Yesterday, a man from California was arrested on allegations that he ran an infamous revenge porn website which hosted sexual images of women, submitted by their ex-lovers.

This is the latest porn-related crackdown since revenge porn was outlawed in the state of Caifornia. Governor Jerry Brown signed a first-in-the-nation law in specifically targeting revenge porn.

That law defines revenge porn as “the posting of private, explicit photos of other people on the Internet to humiliate them.”

However, the 27 year-old Kevin Bollaert didn’t face any actual revenge porn charges, as the new law is aimed at those who post or submit the actual photos, rather than those who host the photos on a website.

Bollaert was charged instead under a California identity theft law which prohibits using or publishing identifying information of a person without their permission, and under anti-extortion legislation, according to court documents.

Unlike other revenge porn sites, Bollaert’s site required users to post the full name, location, age and a link to the Facebook profile of the victim, the Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.

Bollaert’s site, which has since been taken down, featured over 10,000 explicit photos. He charged women up to R3,500 to have their photos removed from the site.

Bollaert was remorseful in his affidavit:

I feel bad about the whole thing, and like I just don’t want to do it anymore. I mean, I know a lot of people are getting screwed over … Like, their lives are getting ruined.

[Source : Reuters]