If I remember right the girls-gone-wild people got sued pretty hard.
A lot of those girls go to spring break to have a good time, and it’s not that I condone illicit sexual encounters, but they drink a lot and get taken advantage of in their impaired cognitive condition. They don’t think people are going to be taking video of them and posting it all over the internet.
Revenge porn is a violation of people’s privacy but it’s a horse of a slightly different color. Rather than being preyed upon in their impaired state by someone they don’t know, they have had their privacy violated by someone that they trusted at one time.
I agree with the others who have commented on here, if you don’t want to regret having your privacy violated, don’t take explicit pictures of yourself or have wanton sexual encounters. However, that doesn’t give people the right to violate your privacy.
He got sued for not paying income taxes. That’s all.
Same thing happened to the guy who set up the girlsdoporn.com website.
Most of the girls were college students who had never done porn before and he convinced them that the scenes would be put on DVD and sold to a small, discrete group of collectors in Australia and that they'd never wind up on the internet. This, of course, was a total lie. They went straight on-line. He plied the girls with booze to the point that most of them were completely intoxicated during the filming.
At the same time, he set up a forum website "pornwiki" or something like that where he'd doxx the girls' real names, social media profiles, family's social media profiles, friends, employers, etc. Other posters joined in and revealed the names of other porn actresses. At the time, you could search and find the real names and Facebook pages of almost every girl working in the industry. He was truly a despicable human being.
Several federal charges were levied against him and he was convicted in absentia. He's Australian and the last I read, was still on the lam.
Eventually, the porn empire Brazzers bought the wiki page, shut it down and destroyed the servers.