The HN is wrong, he didn't sold the images, the images were available for free.<p>I think it was a creepy stupid illegal [1] idea, but I think he was not motivated by money.<p>[1] He scraped the images from the site, that is probably illegal. And then he distributed them with a CC0 license that is also illegal if you don't have the copyright of the images.<p>Recent HN discussion of the TC report: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14228128" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14228128</a> (65 points, 1 day ago, 77 comments)