I took the liberty and rewrote the text: The Bitcoin Foundation has not been too fond of pedophiles. Maybe with this new board member, they would become more accepting of this and other pedophiles. So if you are a Bitcoin Foundation member, I urge you to go vote for this pedophile in the run-off erection, so that he can get the 52 votes needed to be erected to the vacated seat, formerly by Mark Karpeles of Mt Gox, ironically of which he'll oversee. Now that I've penned it in perspective, how could I have been so blind? We cried like babies when the press got it wrong about Bitcoin, but now we hand them the headlines: Pedo- Brock Pierce Bags Vacant The Bitcoin Foundation Seat (film at 11, 12, 1, ... See the show!) Performing for your joy we've a sight not for the coy A man and seven boys keep it cool, keep it cool We would like it to be known the exhibits that were shown Were exclusively Bitcoin's own, all our own, all our own Come and see the show, come and see the show Come and see the show See the show For those not up to speed: http://web.archive.org/web/20060208124607/http://www.fuckedcompany.com/den/ |
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I still do not see any 1000 BItcoin transactions. I can't understand why you can not show it to us. Ah well, Good luck with your claim  What the fuck am I missing here? I, too, don't see the 1,000 BTC or the 132 BTC transactions because InstaWallet didn't include the bitcon wallet IDs of either one of them when they came back online. That's what I've been complaining about from day one but was put on ignore. We were all instructed to file the information we had, and that included missing wallet IDs, of which I did for all three claims at the earliest possible time. davout claimed that he couldn't locate any of the claims, of which I say is impossible unless all the data was expunged. Remember, I had grave concerns prior to the "hack" that was not caused by me ONLY having $83 USD (valued at the time) on account when I expressed said concerns to davount mid-March of last year, prior to him deciding to take a holiday during the time frame when the "hack" occurred. My fears were put to rest with some mumble-jumble that satisfied me after another Bitcoiner concurred all was well, so I went back to the BFL thread(s) to bring awareness of my latest findings so that fellow bitcoiners don't get taken while my bitcoins, assumed safe, were in the process of being confiscated, now residing in one of davout's bitcoin wallets. Certainly you must remember the wallet address from which you sent the 1000+ BTC. The last time I visited the InstaWallet URL acting as the wallet depicting the wallet address was March 26/27/28. What I saw was the wallet address with a 0 balance with the same at blockchain.info because davout said that that's how InstaWallet works, thus had no concern since I was already rest assured such was done for security reasons or whatever. I did not copy & paste the last wallet address but done so with the previous addresses prior to moving them. The files were on my old Toshiba laptop of which I no longer have, tossing it, moreover, burning it with a pile of leaves/brush/limbs behind the house. First, the monitor went out on it, of which I connected an old monitor to it to retrieve the URLs, some images I needed at the time, Mt Gox dump file, of all things, onto a thumb drive (first time I've even used such, purchased from Walmart for said occasion). The next time I turned on the laptop, the fan wasn't working (I believe) and it got hot and shut itself down. No matter what I tried, I couldn't revive it. The only major lost were pics and videos of my dad when we took our yearly fishing trips to Iron River, WI. It was seven years old with Vista OS. My hope was that davout of IW would use my IP to somehow... What the fuck am I thinking! |
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Nope; haven't seen it but I will take a look and would that not be a good idea? Did you enjoy? Sort of but maybe I didn't really appreciate it; what do you think? Are you not aware of the latest pertaining to Mount Coxs or are you b%#*@ in one...? |
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Fat Tay Choon went to the Mining Academy in Brazil, east of Satoshi's yurt, where Gavin was kidnapped by the CIA's goons and forced to pretend fucking an anonymous decentralized biscuit—better than all the fish in the Pacific Ocean—but also to defray leeches intelligently with ECDSA fighting qubits for 16.8 dree12, or Phinnaeus must fling toilets towards psy‐ops, without potato smoothies mixed with fried chicken wings from BitMunchies.com, urbanchickennj.com, and Popeye's Bitcoin wallet, which deleted Satoshi's premine ability to cheer very victoriously, none like Butterfly Labs better enabled, but also Pirate crashing AIR applications without the express use of interest-free scams, conspiring with fraudulent sockpuppets and PPTs and..., you troll-herding piece of Shiitake mushroom, go lick Goat's horns until Theymos admits to having a quite erotic fetish involving honey badgers wearing thongs composed of soggy burlap waffles dangling from cosmic linoleum-based iphones running quantum chips explodes spewing deadly acid! b!z screamed out "Light is bright like...like... stars." When Markjamrobin opens the isolated window, he sees three pigs together in bed. Kouye and myself laugh when chinese food falls the impact kills Obama Bin ladin whoever thinks he may be terrorist, is correct but hates the bitcoin logo. Earth has snakes. Currently, the other species have decimated to tiny groups called "marko solo" whatever time it all comes and ends? However, Bitcoin's acidity level dipped causing catastrophic double-spends!
