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* Who's gonna stop me now? *

* Who's gonna tear me down? *

* Remember this is my game *

* Yes, it is... *

In the spring of 2012, I was asked to write an article on Hunter Moore

by Rolling Stone magazine.

* Say what you're doing... *

His website had been taken down,

but he had this huge following of adoring fans.

* Who's gonna stop me now? *

* Who's gonna tear me down? *

* Remember this is my game *

* Yes, it is *

* Who's gonna stop me now? *

* Who's gonna tear me down? *

* Remember this is my game *

* Head up, we got the same reason... *

When the website ended, it created a bigger Hunter.

You're seeing this guy, you know,

who got away with all this crazy shit on the Internet.

And now he was kind of traveling around big cities and DJing.

He's getting paid to get drunk and party with people.

So it's looking pretty promising for him.

It looks like at the end, he won.

Hunter was doing an East Coast tour.

And I went on the road with him.

This was the first article I was asked to write by Rolling Stone,

uh, so it was a huge deal.

I was very excited.

* Better get ready I'm coming for it all *

* Better get ready Up against the wall... *

A Hunter Moore party, you were in Boston,

doing New York City a couple times. What can people expect from you?

There's a lot of drugs and drinking involved, so yeah.

You know, we've had girls poop phones out on stage.

Like, it's pretty gangster. It's literally mayhem.

* Ready or not... *

I don't think anything could have prepared me

for what actually went down on that tour.

I mean, first of all, he was doing coke.

He's drinking a lot.

But women were just lining up outside the green room

to sleep with him.

It wasn't just about having sex.

It was about what he could do for shock value to post online.

So he was having women do lines of coke off of his penis.

He was drinking vodka out of their vaginas.

It was like Howard Stern meets Jackass every single night.

When it came to writing the piece, he was like,

"You can shut the site down, but you can't shut me down."

"And I am now the brand."

The impression I got was that he was escalating and escalating.

And he even said to me, like, "What more could I ask people to do?"

"How do I get more debauched than this?"

Even though the site was down, there was still no stopping Hunter Moore.

It had been months since the Hunter Moore investigation started.

At this point,

we know the identity of the hacker,

Charlie Evens.

But we needed hard evidence

there was a conspiracy taking place, uh, and that Hunter Moore was part of it.

He was playing, like, Mr. Innocent,

and "I didn't do anything, and I'm not hacking,

and I'm on the up-and-up, and everything's fine."

He really thought he was untouchable.

It was definitely apparent that Charlotte and Kayla

wanted to see resolution very quickly.

For the FBI, there's no quick fix for this.

We have to do our�investigation and gather evidence.

And if they really wanna see Hunter in jail, they need to give us some time.

One of the best ways to proving there was a connection between Charlie and Hunter

was to get a court order to look for email information between the two.

But I'm only seeing the time they were sent,

who they were sent to, and who they were sent from, nothing else.

This ended up being thousands of emails that I had to comb through.

But finally, we had a huge breakthrough for the case.

As I'm looking through these emails,

some of the patterns I'm seeing are right after a conversation

between Hunter and Charlie,

victims are appearing on Hunter's website.

It was kind of an aha moment for us.

There was the connection between Charlie and Hunter.

We're finding evidence that Hunter likely knows what's going on at a minimum.

But it really solidified what we had believed all along is that

Hunter and Charlie are working together.

When Jeff discovered

that Charlie Evens was communicating by email with Hunter Moore,

that was an important piece of evidence.

But we still needed to know what they were communicating about.

We really needed the content of the emails.

And if the emails were on any computer devices that Hunter used,

the better it'd be for taking the case to trial.

FBI surveillance confirmed that Hunter was residing at his parents' house

in a suburb just outside of Sacramento.

We executed the search warrant first thing in the morning

around 7:00�a. m.

He seemed nervous, um,

and a little anxious about what was going on.

We were looking for computers, storage drives, USB devices.

We would then conduct a forensic examination,

looking for the email content as well as the photos that were exchanged

between Charlie Evens and Hunter Moore.

Hunter admitted to knowing Charlie Evens and communicating with him,

but was not forthcoming about knowing

and being aware of the hacking that was going on.

