Anonymous extortion threatening to release something that is trivial to copy is not going to work, because there is nothing to guarantee more money will be requ

Anonymous extortion threatening to release something that is trivial to copy is not going to work, because there is nothing to guarantee more money will be requested next week, or that the material will not be released later. As far as selling it, the price cannot be very high, because nobody has that much to gain from being the first with the pictures. It's illegal material after all, so magazines can get in trouble for buying it. Put it in a shady, for-pay site, and with it being illegal material and all, it'd be in a torrent in minutes, so how many times will you really sell it? If it was, say, a presidential candidate doing hard drugs and cheating on his wife with a man, then maybe you could say that the opposition would be willing to pay for the pictures to be released, regardless of how they were obtained: There'd be millions at stake. A naked actress? not so much.