Okay, to me that's extortion, and I think it's only waiting for someone to take the necessary legal steps. It's true that the records are public, and the First

Okay, to me that's extortion, and I think it's only waiting for someone to take the necessary legal steps. It's true that the records are public, and the First Amendment needs to be honored, but an explicit payment demand turns it into extortion regardless of the status of the material. Old-fashioned pre-Internet blackmail is a crime, even though the information the blackmailer threatens to expose is usually true. In my view, this is an Internet version of blackmail, and it's only waiting for the authorities to apply existing laws to it.