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Scumbags all around in this case, unfortunately. The lawyer representing the other party in this case installs malware on the computers of people trying to pirate (one of his other) client's porn. The malware demands a paid settlement on a timer or it will lock access to the computer.

I shit you not.

I'm having difficulty imagining a set of circumstances under which the behavior described does not constitute a felony.

It's gay porn (Corbin Fisher). Maybe they're banking on the shame factor for some people.

I don't want to speculate on the legality of it but overall it's pretty damn offensive.

But it (the judgement) has nothing to do with revenge porn; it's about a tweet that the scumbag made, accusing someone of having child porn.

The world is not divided into scumbags and non-scumbags.

Sure it is, if you have a predicate for "scumbag?".

There is scarcely one definition you could conceive of which, if honestly applied, would be meaningful. Anyone living in the industrialized world with a shred of self-awareness and a remotely interesting life would have to concede that they themselves would be deserving of such a label, for some reasonable criteria.

Anyone who says otherwise is either BS'ing you, or boring. So there's your predicate: scumbags, and boring people.