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I'm not sure there is any relevant law. At the federal level it appears to require "obscenity" which is very hard to prove for anything short of child pornography.



IIRC, he photoshopped pictures of Kathy Sierra's kids into porn and posted them online, and emailed her graphic threats to rape her with a chainsaw, . It doesn't seem like you'd have a hard time convincing a jury of "obscenity".




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