Porn site to pay $12.7M to women who didn't know videos would be posted

&gt; In November 2015 60 emails and phone calls called for her to be expelled. The emails went to the dean of the law school, and to the head of the student body with links to the video.<p>What kind of evil person does this? Is there anything these monsters can be prosecuted for? At least the people who made the movies had a motive in greed. The people who sent these emails wouldn&#x27;t even gain anything. They are clearly nothing but malicious, bigoted and evil.

My wife fell victim to this before we met. I&#x27;m curious how we&#x27;d go about filing a case against the website. I send a message to the FBI a few years ago and never heard anything.

This is disgusting.<p>I am sure you can find enough people in the world who would voluntarily do this without coercion. Getting people drunk in another city&#x2F;state (?) and coercing them to do something else is rape territory, and I hope everyone involved faces criminal justice for that<p>It&#x27;s strange that the site is still up? I&#x27;m not visiting but, but how can there be civil and criminal charges and the site is still up...

(no disrespect intended to the victims in this story when I say this)<p>This is a cautionary tale in the world we live in today: Once something is recorded, it could be anywhere. Even without willful intent on the part of the owner, phones get lost or stolen, old hardware gets sold on ebay, cloud accounts get compromised, etc.<p>Have fun, but be careful.

<i>“I’m always paranoid when I meet new people that they have seen my video or [when I] meet new people [they] are going to say, ‘I know you.’”</i><p>That reminded me of a comment I saw in a discussion about being worried that someone would find out your real identity by noticing your profile on a fetish site --- and thus the correct response to that is &quot;I know you watch porn.&quot;

I wonder with facial recognition and etc if it would be possible that all sorts of sites would get caught up in this sort of thing where previously they thought they could just do whatever with the video and it likely wouldn&#x27;t be noticed?

was it hidden in the contract? just curious the extent of the lying.

Each woman was seeking 2 million from what I&#x27;ve found online. The judgement ended up being a payout of 12.7m sum and that&#x27;s for splitting between 22 victims with their representation. I wonder how much each person walked away with after their attorneys were paid. I&#x27;ve not witnessed justice in my life but I like to think they will be happy with the judgement even though it&#x27;s a lot lower than they sought.

In the future everyone will know a pornstar and nobody will care

Reading through comments I feel like being from completely another world. While an option is to simply stay silent, I struggle to understand how that plot ends up unquestioned by everyone except lawyers. Is it self-censoring in action? Because I feel self-censored.

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If you don’t want a video of yourself in the Internet, don’t make a video. I always assume that any picture I take can leak to everyone anytime. How naive can you be? Someone pays you money to have sex with a stranger (prostitution in my mind) and take a video of it. And she really thought they wouldn’t sell the video?

This whole thing is idiotic. The lying producers are assholes. The women are idiots for trusting anything told to them in this context by complete strangers motivated only by money. In the words of Shakespeare, &quot;all are punished&quot;.<p><i>&gt;“These are millennial women who grew up with the internet – they knew the consequences of pornographic videos ending up online which is why they asked where the videos were going before they were lied to.&quot;</i><p>I&#x27;m not sure they did, really. That last sentence should end with &quot;knew the consequences of pornographic videos ending up online which is why <i>they wisely chose not to risk doing porn.</i>&quot; Maybe college should teach mandatory classes on risk management.<p><i>&gt;Her life, she says, is irrevocably changed, and her hopes of a legal career have been ended.<p>“I do not want a career as an attorney. My name is completely destroyed.”</i><p>I hope somebody explains to her this isn&#x27;t necessarily true. There are places and firms in the country more sex-positive and&#x2F;or forgiving where this won&#x27;t destroy her life and she can still be an attorney. She also pretty much has a ready made career as an attorney focusing on sex-trafficking and similar fields.