Meanwhile, AntiOps was confused by the awkward change to his penis melting uncontrollably. Vanilla Ice perfume spritzed onto cheese and greasy slime covered with babies boiled in a smelly old heatsink. But it tasted like shit therefore it poisoned his blood although he did survive. Reproductive organisms attacked the internal testicle which caused terrible congestion somehow. Evolution then terminated the smelly old business thank the inability of AntiOps to lock Satoshi's thread. In a transactional forum there was a debate about hacking unprotected accounts, however the debate shortly ended.
Phinnaeus Gage, king pluto, duke of the people. Returned one of his loans that he fraudulently claimed without declaring intentionally. Although this was bullshit. Earth was hit by a meteor which cause catastrophic events which cause people to cause mass destruction by proxy voting it was documented recently on the news that oranges are disguised anti-gravity pockets which have giant bears attacked Zeus because bitcoin accidentally crashed to Mars which created spaceships and aliens who pretended being humans wearing hats on their toes.
Altcoin suck on apples and oranges too. Megacoin is the most shit sucker of apples and melons ever. Most people love to troll others. Evolution is a slow process which created forks. It is beneficial to wash your feet because it distributes bacteria and oil, notwithstanding the beneficial attributes which are how chocolate arouses some of the miners brains. Today was an abysmal event which caused many abnormal but not smart bitcoiners because many of them are cute animals who were insane because of excessive oreo consumption. One watermelon is not love how people try me explotation Maybe Heisenberg Breaking bad control guy director or masturbation my time vampire drinks urine not lemon tek and water supernatural.
LEALANA is fat looking because pizza is sour with pickles which are sexy and never rot. So many people eat pizza it's unbelievable. The news said that pizza is bought mainly with anchovies which results in big wet weather which had massive gusts of wind with pouring milk down on everyones throat because it feels great! Although honey is very sweet taste it makes when it is served hot it melts softly but slowly.
The universe is populated with many planets which were destroyed by pirateat40. Cyborgs then warped to the zoo and ate mushroom with a aerospace technician. Bitcoin has used a lot resources from peoples although people smell like melons.
Ipods suck. Androids rule. Altcoins also suck peanuts. Bitcoin is the greatest idea that has ever been created by man although litecoin sucks? Once upon a time Gandalf went to wal-mart to dry her hair. Minecraft is the best game in universe because chickens cluck. 231134421 is one crazy big ass monkey. What is with people posting replies still. Terraria is a crazy game which requires extreme concentration. This can result in health cubes; Parentheses are a pain in the brain. This noodle is disgusting. Although spaceships cry waterfalls they are magical little elves. Golden towns is very annoying and smell like bacon. Celebrities are awesome and smart. But, evolution taught us that butterflys are ugly.
