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An American YouTube singing star who claims she was a victim of revenge porn when her ex-boyfriend posted explicit footage of her online is to sue the website in the British courts.
Chrissy Chambers, 25, has already launched a civil action against her ex but the law firm McAllister Olivarius said it had now served papers on the porn website that hosted the film.
Ms Chambers recently met the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and asked her if she would introduce a revenge porn law in the US if she made it to the White House.
Mrs Clinton did not specifically promise to introduce legislation but she told Ms Chambers: ‘I will do whatever I can to try and help you and help others who have spoken out because you are strong enough not to let yourself remain a victim. A lot of people aren’t. And so we have got to help you help you help them and I will certainly do everything I can to bring that about.’
Chrissy Chambers, a singer and video blogger who along with girlfriend Bria Kam has 580,000 followers and nearly 200 million views on her YouTube channel, claims her former partner posted the video out of vindictiveness.
Ms Chambers, who lives in Los Angeles and is better known as one half of BriaAndChrissy, said footage from seven years ago was made into videos and shared on a string of pornographic websites, clearly identifying her as the participant.
The legal action will be a landmark case because the suspect and the complainant are in different jurisdictions.
Her lawyer, Ann Olivarius, told the Sunday Times: ‘It will be the first time this has been done. This will be a game-changer case.’
Ms Chambers recently met the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who promised her she would do more to tackle revenge porn if she made it to the White House.
Revenge porn was made illegal in the UK last year, although the law does not apply to content involving Ms Chambers because it was already on the internet before the rules came into force.
Ms Olivarius said: ‘She is a lovely, sincere woman who was a young kid when this happened. It is clear on the video that she was terribly drunk.’
Ms Olivarius said the porn industry was partly to blame for the growth of revenge porn and she said: ‘The laws that exist do not do enough to protect victims.’
Ms Chambers met her British boyfriend thought a Facebook group she set up to research a college place in the UK.
She said it was her first serious relationship and she said: ‘I was very naive, innocent and trusting.’
Ms Chambers, an outspoken revenge porn campaigner, said her only route for reparations was to file a civil lawsuit to get copyright ownership of the videos, which were filmed in 2009.
She said recently: ‘These videos by now have racked up tens of thousands of views and have been shared to more than 35 pornography sites.
‘Because my ex filmed the videos, he owns the legal copyright to them. Since he uploaded the videos from his home in the UK, the only legal option I have is to file a lawsuit there.
‘Without this fundraising campaign, we cannot afford to keep fighting. We want to fight for those who have been hurt, whose voices are being systematically taken away.
‘Victims deserve justice. They deserve to be safe, protected from – and justly compensated by – the aggressor.’
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Source: Daily Mail