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| Thread ID: 63080 | 2005-10-28 21:07:00 | Pay The Piper Time! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 400085 | 2005-10-28 21:07:00 | Just for laughs here, I c/p'd this for youse guys: Stephen Michael Cohen , who has already served several US prison stints for bank fraud and forgery, has traded a Mexican mansion for a room in the old graybar hotel . Cohen, who fled the country back in 2001 after being convicted of hijacking the Internet address sex . com, was arrested by Mexican authorities in Tijuana ( . latimes . com/news/nationworld/world/la-fi-sex28oct28,0,4207242 . story?coll=la-story-footer&track=morenews" target="_blank">www . latimes . com) His apprehension may finally bring an end to one of the seamier disputes in Internet legal history . A bit of background: ( . wired . com/news/print/0,1294,19140,00 . html" target="_blank">www . wired . com) In 1994 entrepreneur Gary Kremen ( . wired . com/wired/archive/3 . 09/scans . html?pg=7" target="_blank">www . wired . com) registered the sex . com domain with Network Solutions (NSI) . He did nothing with the domain, sitting on what would soon become one of the most lucrative pieces of real estate in the early Web landscape . Then, in October of 1995, Cohen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . just off a 47 month prison sentence for grand theft and check kiting . . . . . . . . . . . . ginned up a phony memo from Kremen's company instructing NSI to transfer ownership of sex . com to Cohen . NSI did just that and Cohen quickly developed the domain into a garish, and extraordinarily profitable, porn site . When Kremen discovered what had happened, he sued Cohen . . . . . . . . . . who brazenly fought back with a ferocity that tied the matter up in court for years . Kremen won the domain back in 2000 and was awarded a $65 million court judgment against Cohen in 2001 . Cohen fled the country, taking up residence in a Tijuana mansion . Occasionally, when the mood struck him, he would call up Kremen and harass him . And that was where the story sat until Cohen's apprehension Thursday . Now there's a new episode to be written, this one closer to "Prison Break" than "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous . " C/P from Silicon Valley News, 10-28-05 . Good Morning Silicon Valley is written and edited with the able assistance of John Murrell . |
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| 400086 | 2005-10-29 06:50:00 | Should mention,the plural of you is you. | Cicero (40) | ||
| 400087 | 2005-10-29 09:20:00 | *cough* grammer nazi *cough* | Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 400088 | 2005-10-29 09:35:00 | I should mention,thats grammar. ;) | Cicero (40) | ||
| 400089 | 2005-10-29 09:35:00 | I'm quite given to addressing people as "youse ones" in moments of levity. Well done Joe. ;) | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 400090 | 2005-10-29 15:08:00 | Hey! No problem for all youse guys dere in Upsidedown-Land! | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 400091 | 2005-10-29 19:20:00 | I should mention,thats grammar. ;) You know, I wondered that my self :D |
Sam I Am (1679) | ||
| 400092 | 2005-10-29 23:20:00 | Well done indeed Joe,you may as well murder the rest of the English language :) | Cicero (40) | ||
| 400093 | 2005-10-29 23:25:00 | I should mention,thats grammar. ;) Only two errors in that sentence. :D HeHe |
mark c (247) | ||
| 400094 | 2005-10-30 01:54:00 | Only two errors in that sentence. :D HeHe I have no problem be corrected,so please do. ;) We can't all be 001's. ;) |
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