Vitamin D is important to scam Taras and raise taxes which would cause the world to go crazy but not insane. Obama is the president now. Alot of gamers will illustrate sony that nintendo is leading the infiltration of Iran. Microsoft Windows was salivating pedophiles of the coastal farts. Yet the banana shrank. What was doge poo doing under the bridge with bridge cleaner? He was just he's aren't because something something different like seems incorrect, because we fucked. Yet prunes prunes are very bad lad's yet unknown to fuckers SWEARING. Banana monkey is not virgin-horse. Corn.
This disappoints satan more than satoshi because he ate hydrochloric pools and he fucked whores who are sick shemales shemales shemales BANGCOCK! God smited non-believers with dicks on a stick. They shat together sitting upside-down flicking birdies. Baezl'bub slept with Hitler inside a bomb ticking furiously and hodling. That was awesome. Bitmit made belt so that walruses can shit on his dick and eat mushroom full of wonderful shit, he HODL'd BTCs and Dogecoin with a succubus sperm from first blowjob stories.
Nefarious words spoken shit at bitcointalk and destroyed uranus with a big-ass Spaceship mouth that eats goats flying shuttle that revolves expressly and quietly to hell. Gamma flux destroyed Litecoin with a barracks producing Atreides shit and Kadafi. Same Binladen puppet goxed clients sucking lollipops shaped like mixed frapuccino lids. Goku start this fight prematurely
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wow no wonder why they did a southpark episode of this
http://web.archive.org/web/20060208124607/http://www.fuckedcompany.com/den/The video I linked was not a South Park episode, but an Indie Production inspired by what was in the press at the time and has recently emerged. http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/04/25/67329.htmFilmmaker Bryan Singer denied claims that he was part of a "sordid sex ring" that sexually abused teenage male actors and models in the 1990s.
Michael Egan sued Singer in Hawaii Federal Court on April 16, alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress, battery, assault, and invasion of privacy by unreasonable intrusion.
The lawsuit claims that Singer had forced the then-17-year-old actor to take cocaine, and anally raped him multiple times between 1998 and 1999.
Egan also sued Hollywood executives David Neuman, Gary Goddard, and Garth Ancier in separate filings at the same court.
All defendants have issued statements denying the allegations.
On Thursday, Singer announced that he would forgo publicity events for his upcoming movie "X-Men: Days of Future Past." The filmmaker said Egan's allegations are "outrageous, vicious and completely false" and called the lawsuit a "sick twisted shakedown."
"I do not want these fictitious claims to divert any attention from 'X-Men: Days of Future Past,'" Singer said in a statement. "This fantastic film is a labor of love and one of the greatest experiences of my career. So, out of respect to all of the extraordinary contributions from the incredibly talented actors and crew involved, I've decided not to participate in the upcoming media events for the film. However, I promise when this situation is over, the facts will show this to be the sick twisted shakedown it is. I want to thank fans, friends and family for all their amazing and overwhelming support."
Egan claims in his lawsuit that in the late 1990s he was employed by the now-defunct Internet startup Digital Entertainment Network to attend "sordid parties" at an Encino mansion, owned by the company's founder Marc Collins-Rector.
Egan claims Singer anally raped him several times at the mansion and again when Egan visited another estate in Hawaii.
Singer "manipulated his power, wealth, and position in the entertainment industry to sexually abuse and exploit the underage plaintiff through the use of drugs, alcohol, threats, and inducements which resulted in plaintiff suffering catastrophic psychological and emotional injuries," the 12-page complaint states. "Defendant Singer did so as part of a group of adult males similarly positioned in the entertainment industry that maintained and exploited boys in a sordid sex ring. A Hollywood mogul must not use his position to sexually exploit underage actors."
Egan claims that when he was 17 he stayed at another estate in Hawaii where Singer promised him a role in an X-Men movie. In one incident, Singer shoved a "handful of cocaine onto plaintiff's face" and anally raped him, the graphic federal court filing states.