He was not like he was on TV.

He wasn't yelling at us or trying to be rude or mean. He was very compliant.

But whichever Hunter Moore was the real Hunter Moore

didn't matter to the investigation.

Uh, the crime that took place was what mattered

and the effect on these victims and these people around him.

The day that Hunter got raided,

I was actually at school.

And it was a call from his mom.

I had never spoken to her before.

She was crying on the phone.

She didn't give me a lot of information 'cause she didn't know a lot.

And she didn't understand what was going on.

It was hours later that Hunter was able to contact me,

because the FBI took everything.

He was just scared.

I could hear it in his voice,

'cause whatever comes next after that isn't good.

So I was sitting in my office and monitoring Hunter's Twitter feed,

and he made a post

that said that he had to get all new electronic equipment,

a new phone, a new computer.

And I said to myself, "Clearly, he's been raided by the FBI."

It's the only reason he'd be getting all new electronics. They confiscated it.

An FBI raid is a pretty fearful thing.

I mean, that was a tremendous moment, and also a moment that... that says to you,

"You're gonna get prosecuted, mate."

He was going to be held accountable

for what he did to me and to all the other victims.

It finally felt like the tides were turning.

Charlotte called and said that the FBI had

finally raided Hunter's house.

That was my go signal to publish a story I'd been working on about the hacking.

So I had spoken to a number of victims who independently corroborated

that GaryJones815@gmail.com

was the email that was left behind after they'd been hacked.

You know, that's not a�coincidence. That's...

That's evidence of something.

Before I published my article, I called Hunter

and asked him�point-blank about the FBI allegations and hacking.

It's safe to say that he wasn't happy about it.

Hunter's exact words were, "If you write anything about an FBI investigation,

I will fucking burn down The Village Voice headquarters."

I was not gonna be bullied by Hunter Moore.

The reporting was solid.

The story was true.

Nothing was gonna stop me from publishing that story.

The Village Voice article was kind of almost a vindication,

because, finally, the hacking came to light.

Now it was there for the world to see.

But Hunter was not staying quiet.

He became more notorious, in a sense.

But then what I discovered confirmed my suspicions.

He was planning something even more dangerous for his victims.

The creator of IsAnyoneUp is working on a new website.

It's called huntermoore. tv, because his name is Hunter Moore.

He just told Beta Beat that the concept is the same.

You upload a compromising picture of someone with their name and profiles,

but now there's gonna be an address field and a map.

Here's a cute quote. "If someone killed themselves over being on IsAnyoneUp,

do you know how much money I'd make?"

Hunter announced that he was going to launch his new site.

He put it all over the press.

And he said he was going to bring back the same photos,

which, of course, meant my daughter's picture would go back up.

He said he was going to include the address of the victims

along with driving directions on how to get to their houses.

It just felt re-traumatizing for me.

He was a danger to everyone that he victimized,

came into contact with,

took photos from.

He didn't care. He felt like he could still do whatever he wanted.

He needed to be brought down.

This was, like, shocking to everybody.

You know, all of the victims I had spoken with, they thought,

"Oh no, our pictures are going back up,

and we're gonna go through this all over again."

IAU2 is launching, so...

Yeah, okay, what is IAU2 gonna be?

It's, uh, basically gonna be

the scariest thing on the Internet, to be honest with you.

And the best.

It goes beyond nude pictures. I mean, yeah, so...

Don't piss anybody off. -Shit's about to go down then.

Yeah. It's gonna be awesome.

Our investigation was making progress,

and we kept a very close eye on Hunter Moore and all of his activities.

But in terms of the new site being a revenge porn site,

my hands were tied when it came to investigating it.

The malicious activity, the illegal activity was hacking,

and so we had to focus on that.

And he obviously felt invincible.

"Ah, the FBI aren't gonna get me. No one's gonna get me. I can do anything I want."

You know, "I'm Hunter Moore."

I felt that the fact that he was going to bring back his site

with the victims' addresses was horrifying,

so I was gonna give him a taste of his own medicine.

I was gonna tweet his real home address.

He was putting a lot of incorrect,

you know, fake information out there about himself,

and for me to put his address on�Twitter

was like revealing who he really was

so people could find him and locate him and serve him with legal papers.

