The dark web is an unregulated series of sites accesses though a browser called TOR (The Onion Router).
SInce it is unregulated, it’s best (So I’m told) to use an old computer that is wiped of all personal data to access. The dark web is full of viruses, malware and spying code that you do NOT want on your daily use computer.
He was convicted because they proved in court that he hired a man to hack e-mail accounts and gain access to women’s hard drives and cloud storage. Some of the women’s photos were submitted by ex’s. But many, MANY were hacked and stolen off phones, laptops and icloud accounts.
Had all the images been submitted, the scum bag would have never been convicted because there was not and STILL not laws preventing posting private images if the person has shared them with someone else.