Though Collins-Rector is not a party to the lawsuits, he is accused of threatening Egan at gunpoint at the Encino mansion and sexually abusing him.
Egan reportedly was a plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Collins-Rector in 2000.
In 2001, Los Angeles Times reported a $4.5-million default judgment against Digital Entertainment Network, by that time bankrupt, and Collins-Rector and two other principals, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce, after they failed to respond to employees' claims of rape, assault and death threats.
Collins-Rector was also the subject of a sex molestation lawsuit filed by a teen in New Jersey who settled the lawsuit, the Times reported in the same article.
Collins-Rector pleaded guilty in 2004 to charges of transporting five underage boys across state lines to commit illegal sex acts, according to a Thursday article in the Times.
Egan wants at least $75,000 in damages for each count against Singer, who came to prominence after the release of the crime thriller "The Usual Suspects" in 1995 and is known for his work on Marvel's "X-Men" franchise.
Egan is represented by Mark Gallagher of Hawaii and Jeff Herman of Boca Raton.
"I've heard from dozens and dozens alleging they were abused in Hollywood as minors," Herman told the Times. "We're investigating those cases. I expect I'll be filing many more (lawsuits). I intend to expose every Hollywood pedophile and predator I can identify." |
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I have been lobbying for McDonalds to change their golden arches to a Z for years.
For some reason they do not want to do that.
Why wouldn't McDonalds want a cool Z logo?
 "Is that a McZ?" |
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The Wall Street Journal doesn't mess around.
We have been alerted to accept our new generation of leaders, because they have arrived with a bold plan to assume control.
Does the bold plan include alt coins as well? Wait till you discover who the registrar for https://dgex.com/ is: Domain Name: dgex.com
Registry Domain ID: 99321791_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.srsplus.com
Registrar URL: http://www.srsplus.com
Updated Date: 2013-12-22T00:00:00-0500
Creation Date: 2003-06-18T02:55:44-0400
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2014-06-18T00:00:00-0400
Registrar: TLDS, LLC DBA SRSPLUS
Registrar IANA ID: 320
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8773812449
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Graviton Capital Inc. Tech Administrator
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 34-20 Calle 34
Registrant City: Panama City
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 5
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.2066664011 DGEX will support multiple cryptocurrencies in the future. The software of DGEX was produced by the owner and has been in use for numerous private share trading platforms since 2000. It was deployed for BTC / NXT trading in November 2013. Connecting the dots, srsplus.com and silkroad.com are one and the same. http://www.ibtimes.com/mt-gox-may-rise-again-if-wall-street-veterans-burned-bitcoin-traders-get-their-way-1574092Sunlot boasts a broad and experienced range of investors, including online businessmen Brock Pierce and Jonathan Yantis, and venture capitalists William Quigley and Matthew Roszak, from Clearstone Venture Partners and Silk Road Equity, respectively. http://www.silkroadequity.com/contact.html20 West Kinzie Street, Suite 1420
Chicago, Illinois 60654
USA http://www.whois.com/whois/silkroad.comDomain Name: silkroad.com
Registry Domain ID: 604884_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.srsplus.com
Registrar URL: http://www.srsplus.com
Updated Date: 1993-04-20T00:00:00-0400
Creation Date: 1993-04-20T00:00:00-0400
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-04-21T00:00:00-0400
Registrar: TLDS, LLC DBA SRSPLUS
Registrar IANA ID: 320
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: email@web.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8773812449
Reseller:
Domain Status:
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: DNS Admin
Registrant Organization: SilkRoad Technology, Inc.
