About Me

SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA , JAMESMCGIBNEY.COM & BULLYVILLE.COM

James McGibney is an American entrepreneur and former Marine. He is the CEO and founder of Las Vegas, Nevada based ViaView, Inc., which owns and operates the web sites BullyVille.com, CheaterVille.com, CupidVille.com, KarmaVille.com, DramaVille.com, and IsAnyOneUp.com.

In particular, through bullyville.com, Mr. McGibney aggressively went after and shut down the three largest revenge pornography websites in existence. This has made him the target of numerous pedophiles, however as Mr. McGibney stated within his Wired article, "I'll never take my foot off the gas on people who go after children. And BullyVille allows me to do that. A lot of people might not agree with it and I just don't give a shit." There are countless negative and defamatory blogs authored by these pedophiles that target Mr. McGibney, nevertheless, he continues to help victims of revenge pornography and pedophiles through BullyVille, and does so free of charge.

Mr. McGibney has been featured on Netflix, VICE,  Anderson Cooper, ABC Nightline, Extra!, Dr. Phil, Maury Povich, Howard Stern, The View, Good Morning America and Dr. Drew. 

McGibney received a master's degree in criminal justice degree from Boston University and attended Harvard Business School for his Executive Education. On August 16, 2021, McGibney earned Harvard University's Cybersecurity Certification: Managing Risk in the Information Age. On May 18, 2024, Mr. McGibney earned his Doctorate in Learning Technology at Pepperdine. 

McGibney served in the United States Marine Corps, serving tours of duty with Third Surveillance Reconnaissance Intelligence Group (overseas deployment) and Marine Security Guard Battalion. He was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal while serving as the Operations Chief at Marine Security Guard Battalion in Quantico, Virginia.

McGibney founded SecuraTrak, a patented wireless satellite-based asset tracking system. He authored numerous patents based on wireless and GPS technology, in particular Patent 6,850,839 (spatial zone tracking) and Patent 6,509,867 (article tracking device). SecuraTrak was eventually acquired by a publicly traded company. He has over 40 trademarks filed with the USPTO.

McGibney was the first person in the world to launch Cisco UCS Blade Technology and did so within a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company (Tutor-Perini.) He was awarded Cisco's IT Excellence Pioneer award. 

In February 2011, McGibney announced the website Cheaterville.com, where anonymous users could post claims of infidelity, alongside names and pictures of those accused.  CheaterVille was fortunate to land its first TV deal with Warner Brothers and Telepictures. McGibney started websites based on similar user participation later in the year, as well as a matchmaking website.

In June 2012 he announced he would host his own radio show, VocalVille, on CBS radio station KXNT-FM in Las Vegas.

In April 2012, McGibney purchased controversial revenge porn site Is Anyone Up? from Hunter Moore for less than US$12,000. Web traffic for the site was redirected to BullyVille.com. This effectively shut down the previous site, and was the stated intent of McGibney. Three days after the transaction, Moore used his Twitter account to accuse McGibney of being a pedophile, of possessing child pornography and threatening to rape McGibney's wife.

McGibney sued Moore for defamation in Nevada's Clark County District Court in February 2013. The court entered a default judgment against Moore in the sum of $250,000.00 plus court costs, attorney fees and accrued interest. That judgment now stands at $326,806.00. Hunter Moore was subsequently sentenced to 2 1/2  years in federal prison. McGibney secured a second judgment against revenge pornographer  Kevin Bollaert for $330,000.00. Mr. Bollaert was subsequently sentenced to 18 years in prison.

In December 2015, McGibney was ordered to pay a $1 million Anti-SLAPP court sanction and $300,000 in attorney's fees to fugitive Neal Rauhauser for (as Judge Donald Cosby of the 67th district court concluded), "filing a series of baseless lawsuits against him for stalking and harassment." This was the largest sanction ever in the history of the United States judicial system. The ruling was temporarily reversed when the presiding judge granted McGibney's request for a new trial in February 2016, but reinstated in favor of Rauhasuer on 14 April 2016 with the SLAPP sanction against McGibney reduced from $1 million to $150,000. The judge ruled that McGibney had filed the suits to willfully and maliciously injure Rauhauser and to deter him from exercising his constitutional right to criticize McGibney. McGibney immediately appealed and on April 19, 2018 a three judge panel in the Texas 2nd District Court of Appeals vacated the monetary and non-monetary sanctions findings, and reversed and remanded the amount of attorney's fees awarded in ruling that the trial court had abused its discretion. The court of appeals further reversed the finding of "willfully and maliciously" and noted that Rauhauser's attorney had engaged in a "troublesome pattern of heavy front-end loading of legal work" in an affidavit justifying the attorney's fees he sought. Rauhauser appealed to the Texas Supreme Court and lost. He was ordered to pay all fees that McGibney had incurred during the appeal process.

