In the beginning there was only darkness. Computers were a novelty and people’s social lives were limited to the handful of people who could tolerate being around them. The world was a far more savage place where someone you used to know in high school could eat a meal at a nice restaurant and you would never know about it.
Then Al Gore invented the internet and the world got a lot smaller, grosser, and somewhat better.
Almost as quickly as the world wide web went online, someone uploaded porn to it and found out you could charge whatever you want for other people to look at it. Years later peddling titty pics and fuck flicks is still one of the most profitable ventures on the internet.
Decades of forgotten porn businesses have left tons of erotic content on the internet and a man from Sweden found one more way to make money off of it- unfortunately it was illegal and he was promptly put in jail. Whoops!
The man’s scam was, in a nutshell, digital blackmail.
He ran a pornography website that allowed users to download porn videos with their mobile devices which sounds fair enough. However, through what we can only assume to be wizardry he obtained the personal information of his users and sent them bills for the porn they had downloaded with reckless abandon.
These users, unaware that the porn they were downloading would incur a bill, racked up fairly substantial tabs. When they panicked and read the fine print, it turned out failure to pay what’s due would result in their personal information and porn preferences being made public.
The man was reported to the authorities and charged with over 4,000 counts of extortion and attempted extortion which carried a sentence of two and a half years in jail. Yikes!
After it was revealed that all of these consequences were disclosed in the agreement users made when they initially made their downloads, the charges against the man were reduced to breaching Sweden’s Personal Data Act by publishing users’ information and he received an 8-month sentence.
If you learn anything from the Swedes who fell victim to this man’s scheme, it should be to always read the fine print. Alternatively, you can skip worrying about the legal consequences of getting your own rocks off and just get your porn from reliable sources like the Pornhub Network.
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