I didn't want her doing that.

This is just opening the door for her to

be attacked.

It's just dangerous.

You don't wanna play with fire.

I mean, no one told me it was a good idea.

I thought that it was important to let him know

the victims were now gonna fight. We're gonna fight harder than ever before.

Then, like, bam!

All the vitriol and all the hatred towards me,

all the comments started flying

from Hunter.

He said, "By the way,

when you and your daughter get my dick out of your mouths,

you will realize how hard I can troll you."

Then he said,

"Posting your daughter's nudes tonight. I am the Internet genius

and will ruin your life and your daughter's the fun way."

And then there were a bunch of posts from people in The Family, his followers.

One of them, "How about we shoot you in the head?"

Another one, "What a worthless cunt."

"Hope you and your slutty daughter die choking on a big fat cock."

I didn't regret tweeting his home address, but I was completely exposed.

You have no idea who these people are.

It's really, really scary.

My mom was trying to,

you know, make things right,

and they weren't having that.

They all blamed me,

saying that I'm a liar

and that I'm a whore.

The fact that my mom was scared,

scared me.

Then things got even worse.

And I got a phone call on my landline.

I picked up the phone,

and a voice said,

"We know where you live", and hung up.

I got another phone call

that said that, "We're gonna rape and kill you."

"We've ordered a body bag in size Charlotte."

Hang up.

So I felt like everything had really been, you know, ratcheted up,

you know, with Hunter Moore, and I felt like they're really coming after me now.

The house didn't seem like a safe place to me, so I went to the hardware store,

and I got locks

and put those locks on the side gates of�my property

so that nobody could get into the house from the back.

I was so worried

that someone might come in in the middle of the night

and try to attack us or,

who knows, rape us.

We put metal rods under my bed and under Kayla's bed.

In case an intruder were to come into the house,

we'd have a weapon to fight them off.

It's really all we knew to do.

We just knew we needed something to protect ourselves.

I never thought it was gonna come to this. I never thought it would go this far.

It was like a war, you know, between me and Hunter, it felt like, at that point.

But Hunter had all of his Family,

all these unpredictable, anonymous people who were on his side,

and I didn't know how to calculate that.

I didn't know what they could do, what they were capable of.

I refused to believe that what he was doing was wrong.

For people who have been in love,

or that crazy first feeling,

you know, I was holding onto that so hard.

Hunter called me

and told me about Charlotte Laws.

Basically, everything that she was doing against him

was the absolute worst.

The things that he and all of his followers

would say about her online were absolutely...

terrifying.

It scared me, honestly,

to see that it had come that far.

Charlotte Laws got under his skin

because he wouldn't have attacked her that way if she didn't.

If he feels threatened,

if he feels scared by somebody,

he won't let it go.

A few months after we purchased IsAnyoneUp

and was redirecting to BullyVille...

I was sitting at dinner with my family.

My wife was pregnant with our second child at the time.

And, uh, my phone basically almost melted

'cause there were so many inbound texts coming in.

And they all had the same preface, which was, "Hunter is on Twitter right now

and he is tweeting some horrific stuff about you, your wife, and your kids."

"You need to go look right away."

What Hunter had tweeted was along the lines of I was a pedophile,

that I had child porn on my computer.

That he was gonna rape my wife while my kids watched.

I absolutely wanted to kick the shit out of Hunter Moore

at that very moment in time.

Repeatedly.

To be a survivor of child abuse,

to be called a pedophile is the worst thing imaginable,

and it brought back a lot of memories,

and it just made me really hate him

and realize that I'm going to do everything legally possible

to completely destroy this guy's life.

You know, people say "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."

I wanted all of his fuckin' teeth.

After Hunter said he was gonna bring back his site,

and I was getting abused, harassed, and bullied,

I was hunkered down in my house.

I looked at Twitter,

and there was a message from someone who called himself Jack.

And he said he wanted to phone me.

And that's when he told me that he was from the group Anonymous.

He planned to go after Hunter.

He said, "Don't worry."

"We know what he and his followers have been doing to you."

"We're gonna protect you."

I didn't really know if Jack was the real deal or not.

