A man who stole naked photographs of a tv presentor from her computer and put them on the internet has had his sentence reduced on appeal, the Leeuwarder Courant newspaper reports.

The man’s 180 hour community service sentence has been cut to 30 hours and the compensation payment has been reduced from €5,000 to €3,000, the paper said. Only the €250 fine remains unchanged.
The court said that publishing naked photos of Manon Thomas is, in itself, not abuse. That depended on the context and nature of the pictures and that was not made clear in the prosecution documents, the court said.
However, the man was guilty of breaking copyright laws, the court said. He stole the photographs via an unprotected internet connection.
Last year, justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin said he was working on new legislation which would make it an offence to put stolen video clips, photos and other computer-based information on the internet.