LOS ANGELES—We don't really know if this guy is an official millennial at the tender age of 30, but we kind of think he's in the age group that should know better than to post secretly recorded sex with live-in girlfriends (or boyfriends) to a tube site. Unless of course the intention is to get caught, publicly humiliated on site after site, arrested and even possibly fired, in this case from a sweet gig as digital news producer for NBC News.
Yes, Carlo Dellaverson should have known better and should have been better, but maybe, despite his apparent tech chops, he assumed that no one actually watches porn on tube sites like XTube, which is where he uploaded the couple's Valentine's Day lovemaking he had secretly recorded with a camera hidden in the apartment they shared.
He might actually have gotten away with it, but according to the NY Post, "The woman discovered the video on the accused perv’s home computer several months later on Sept. 4 — and promptly dumped Dellaverson and moved out of the love nest."
She did more than that. "She later emailed the University of Richmond grad asking him why he posted the video for the world to see—and he confirmed in his reply that he had put the steamy footage online," reported the Post. "The victim filed a police report and Dellaverson was arrested at his home Tuesday morning and charged with disseminating unlawful surveillance and harassment."
Dissemination of unlawful surveillance is a class E felony, which carries up to a four-year jail sentence. Depending on the level of harassment, it looks as though New York makes those infractions either a violation or class A or B misdemeanors.
In addition to criminal sanctions he faces, Dellaverson may also be looking for a new job. NBC News replied to a request for comment by Politico, telling the site, "We are taking the matter very seriously, and will determine the appropriate course of action once we have learned the facts.
While this incident as alleged is certainly creepy, it is not specifically "revenge porn," which by definition includes identifying information about the victim of the unauthorized dissemination.
One other thing to keep in mind is that this sort of thing would happen much more rarely if tube sites actually required uploaders to provide 18 USC 2257 documentation about the people in the videos they upload. The Communications Decency Act may give XTube and the others a pass in terms of them having to maintain or out-source the documentation-keeping for user uploaded content, but every uploader is still legally required to do so under U.S. law. Good luck with that one, though.