There's a famous quote that I live by. "It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up, you'd better be running" – African Proverb.

Thank you so much for being part of this community. There are plenty of ways that you can become more involved. We will be sending out monthly newsletters to keep everyone informed of any new and exciting developments and/or projects.

JAMESMCGIBNEY.COM WEBSITE SOURCES: 

SOURCES: 

https://www.jamesmcgibney.com - (James McGibney Website)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McGibney  - (James McGibney Wikipedia)

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/james-mcgibney-troll-hunter  - (James McGibney Wired Magazine)

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/7/james-mcgibney-bullyville.html  - (James McGibney  Al Jazeera)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD0rSk3B_xFfE1pPyZRPPqw  - (James McGibney YouTube Channel)

https://www.bullyville.com/?page=articles&id=1121  - (James McGibney , Founder of BullyVille)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmcgibney  - (James McGibney Linkedin)

https://gawker.com/5965758%2Fhow-revenge-porn-publisher-hunter-moore-suffered-250000-worth-of-payback  - (James McGibney, Gawker)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/19/isanyoneup-is-now-permanently-down/#1caa9660450a  - (James McGibney, Forbes)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6850839B1/en - (James McGibney, Patents)

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a2/c2/6d/19cefea9462f6f/US6850839.pdf - (James McGibney, Patents)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6509867B1/en?oq=6%2c509%2c867  - (James McGibney, Patents)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/counsel-fees-sanctions-nixed-anti-073407307.html - (James McGibney, BullyVille)

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/16/cheatervilles-james-mcgibney-swaps-revenge-porn-an/  - (James McGibney, Las Vegas Sun)

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_McGibney  - (James McGibney, Wikiwand)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/james-mcgibney-founder-of-cheatervillecom-talks-outing-cheaters_n_5b4f93e0e4b01e373aabec2f  - (James McGibney, CheaterVille)

https://www.bullyville.com/  - (James McGibney, BullyVille)

http://www.cheaterville.com/ - (James McGibney, CheaterVille)

http://www.karmaville.com/ - (James McGibney, KarmaVille)

https://vimeo.com/30394769  - (James McGibney, Dr. Phil)

http://www.dmlp.org/threats/mcgibney-v-moore  - (James McGibney, Winning lawsuit)

https://softwarecontractsolutions.com/how-to-better-integrate-it-security-and-it-strategy/  - (James McGibney, Cybersecurity)

https://peoplepill.com/people/james-mcgibney/  - (James McGibney, Peoplepill)

https://www.courthousenews.com/revenge-porn-king-owes-250k-for-defamation/  - (James McGibney, Winning lawsuit)

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/potmsearch/detail/submission/6470902/James_McGibney  - (James McGibney, Cybersecurity)

https://observer.com/2013/03/bullyville-founder-wins-250000-in-defamation-case-against-revenge-porn-king-hunter-moore/  - (James McGibney wins $250,000 in defamation case against Revenge Porn Kingpin Hunter Moore)

https://www.constructormagazine.com/under-attack/  - (James McGibney, Cybersecurity)

https://www.instagram.com/bullyville/ - (BullyVille, James McGibney Instagram)

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/2ivzs9/vigilanteville_james_mcgibney_and_his_online_army/  - (Reddit, James McGibney and his online Army)

https://www.cisco.com/en/US/services/ps2961/CaseStudy_TutorPerini_August2009.pdf - (James McGibney, Cybersecurity)

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3404198/7-things-you-can-do-to-enhance-iot-security.html  - (James McGibney, Cybersecurity)

https://www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com/features/on-the-scene-with-nadine/2512-busted-how-to-track-a-cheater.pdf  - (James McGibney, CheaterVille)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2292888/Hunter-Moore-Revenge-porn-publisher-served-legal-papers-tripping-Taco-Bell-ordered-pay-250-000-calling-anti-bullying-advocate-pedophile.html  - (James McGibney, Dailymail UK)

https://military.wikia.org/wiki/James_McGibney  - (James McGibney, United States Marine Corps)

https://data.scotxblog.com/scotx/no/18-0495  - (James McGibney wins Texas Supreme Court Case)

https://uk.pcmag.com/internet-3/16858/revenge-porn-king-hunter-moore-ordered-to-pay-250k-for-defamation  - (James McGibney wins $250,000 court case)