Registrant Street: 20 West Kinzie Street Suite 1220
Registrant City: Chicago
Registrant State/Province: IL
Registrant Postal Code: 60654
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.8663293363 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/to-secure-your-bitcoins-print-them-out-2014-02-26Feb. 26, 2014, 11:10 a.m. ESTBut even the biggest bitcoin fans recommend a real wallet or physical safe. “Printing off the private key from your bitcoin, putting it into a paper form and sticking it in your hip pocket or house wall safe is one way to make sure it’s safe,” says Andrew “Flip” Filipowski, chairman and CEO of SilkRoad Equity, a cloud-based human capital management software company. “Keep your bitcoin offline,” Daley adds. He too suggests keeping the bitcoin private key—a secret number that allows bitcoins to be spent—on a thumb drive and advises against keeping a copy online: “If a site is hacked and your bitcoin is stolen, the chance of recovery is effectively nil.”
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Filipowski says picking a digital wallet is like picking a bank. “You could find a wallet that you have more confidence in,” he says. Several companies this week issued a joint statement on Mt. Gox: “As with any new industry, there are certain bad actors that need to be weeded out, and that is what we are seeing today.” The signees included Fred Ehrsam and Brian Armstrong, founders of Coinbase, a digital wallet and exchange; Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle Internet Financial, a bitcoin-focused technology startup; and Nicolas Cary, CEO of Blockchain, a digital exchange and wallet. http://web.archive.org/web/20051124170914/http://www.silkroadequity.com/investment__portfolio/index.htmtruesnetry.com is now http://www.truelook.com/, ergo http://web.archive.org/web/20051201030550/http://www.truesentry.com/? BTW, Google shares the same address: http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/Google Chicago
20 West Kinzie St.
Chicago, IL 60654
Phone: +1 312-840-4100
Fax: +1 312-840-4101 http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/01/business/private-sector-a-maverick-has-plans-for-chicago.htmlANDREW J. FILIPOWSKI, the maverick software entrepreneur who sold Platinum Technology International to Computer Associates last month for $3.5 billion, was reclining in his limousine on Tuesday, listening to his voice mail and shooting off responses -- ''Barbara, can you check on this right away?'' -- on his way downtown. Between calls, Mr. Filipowski told a reporter that his next challenge was to turn Chicago into a ''center for cyberspace,'' which is why he was on his way to meet Mayor Richard M. Daley. On Wednesday, it was Gov. George Ryan. I'm sure "Flip" has Google's ear. Now, about that Polish Bitcoin Exchange, Bitomat, that accidently erased all its clients data, but Mt Gox was kind enough to make whole... |
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...Yantis would sell currency that had been exploited or duped.
Exploiting or duping is a process whereby an outsider hacks the game program into creating currency for the individual or duplicating an item and then selling it over and over which also results the creation of currency. These actions allow for the exploiter/duper to create an endless supply of currency without any real cost to that currenct. This is something Yantis has done in the past and made large profits from. The exploiter/duper would typically receive a commission for any currency sold of about 40% of the sales price. Due to the currency being exploited, Yantis was and would be able to sell currency at a price significantly below market, since the cost of the currency sold was non existent. This also allowed for an infinite supply to be created in what could take as little time as a few minutes.
Yantis indicated that this was also how he could turn the trading arm of IGE around and make it profitable, almost instantly. Pierce was aware of Yantis’ intent to use these exploits. In fact, Pierce counted on them as part of the rationale behind why Yantis should be brought back to work for IGE.
A clearer explanation of the toxic effects of RMT on online gaming has yet to be written. (I know. I tried.)
I’m sure that as this hits the commentariat there will be more to be said. Oh, there will be more.
Pass it on. Hey what a small world! That scammer who (allegedly) cheated the games has the same username as the guy who popped in to claim Brock Rectum Pierce is a good "innocent" guy. What are the odds that a person from the Bitcoin Foundation would just happen to have the same online name? It's the same guy, of which he confirmed such last year, thus is not in dispute. Like I said, him and Brock both became lifetime members of The Bitcoin Foundation at the same time, him first, then Brock, for the list was generated via joining date and not alphabetically. Ironically, one embraces KnC while the other kicks them to the curb, meanwhile both are part of Sunlot destined to take over Mount Coxs. |
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Dude, didn't you get the memo?