It was kind of more of a hope he was real.

But the following day, Anonymous went after Hunter Moore.

Greetings, citizens of the world.

We are Anonymous.

This is a call to all Anonymous worldwide.

Hunter Moore, founder of previous revenge pornography site IsAnyoneUp.com,

is coming back stronger than ever from the shutdown of his previous website.

This time he is taking it a step further and plans to list physical addresses

next to the victims' pictures, along with a map to their house.

We will prevent the stalking, rape, and possible murders

as byproduct of his sites.

This is a call to all of Anonymous.

We will�hold Hunter Moore accountable for his actions.

I have quite a few friends in Anonymous, and

they became aware of not only Hunter Moore talking about launching his new site,

but also for going after my family.

So they wanted to help

to try and get this piece of shit completely off the Internet.

Anonymous is the real deal.

I mean, they're the hackers who paralyzed PayPal

when they stopped payments to�WikiLeaks.

These guys took down government websites in Egypt during the Arab Spring.

They've exposed pedophiles on the dark web.

Anonymous, as a collective,

is an organization you just do not fuck with.

And now their sights were set on Hunter Moore.

We knew that it was a very volatile situation with Hunter,

but we have to prove to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt

that the crime was committed.

And that's a very high standard to get the evidence that we needed.

The FBI investigation is a very, very long process.

So now, luckily, I had Anonymous on our side.

And I felt like, "Okay, I've got some backup here."

It was really great.

I was absolutely thrilled.

I mean, Anonymous are the cowboys in the white hats.

So it was a great day for Charlotte.

This had been a lonely battle for her.

We will protect anyone who is victimized

by abuse of our Internet.

Operation Anti-Bully,

Operation Hunt Hunter engaged.

We are Anonymous.

We are legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Hunter Moore, expect us.

They took down Hunter Moore's servers.

They wiped out all the data on those servers.

They wiped out all the backups to that data,

so he couldn't even restore from anything.

They wiped out his Social Security number.

They made sure that there was no way he could flee the country.

If he had an active passport, that was no longer active.

They hacked into his bank account.

Any money he had in there was allegedly transferred to a women's abuse shelter.

They shipped hundreds of dildos to his house.

They declared him dead in the state of California.

Hunter Moore didn't even exist for, like, a month. He was dead.

They wrecked every aspect of his life.

Now, I can't say that I'm in agreement

with the illegal activities,

because everything that was just mentioned is very illegal.

Although I can't say I agreed with it, I enjoyed the shit out of it.

So Anonymous goes and they hack my server, right?

I don't understand why Anonymous chooses these battles.

What gain do they get out of this?

This will just put into reality what a fucking joke Anonymous is.

They're all just 16, 17-year-old kids just being fucking morons.

But, you know, if you wanna come over here and deal with a real motherfucker, come.

I'll make a ton of money if you beat me up or I beat you up.

That's content for me. But nobody's ever came over here and nobody ever will.

Hunter was on Twitter saying it was no big deal

and, you know, he really wasn't affected by it.

Uh, let there be no mistake about it.

Hunter got trolled.

And actions speak louder than words

because, you know, whether he said it affected him or not,

IsAnyoneUp2, that website never went live.

It meant so much that Anonymous was willing to come help us,

and my photo wasn't reposted.

It was

a weight lifted off my shoulders.

Revenge is never pretty,

but when it's done intelligently, meticulously, and psychotically,

it sure is a thing of beauty.

Everything was changing.

I didn't see the same person that I met.

One day, I came across

Facebook message requests that I hadn't seen.

I had no idea that Facebook had a way of

hiding messages from people who weren't your friends.

And there was so many.

I found death threats.

"Tell your boyfriend

if he doesn't contact�me about my wife's porn

both of your lives will be ruined."

There was one message.

It's heartbreaking to see, honestly.

"Miss, I'm not trying to disrespect you

or your boyfriend."

"I'm just running out of ways to contact him and get through to him."

"I have a page up on the site

and I have never been filled with so much humiliation

and self-disgust in my life."

"Is there anything you can do to get through to your boyfriend

to please remove my page?"

"I'm not sure how much more of this mental pain and suffering

I can withstand."