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-154-ford-founders-axing-the-honour-roll-inside-the-pmo-and-more-1.2906183/should-bullies-be-bullied-back-1.2906192  - (James McGibney CBC Radio)

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130311/03242722279/revenge-porn-magnate-gets-hit-with-250000-defamation-claim.shtml#comments  - (James McGibney, TechDirt)

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/revenge-porn-site-shut-down-anti-bullying-site-726532  - (James McGibney, NBC News)

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/CultureSpyBlog/archives/2012/09/25/isanyoneup-now-accused-of-extortion  - (James McGibney)

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/3787055  - (Texas Citizens Participation Act – Appellants Bullyville And James McGibney Win Reversal Of Largest Anti-SLAPP Sanction In United States History)

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2018/04/25/counsel-fees-sanctions-nixed-in-anti-slapp-action-against-website-operator/ - (James McGibney, Counsel Fees, Sanctions Nixed in Anti-SLAPP Action Against Website Operator.)

https://www.law.com/litigationdaily/2018/04/24/daily-dicta-when-a-slapp-feels-more-like-a-sucker-punch/ - James McGibney, (Daily Dicta: When a SLAPP Feels More like a Sucker Punch.)

https://www.law360.com/articles/1035898/texas-court-axes-online-harassment-case-300k-fee-award  - James McGibney (Texas Court Axes Online Harassment Case $300K Fee Award.)

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3516415/hybrid-cloud-management-requires-new-tools-skills.html - James McGibney, Cybersecurity

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sdut-lawsuit-revenge-porn-bollaert-child-2013dec11-htmlstory.html  - James McGibney, Revenge pornography website operator ordered to pay James McGibney $330,000.00. McGibney earmarks funds to go to revenge pornography victims.

https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=5093916  - James McGibney deploys first Cisco UCS technology - Cybersecurity 

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17784229  - James McGibney - BullyVille takes over and immediately shuts down notorious revenge pornography website.

https://soundcloud.com/user-131732263/howard-stern-discusses-cheaterville-im-going-to-search-for-beth-on-here  - James McGibney - Howard Stern discusses CheaterVille.

https://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/Review-the-pros-and-cons-of-8-common-hybrid-cloud-use-cases  - James McGibney - Cybersecurity, Rosendin Electric

https://www.leagle.com/decision/intxco20180420612  - McGibney v. Rauhauser

https://www.mommyish.com/stop-cyber-bullying/  - James McGibney , BullyVille

https://www.click2houston.com/news/2011/11/02/guilty-or-not-here-comes-cheaterville/  - James McGibney, CheaterVille.

https://mediamikes.com/2012/11/james-mcgibney-talks-about-cheaterville-com-bullyville-com/ - James McGibney discusses CheaterVille and BullyVille

https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/hunter-moore-revenge-porn-defamation-lawsuit/ - James McGibney, BullyVille

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/cheaterville-founder-says-repeat-cheaters-are-selfish-and-ashleymadison-is-moronic-6507933 - James McGibney, CheaterVille.

https://nationalpost.com/news/isanyoneup-com-revenge-porn-website-shuts-down-after-selling-to-anti-bullying-group - James McGibney, Bullyville

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/founder-of-the-villes-launching-vocalville-radio-program-on-cbs-1005-fm-in-las-vegas-157022415.html - James McGibney, Founder Of "The Villes" Launching VocalVille Radio Program On CBS 100.5 FM In Las Vegas

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bully-waging-war-against-bullies - James McGibney, BullyVille

https://www.thelevityball.com/welcome-to-james-mcgibneyville-show-some-respect-or-else/ - James McGibney, BullyVille and CheaterVille interview.

 https://www.prlog.org/12710034-texas-citizens-participation-act-appellants-bullyville-and-james-mcgibney-win-reversal-of-largest-anti-slapp-sanction-in-united-states-history.html - James McGibney, BullyVille.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25872322  - James McGibney, BullyVille.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/fbi-investigates-revenge-porn-website-founder/story?id=16405425 - James McGibney, BullyVille.

 https://hacked.com/the-worst-cases-of-revenge-porn/  - James McGibney, BullyVille.