Brock Pierce intends to fully penetrate our markets.
And using markers to accomplish such to boot. |
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I still do not see any 1000 BItcoin transactions. I can't understand why you can not show it to us. Ah well, Good luck with your claim What the fuck am I missing here? I, too, don't see the 1,000 BTC or the 132 BTC transactions because InstaWallet didn't include the bitcon wallet IDs of either one of them when they came back online. That's what I've been complaining about from day one but was put on ignore. We were all instructed to file the information we had, and that included missing wallet IDs, of which I did for all three claims at the earliest possible time. davout claimed that he couldn't locate any of the claims, of which I say is impossible unless all the data was expunged. Remember, I had grave concerns prior to the "hack" that was not caused by me ONLY having $83 USD (valued at the time) on account when I expressed said concerns to davount mid-March of last year, prior to him deciding to take a holiday during the time frame when the "hack" occurred. My fears were put to rest with some mumble-jumble that satisfied me after another Bitcoiner concurred all was well, so I went back to the BFL thread(s) to bring awareness of my latest findings so that fellow bitcoiners don't get taken while my bitcoins, assumed safe, were in the process of being confiscated, now residing in one of davout's bitcoin wallets. |
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http://archive.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-12/ff_ige?currentPage=allI was in the business myself at the time, selling items in the classic MMO Ultima Online. After the conference, I blogged "Brock Pierce looks like a Norman Rockwell 13-year-old, talks like a coked-up 35-year-old, and happens to have turned 23 last Friday. He is either my new best friend or my new worst nightmare." What alarmed me was the news that IGE was planning to move beyond EverQuest to other games—including Ultima. "I haven't even had a chance to get my little five-and-dime up and running," I lamented, "and already the Wal-Mart is coming to town."
But I was kidding myself if I thought I was even on IGE's radar. All its efforts were aimed at crushing Yantis. "It was a market-share game," Pierce says. If Yantis lowered his prices, IGE did, too. If Yantis sought to exploit his more-established reputation, IGE sought to bury him in Google AdWords. ("We were probably one of Google's largest advertisers," Pierce says, adding that they spent about $1 million a month on text ads touting their affordable EverQuest platinum.)
Yantis' great misstep, Pierce says, was not thinking big enough. "Jonathan believed that this would only be a market in EverQuest. We had successfully diversified; in Final Fantasy XI, we had a nice profit margin. We were able to bring our margins down in EverQuest. We said to him, 'We are going to bring this market to ruins unless you come join us.'"
IGE was still the underdog, but in the end it was Yantis who blinked. The press release went out on January 22, 2004: IGE and Yantis' MySuperSales site were merging. Yantis got payments totalling $2.4 million and a 37 percent stake in the new company, and he joined the team as chief operating officer. "After that, the money started to flow," Pierce says. "Very well." Yantis and Pierce via Sunlot are now trying to secure Mt Gox, but this time it's to make Gox's customers whole again, putting profit aside.  "Rightttttttt!!!"
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...or have they opted to not do their due diligence when they included Brock Pierce on the list?
They already lost two members due to scandals, one of which I love, while the other is French. Now, they're buckin' for adding another to their venerable org covered with taint (double-entendre intended).
While they are at it, how about inviting Bruce Wagner back and moving their HQ to Pattaya?   Our movement is open to everyone? I wasn't aware until now that Bill Clinton's dick resembled a microphone. That explains a few things.    "I approve this post!" |
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...or have they opted to not do their due diligence when they included Brock Pierce on the list?
They already lost two members due to scandals, one of which I love, while the other is French. Now, they're buckin' for adding another to their venerable org covered with taint (double-entendre intended).
