NZ, which has since removed the link to the material. Users have categorised women by the town, cities and counties they live in then included subcategories with their names. The multimillionaire internet mogul was arrested on copyright infringement charges in and last year lost an appeal in New Zealand against extradition to the United States to face the charges.
NZ is a reboot of file sharing site Megaupload, which was founded by German-Finnish internet mogul Kim Dotcom pictured in The Act makes it a criminal offence for a person to: 'disclose a private sexual photograph or film if the disclosure is made a without the consent of the individual who appears, and b with the intention of causing that individual distress'. It means those who maliciously share sexually explicit images without the subject's consent could face up to two years in prison.
The law covers the sharing of images both on and offline. Images posted to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are covered by the offence, as are those that are shared via text message, email, on a website or via physical distribution.
The offence covers photographs or films which show people engaged in sexual activity or depicted in a sexual way or with their genitals exposed. Mikala Monsoon, 23, from Glasgow, discovered her photos were on the site after being sent a link by an old school friend. She told Metro someone uploaded intimate photos of her when she was 17 and they have resurfaced online over the last six years.
Ms Monsoon has since changed her name and moved away from her home in a bid to escape. She told Metro : 'I've been so mortified, upset and anxious but now I am just angry. She told me I was on this website. Ms Monsoon reported the site to police in Glasgow last week, but it is still live with all the pictures freely available to download.
The offence of disclosing private sexual images without consent became illegal in in England and Wales, and carries a maximum sentence of two years. Alice Ruggles, 24, left was murdered by her former boyfriend Trimaan Dhillon right in after he broke into her flat in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Dhillon had threatened to share images of Miss Ruggles online. Police Scotland confirmed the incident has been reported and 'enquiries will be carried out'. Scotland and Northern Ireland introduced legislation outlawing revenge porn in Revenge porn is currently categorised as a 'communications crime', meaning victims are not granted anonymity.
While no automatic reporting restrictions are in place, victims in revenge porn proceedings can apply to the courts for reporting restrictions to provide lifetime protection from being identified in the media. However, in the same time period, the number of charges has dropped by almost a quarter - from to In the last year, more than a third of victims decided not to proceed with the case.
Campaigners believe this may be because they are not granted anonymity and face having personal details disclosed during any potential court proceedings. They have also warned that simply threatening to share images should also be classified as a crime. It comes after Alice Ruggles, 24, was murdered by her former boyfriend Trimaan Dhillon in after he broke into her flat in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Her mother, Dr Sue Hills, believes her daughter may have sought help sooner had Dhillon not first threatened her with releasing the photographs.
The charges brought against Kim Dotcom are varied, but the main thrust boils down to the allegation that Megaupload was fully aware that the website was used for copyright infringement and chose to do nothing about it. In fact, the charges claim that the website actively encouraged such behavior by incentivizing users with popular downloads while removing files that received little attention. The fact that the website was fully capable of policing the content it hosted is hard to dispute, seeing as it had systems in place to crack down on more nefarious file-sharing activities like child pornography.
The said provision protects websites that host copyrighted content so long as the websites either have no knowledge of it or act to remove the content once aware of it. Aside from the general copyright infringement case, the U. Since Dotcom resides in New Zealand, but the warrant for his arrest is in the U.
It took three years before this extradition request even made it in front of a judge. The next major update came from the New Zealand high court, which upheld the previous decision that Dotcom could be extradited but with a pretty significant caveat.
Since digital copyright infringement is not a crime in New Zealand, the judge concluded that this was not a basis for extradition. Dotcom and his legal team celebrated this decision, saying it was a step in the right direction for their case. Fortunately for the U. As is generally the case with compromise decisions like this one, though, neither side was entirely satisfied, and both filed an appeal pretty much immediately.
That brought both parties to the court of appeal, which made its decision in July However, it also gave him and the three other defendants the opportunity to appeal this decision yet again through a judicial review.
As mentioned, Dotcom now faces a judicial review, meaning he has the chance to appeal the decision on extradition. Your guess is as good as ours on when exactly this will go down. What do you think of the wild tale of Kim Dotcom and Megaupload? Do you have a clearer image of what exactly has gone down over the years, or are you just as confused as before?
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