenge porn site, a host of copycat sites quickly cropped up to fill the void, though none have come close to generating as much traffic as Mr. Moore’s.

One called Is Anybody Down, however, goes a step beyond humiliating people by posting their naked photos without consent. The site claims to hold an “independent” partnership with another site that charges a $250 fee for the removal of photos. Now several women in Colorado are speaking out against its founder, Craig Brittain, and these extortionist policies.

By Jessica Roy 1/21 10:58am

Ms. Toups being filmed for a video news segment about her experience with revenge porn. (Photo: Instagram/h0lliewood)

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. Read More

By Jessica Roy 1/18 1:05pm

Mr. Moore (Photo: Showclix)

Revenge Porn King Hunter Moore Claims He’s Getting His Own TV Show

Hunter Moore, the web’s vilest revenge porn entrepreneur, announced on Twitter early this morning that a television show he has been working on has been picked up. Mr. Moore is notorious for running the revenge porn hub Is Anyone Up, where scorned people submit racy pictures of their exes without their permission. The site was shut down last year, but Mr. Moore has been planning to launch another site, HunterMoore.TV, for the last few months. Read More

By Jessica Roy 12/04/12 7:46pm

The Battle Over Revenge Porn: Can Hunter Moore, the Web’s Vilest Entrepreneur, Be Stopped?

The king of revenge porn had just slept with a girl on her 18th birthday at an inconspicuous hotel in Chinatown, and he claimed he had the cell phone snap of her driver’s license to prove it. Though he lives in San Francisco, the notorious Hunter Moore was in New York to serve a community service sentence following an incident in which he’d headbutted a go-go dancer.

“I was so coked out,” Mr. Moore told Betabeat, as we made our way from the lobby of his hotel to a Broome Street bar called Lolita. Tall and thin with ink-colored hair and eyes to match, wearing a black sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head, Mr. Moore sipped a rum and coke as we slid into a booth toward the back. Black tattoos reached like spiders across his arms.

By Jessica Roy 12/03/12 1:48pm

(Photo: Twitter)

An Interview with the Anonymous Member Who Launched the Campaign Against Hunter Moore and Revenge Porn

Last night, news broke that the hacktivist collective Anonymous had joined the fight against revenge porn by doxing Hunter Moore, the infamous proprietor of now-defunct revenge porn site Is Anyone Up.

In an interview with Betabeat, Mr. Moore said that his new site, HunterMoore.TV, would port over all of the old Is Anyone Up content, as well as include an address submission field so that naked photos were linked to a victim’s home address. “We’re going to introduce the mapping stuff so people are going to be able to stalk or do whatever they want to do–I know, it’s going to be scary as shit,” Mr. Moore said. “We’re just gonna add a new field and you can put their address in and then it will Google Map it.”

Mr. Moore has since retracted this statement, telling Salon that he will only be posting the addresses of those he hates, and not necessarily allowing users to submit addresses of their own. Still, his decision to further violate the privacy of those who appear on his new site caught the attention of Anonymous, which promptly launched #OpHuntHunter, a campaign focusing on holding Mr. Moore “accountable” for his revenge porn empire. Read More

By Jessica Roy 12/02/12 4:50pm

Anonymous Hunts Hunter Moore to Hold Him ‘Accountable’ For His Revenge Porn Empire

It was only a matter of time before Anonymous, the hacker collective known for being protectors of the free Internet, jumped into the revenge porn fray. Last night they announced #OpHuntHunter, an offshoot of the group’s anti-bullying operation that seeks to “hold Hunter Moore accountable for his actions.” Read More

By Jessica Roy 11/29/12 8:38am

Mr. Moore (Photo: ShowClix)

Hunter Moore’s ‘Scary as Shit’ Revenge Porn Site Will Map Submitted Photos to People’s Addresses

In an interview with Betabeat last night, infamous revenge porn peddler Hunter Moore shed some light on what his new smut submission site, HunterMoore.TV, will look like. Mr. Moore, who rose to prominence with the now-defunct revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp, intends to port all of the old content over from the original site onto the new one. Read More

By Jessica Roy 11/28/12 8:56am

(Photo: HunterMoore.TV)

Hunter Moore, the Infamous King of Revenge Porn, Is Back With a New Smut Submission Site

Remember Hunter Moore, the 26-year-old porn proprietor whom the Village Voice wrote “makes a living screwing you?” Mr. Moore’s site, Is Anyone Up, served as a platform for scorned exes and bored hackers to submit nude photos of people without their consent, along with links to their Facebook or Twitter profiles. After disappearing from the revenge porn circuit for awhile, he appears to be back in action with a new site, HunterMoore.TV.

The site is bare bones so far, with a Hunter Moore logo and two buttons, “Submit” and “Advertise.” [Update: The new site will map photos to people's addresses.] A welcome message penned by Mr. Moore himself outlines what the next iteration of Is Anyone Up will look like: Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 5/28 1:34pm

Meet Snapchat Leaked: A Website That Exposes Your Screenshotted Snaps

UPDATE: The Real Story Behind Snapchat Leaked, the Site Publishing Screenshots of Your Embarrassing Snaps

In case the hack of recovering supposedly deleted photos wasn’t enough to scare you away from Snapchat, then we found something even more terrifying. It’s called Snapchat Leaked (NSFW) and it confirms all of your horrifying nightmares about whatever naughty things you send on the app becoming public.

Mostly popular in Britain, Snapchat Leaked is a worrisome blog brimming with user-submitted screenshots alternating between the naughty (like butts, tits, etc.), the cheeky and whatever the hell this is. But worry not, topless snappers: the site doesn’t fully expose all of the pictures submitted by rabblerousers, as some of the boob pics have a strategically placed Snapchat logo over the nipples. The blog doesn’t reveal the user’s Snapchat ID either. Read More

By The Editors 12/27/12 4:30pm

BETA BEAT Celebrates The Pitch Series

The Best of Betabeat: A 2012 Retrospective

As 2011 came to a close, we looked back at our most popular posts. But this year, we’re a little older (a mature year and nine months!), a lot wiser, and thought we’d try something a little different. Thank you for reading!

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews Take a Hard Line on the Internet at Rally of 40,000 Men (And Me) In which our intrepid reporter sneaks into Citi Field in drag.

Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New Yor k’s Futurist Set It’s the end of the world as we know it, and they feel fine. Read More

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