While they are at it, how about inviting Bruce Wagner back and moving their HQ to Pattaya? This Pattaya place you mentioned sounds like a great place to hold a Bitcoin conference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39476Meanwhile, on the Bruno's-just-spreading-fud front: http://www.thegrouchygamer.com/?p=94Scott Jennings is a blogger. His blog, Broken Toys, is one that I have read as long as I have been reading blogs. He recently posted an article about the legal battle going on between Alan Debonneville and Brock Pierce, a couple of the principles at IGE. Here’s where the irony part kicks in.
Pierce, who made a fortune thumbing his nose at legalese and violating the EULAs of pretty much every MMO company out there, has sicced his lawyers on Jennings and have demanded that he remove his article. He’s going to comply today. I wanted to bring these bullying tactics to your attention, so you have some perspective of the kind of people that are running these operations. Keep in mind when you read this, IGE has always been considered one of the CLEANER operations out there.
Thanks to Ryan Shwayder over at Nerfbat for bringing this to my attention this morning. Here’s to piling on. I’ll let you know if I am subjected to the same kind of bullying as Jennings was. Here is a mirror of Jenning’s post. Note: Many of these links are broken, probably because of the lawyers demanding they are taken down… Here is Scott’s original post;
“MMOcitizen.com, a website operated by the law firm currently bringing a class action lawsuit against IGE, obtained and published a copy of a complaint in another lawsuit involving IGE: this one brought against former CEO Brock Pierce last year by co-founder Alan Debonneville.
For almost 5 years, Debonneville has dedicated his entire life to the creation, development, and success of IGE US, LLC (”IGE”). IGE’s meteoric rise from an under funded startup to the market leader culminated in a Goldman-Sachs investment of $60,000,000, which set the value of IGE at the time of $220,000,000. While Pierce, a flamboyant former child actor, has always been the public face of IGE, Debonneville has been the tireless working founder, responsible for the expansion and operation of the company.
The filing goes into great detail about IGE’s rise and fall from Debonneville’s point of view, with, just in case you weren’t already glued to your PDF files, added dirt from the dot-com-money-and-man-boy-love days of DEN.
After living and working in Spain for a few months, Debonneville observed that Rector and Pierce had a very close relationship, one that did not seem normal between a 40-year old man and a 20-year old young man…
…Apparently, there were a multitude of charges related to the prior operation of a company specifying that Pierce, Rector, and Shackley had stolen money from the company and wasted corporate assets for things like the purchase of illicit drugs, living a lavish lifestyle, and criminal allegations of transporting a minor across state lines for sexual purposes. Upon learning this information, Debonneville questioned Pierce regarding the allegations, and Pierce stated that the claims were false and contrived as a setup by some competitors and former employees…
Wild enough? It gets… something. Worse? Better? Uwe Boll?
Debonneville was told by Pierce that the “Spanish FBI” came to their house with a “SWAT” team in helicopters, kicked in their door, shot their dog, and threw all of them in jail.
The complaint eventually leaves the Mallorca Vice portion of history and gives a breezy history of much of what we knew already – IGE’s quick rise and huge cash infusions, and the use of that in a quest to purchase respectability through hiring executives and purchasing websites. Eventually, it all falls apart around the time of the Goldman Sachs investment as the principals began to fall out over arguing over how to divide up the huge amount of stock, which is dealt in the document (from Debonneville’s viewpoint, of course) in point-by-point detail.
Debonneville was starting to discover that Pierce had not only lied to Debonneville about the Yantis Stock Repurchase, but also that Pierce had benefited personally to the detriment of Debonneville from the Salyer and Maslow sale of stock. Of course, Debonneville was shocked to learn that Pierce had sold any of Pierce’s stock in IGE…
…On July 14, 2006, in an apparent attempt to convince Debonneville that his interest in IGE was becoming worth less and less money, Debonneville was sent an article regarding a crackdown on the sale and purchase of game items for cash in Korea. The implication was that IGE’s recent acquisition of Itemmania, a Korean online house, was going to be a failure. In hindsight, it appears that this was just another one of Pierce’s attempts to manipulate Debonneville into selling his stock to Pierce for a less than fair value, certainly for less than Pierce realized on the sale to Maverick. Today, it is likely that this may in fact be IGE’s most valuable remaining asset…
And just in case you started nodding off with tales of stock screwballery… enter everyone’s friend in space, Jonathan Yantis.