And he sent that same message five times.

Sorry.

And then imagining the amount of messages like that that were sent to Hunter

that were completely disregarded.

I couldn't live with myself if

those were constantly coming in. There's...

I feel...

ashamed and upset.

I just wish I had known better

at the time.

And it's, like,

one of my biggest regrets

is not speaking up when I had a voice.

I was done.

I woke up in the middle of the night and just bought a one-way ticket to New York.

I couldn't handle the threats.

I couldn't handle the messages.

It got too much.

I just wanted to get out.

It still took us quite a while to go through the content of the emails

on his computer, on his phone between Hunter and Charlie.

But it was definitely worth the wait.

The email showed the conspiracy started around October 2011,

and it started when Charlie actually hacked into Hunter's account.

Once Hunter found out, he wasn't upset with Charlie.

He reached out to Charlie

and then began asking Charlie to work for him

to get photos from other people's accounts he hacked into.

We saw a pattern, um,

where Charlie would send photos to Hunter for payment,

and usually right after or within a day after,

Hunter would send money from either his PayPal account

or his bank account over to Charlie.

The photos would then appear on Hunter's website,

IsAnyoneUp.com.

In one of the email conversations between Charlie and Hunter,

Charlie points out to Hunter that this hacking is illegal,

but Hunter doesn't seem to care and is undeterred.

Based on all the evidence that we saw,

it would clearly establish a conspiracy between Hunter and Charlie.

We were now in a position to be able to arrest both Hunter and Charlie.

It feels good. I mean, you know these victims.

They're finally gonna see

some public end, um, to this turmoil they've been going through.

They're gonna see these people, who've hurt them and damaged them,

arrested because of the investigation and because of us.

It had been two years since all of this began.

And then one day, I got a call from Jeff of the FBI,

and he said in a very coy way,

"So, how are you doing?"

And then he told me that they had arrested Hunter and the hacker.

And so Kayla and I were elated.

Hunter Moore needed to be punished.

And he needed to be put in his place.

I was so happy.

Tonight, two California men face federal prison

after they were arrested in connection with running of a revenge porn site.

Hunter Moore, someone you might recall as "the Most Hated Man on the Internet",

has been nabbed by the FBI.

Hunter Moore is the man who created the revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.

A California man known as the king of revenge porn

is under arrest this morning.

Two California men accused of stealing naked photos

from hundreds of hacked emails...

He was taken into custody along with Charles Evens.

He's a 25-year-old.

They were arrested in connection with running a revenge porn site.

Kayla Laws is one of seven victims named in the indictment.

Hi!

Hunter, what do you have to say about the accusations against you?

Watch out, motherfucker. -Any comment?

He left the police station, and Hunter was released

to his parents on a $100.000 bond.

Watch out.

Hunter, you have anything to say about the accusations?

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, man, come on!

It was amazing because he was leaving with a jacket over his head.

He was trying to hide his identity. He didn't want photos,

and these reporters are trying to snap shots of him.

Just thought it was ironic that he didn't want his clothed picture

to be taken, and yet it was perfectly acceptable

to put nude pictures all over his website of everybody else,

but that was just not reasonable to take a clothed picture of Hunter Moore.

Hey, Hunter, pretty quiet. Where's all the mouth, all the talk?

Hunter and his attorney kept pushing the court date.

They don't wanna go to jail,

so they just keep postponing and postponing and postponing.

It was frustrating

because we had waited such a long time and we'd been through so much.

My God, how many years do we have to wait for Hunter Moore to get his comeuppance?

And then we were informed that he had taken a plea deal.

The operator of a revenge porn website, who posted stolen nude photos online,

has agreed to plead guilty

to the charges of hacking and identity theft.

You have anything to say to those people whose pictures you posted online

without their permission, nude, and ruin their lives?

Ultimately, Hunter and Charlie

ended up pleading to one count of unauthorized access

to a protected computer system to obtain information

and one count of aggravated identity theft.

I was happy with the plea agreement. There's more victims out there, yes.

But in this case, the number of charges

doesn't necessarily determine how much jail time you're gonna get.

Hunter Moore's sentencing took place on December 2, 2015,

at the United States District Courthouse in downtown Los Angeles.