Yantis also advised Debonneville that if a deal was not reached with IGE, Yantis had already put a network in place to compete with and destroy IGE. Yantis stated that through the hiring of certain individuals who he had a long time business relationship with, Yantis would sell currency that had been exploited or duped.
Exploiting or duping is a process whereby an outsider hacks the game program into creating currency for the individual or duplicating an item and then selling it over and over which also results the creation of currency. These actions allow for the exploiter/duper to create an endless supply of currency without any real cost to that currenct. This is something Yantis has done in the past and made large profits from. The exploiter/duper would typically receive a commission for any currency sold of about 40% of the sales price. Due to the currency being exploited, Yantis was and would be able to sell currency at a price significantly below market, since the cost of the currency sold was non existent. This also allowed for an infinite supply to be created in what could take as little time as a few minutes.
Yantis indicated that this was also how he could turn the trading arm of IGE around and make it profitable, almost instantly. Pierce was aware of Yantis’ intent to use these exploits. In fact, Pierce counted on them as part of the rationale behind why Yantis should be brought back to work for IGE.
A clearer explanation of the toxic effects of RMT on online gaming has yet to be written. (I know. I tried.)
I’m sure that as this hits the commentariat there will be more to be said. Oh, there will be more.
Pass it on. Quick aside: Each time I see the phrase "Pass it On" I'm reminded of my dear friend who's no longer with us: http://www.nashvillemusicguide.com/writers-night-legend-steve-bivins-battles-cancer/http://brokentoys.org/?p=1780YANTIS ON THIS WEEK’S “I, CRINGELY”
A surprisingly informed, evenhanded look at virtual arbitrage from the PBS columnist. <--THIS IS A LINK!
The specific event that led to this column was the failed sale of $2,300 in platinum by a group of EverQuest fanatics who wanted to use the money to pay their way to a big EverQuest convention. It is their contention (not mine, I’m just the reporter here, remember) that the bad guy in this deal is either Jonathan Yantis or an associate of his. Jonathan Yantis runs Yantis Enterprises, which was until recently the big competitor to IGE for the buying and selling of this stuff that isn’t real. Yantis is in San Diego, IGE is in Florida, and earlier this year they merged with IGE buying Yantis, though the web sites (they are both in this week’s links) remain separate.
The players who came to me sold their platinum through a game-specific auction site. The deal went forward exactly as described above, and they suddenly had no platinum and no money. Wily hackers that they are, they tracked the mail records of the only trail that did exist, the e-mails arranging the exchange, and claim to have found that the buyer’s IP address was from the same range used by Yantis Enterprises. Further, they explored the qualifications of the “PayPal Verified” buyer and claim that most of the positive feedback came from Jonathan Yantis. Finally, they claim that the day after the transaction, the Yantis price to sell platinum on their EverQuest server suddenly dropped as though there was suddenly a larger supply acquired at little or no cost.
These players are fervent and angry and they have some real data so what happens now? Not much, and that is probably the real topic of this column. |
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I believe the point that I was suggesting in my earlier post is that Brock seems to be very articulate and knowledgeable about bitcoin with a lot of experiences that seem genuine and that he also seems to be concerned about the prosperity and building of the bitcoin eco-system....
Brock also has many years of acting experience and a very questionable past. I agree he currently puts on a good show. Somehow I sense this movement is being turned into "controlled opposition". A lot of work was put into the video I linked, and I'm sure that those behind it didn't do it because they felt like trolling. They were echoing the sentiment based on facts as they became available to the ever going audience at the time. |
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