It had been nearly four years after Kayla's picture was posted.

Kayla and I went to the courthouse,

and the fact that Hunter Moore was so arrogant still

I guess made me feel a little insecure.

We arrived at the courthouse,

and I remember feeling super nervous.

We weren't sure what was gonna happen.

At sentencing, Hunter's attorney went first,

and his argument on behalf of Hunter

was that Hunter had changed by then.

He's learned from his mistakes and is now a different person,

all the while continuing to deflect blame onto Charlie

and that Charlie was really the bad guy here.

He was a prolific hacker.

There's no concern regarding the victims. There's no apology to the victims.

He was not remorseful or contrite.

After the defense attorney made his statements and his arguments,

then the judge called Kayla up

to the podium to make her impact statement.

It allows victims to relay to the judge

the impact on their lives that the crime has had,

not just the facts of the case that we've presented to them.

Kayla Laws was the only victim,

uh, who decided to do this and gave a statement in front of the judge.

I was really apprehensive to make a statement at first

because there were a lot of emotions

confronting someone who does something like this to you.

What changed was

me thinking about all the women out there

and men who had been affected by him,

so I wanted to speak for everyone,

not just for myself.

Where did you get that strength from?

My mom.

I got that strength from my mom.

It was very bold of her to do this because she had been hiding

when this first happened and never wanted to come forward, and now there she was

in court showing her face, being bold, and she was in tears as she read it

because it was so traumatic and so difficult,

reliving everything she had been through.

"My privacy was violated by Hunter Moore,

a guy I did not know, a total stranger."

"He called himself a professional life ruiner."

"And that's exactly what he did to me."

"I found out my photos were online while at my then-waitressing job."

"I felt�exposed, ashamed, and broke into tears."

"I was hoping no one would see it."

"But within a day, I lost a role in a film,

not to mention the tens of thousands of strangers

who saw, commented on,

or even possibly saved the photo."

"While trying to remove the photo from the Internet,

my mom received threatening phone calls

and tweets from members of Hunter Moore's cult."

"Some people said they would kill her."

"This terrified me."

"I will carry the trauma of this experience with me

for the rest of my life."

One thing that happened that I will not forget is

Charlie Evens turned around to me.

He said, "I'm sorry."

And Hunter Moore stood there

looking unremorseful,

like he was hot shit,

and that he didn't have a care in the world

about what was happening right in front of him.

So after Kayla did her impact statement,

then it was up to the judge to make a decision

about how much prison time Hunter would get.

It's prison time for a man who created an infamous revenge porn site.

Hunter Moore, also known as "the Most Hated Man on the Internet, "

has just been sentenced to 30 months in prison

for his role in acquiring pornographic images for his website.

His accomplice, Charlie Evens, was sentenced to 25 months.

Moore paid Charles Evens of Studio City

to hack into women's computers and steal their naked pictures.

I thought it was a very light sentence.

But the positive was he was off the street. He was going to prison.

He wasn't gonna be able to continue to victimize women.

Hunter was banned from social media as well by the judge.

If you take social media away from Hunter Moore,

there's nothing there. It's like cutting off his head, in a sense.

That's who he was. Social media was him.

He was his Twitter page

and had been his website,

so it really was a huge blow.

The Family was never the same once Hunter went to prison

and Hunter wasn't, like, actively online anymore.

Everybody just kind of got bored.

There's, uh, no one here posting weird shit, you know,

and telling random bullshit stories. It's gone.

Hunter thought he would capitalize on IsAnyoneUp

and become a TV show host

or a podcast host.

But the one thing he didn't anticipate was

that there would be somebody like Charlotte Laws.

He anticipated everything else,

but he never expected an angry mother

to be his undoing.

The Internet is pretty much a lawless world.

It's like everybody's a cowboy out there, and you can do whatever you want

without rules and regulations for a large part.

It took a lot of effort.

It took years,

but we were able to bring Hunter Moore to justice in the end.

You know, it felt like finally a victory.

Hunter Moore, he went through so many people,

hacking so many people, posting so many people,

but then he got to me.

And along with me comes my mom,

and my mom is not a person you wanna cross.

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