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Originally posted by Chichio@Jan 27 2005, 11:13 AM One million bizillion dollars! Informed sources tell me this FCI stuff is BS. FYI
So let me get this straight.....
We are to believe an anon poster who is hiding his/her identity
and a company that has beeen proven to be at least umm shal we say unable to do what they claim they will do without a hidden tax of some sort being applied
over proven industry professionals, that have ( in meatss case) went out of there way to help newbies in the industry?
and in Nicks case an expert on traffic ???
the prudent thing for you to do is look for a new job before you get pinched as a co conspirator...
going down with the ship is not as admirable as one would lead you to believe...
so the same question is posed to you now Mr. anon you sling accusations here and imply inuendo lets here it from the horses mouth why does your " source" not come and make a formal statement?
I think it's past time for Street Racer to pony up with his resume -- assuming he wants to be even remotely credible. Otherwise I consider him to be another anon with a worthless opinion and a big mouth.
Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Jan 27 2005, 11:54 AM
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I coupled that info with the fact that I've read something similar on this board before that ended up not being true
LOL
Really?
What thing did you read here that wasn't true?
I don't recall exactly but as I remember quite a few people on this board have a bone to pick with FCI, and I have no issue with that. I remember reading something before about it being the end for FCI, yet they continue to live. I believe it was something similar i.e. servers taken, office raided. I don't really remember. I'm not a regular here obviously.
As a former STracker/FCI employee I can vouch for the integrity of both TaDOW and Chichio. I know none us are here to stir the pot or get anyone riled up.
I am just as interested in any information that involved the people I know and have worked with as they are.
It is easy to post a thread or add comments that may be taken out of context or are intended to be sarcastic or ask a question...that may be misunderstood. This situation is not new, so any new information is always questioned.
I am sure all parties will be glad when it's over. Ok, some parties will be glad when it's over.
Know this for sure... I would never knowingly speak ill of SexTracker, Shawn Bode or Ross Perkins or their current staff...as well as Meat and Aga either.
Originally posted by Chichio@Jan 27 2005, 03:07 PM
I agree with you. This is getting stupid. I shouldn't have said a thing. I wish you all good luck, gentlemen. Maybe I’ll post here more in the future if you'll have me.
Everyone is welcome. Continue to come around.... just looks suspicious when your first post smells like spin control.
Kathi vouches for you and thats all I need to know.
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Originally posted by XXXPhoto@Jan 27 2005, 04:59 PM Now how long will it take Mike to come along and blame the liberals for this? ...lol
HAHA
I blame the cockholsters!!
Glad something is finally happening with them!!
Somene give Aga and Meat a big broom, so they can sweep out all the cockholsters out the industry!
Hell, maybe I would come back!
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Confucy wants to blame Kevin Mitnick..... too bad she cant say jack shit cuz shes under a permanent restraining order.
And too chicken shit to post here...
Face it Confucy ... I personally clipped the lying lips from your face.
Your relegated to unload your mouth full of shit to the sheep at the Zoo and the idol worshippers at JustBlows!
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You know I really shouldn't say anything.. but.. fuck it..
Thanks Vick for bringing us back to earth as usual ;-)
I should say Meat has been warning of the practices of ST for a LONG time now, and openly and fully publicly, so none of this is new. Well with the exception of the server grab.... I have heard something on that, but the source is not what I would call fully reliable, so I'll leave it be.
For Tim & Chichio, I too have been around for a long time, but not as long as you, and I lurked boards LONG before I started posting.. when I did first post here I was impaled for what was spin control at that time, but I stuck.
Smarter people across the board here than most other places and worth joining in.
The Oprano board is like the Boy Scouts - "Be Prepared"
Originally posted by CuriousToyBoy@Jan 27 2005, 06:04 PM Smarter people across the board here than most other places and worth joining in.
The Oprano board is like the Boy Scouts - "Be Prepared"
Boy scouts my ass! :P
Oprano is a crucible, a baptism by fire, for those who are new here. But it is only the latest in a long line of them ... First the original YNOT, later Netpond when Serge was there, in some ways (on some days) GFY can be like that (except it also suffers myriad fools too gladly) ... But Oprano definitely is.
I wouldn't say "no spin zone" is an apt motto or ever was apt for this place. Mike and Serge certainly always had their own "spin" and let others spin in their own various ways.
But this place does like to seperate the chaff from the wheat.
Originally posted by gonzo@Jan 27 2005, 12:02 PM Ever notice when the shit hits the fan new names start popping up to that suspiciously look like spin control?
Ok, the title of this thread is Sextracker, the inside info, so I assume that's what you all want.
Disclaimer: I obviously have an ax to grind, you needn't point that out. Secondly, I am not trying to represent myself as a good guy, I currently work for an adware company.
I was at that "meeting" years ago at Nicks house with Bode. As hostile as Nick is on this board I remember him being a perfect gentlemen and a gracious host in person. I certainly enjoyed Nicks hospitality.
So lets start from the second beginning...
Flying Crocodile Inc. became FCI Inc after Andy Edmond was pushed out due to his gross mismanagement. Shawn Boday and Ross Perkins assumed the role of co-CEO's and shared Andy's former office. I had been on a forced "sabatical" for many months due to my inability to play ball with Andy. Its funny how dificult people (myself included) become when they are lied to, cheated, and not payed. Once Andy was forced out I returned to manage the advertising sales team. This was not to last as Shawn was insistent on managing advertising sales himself. So, I took over the management and marketing of Sexlist, a property I had developed with my partner and sold to FCI a few years before. It was at this time that Richard Fannin (Bama) came to the FCI offices one night to pitch a project to us. Shawn was busy so I met with him. Bama was pitching what is now known as adware. Sneaky adware. I was excited and pulled Shawn into the meeting. Shawn heard Bama out and said thanks but no thanks. We had other shit going on...
I was going to go into great detail, but I'm lazy and would really rather not do all the typing. It would be boring anyways. So I'll just kick down the facts about FCI, Avenue Media, etc...
1. FCI entered into a distribution agreement with Bama, they were to provide Bama with 1 million installs. Shawn read between the lines and noted, "the agreement does not specify where these installs are to come from!" Long story short, Bama got 1 million installs, from China and Korea.
2. While partnered with Bama, FCI had access to the admin to Bama's software. This was used by Shawn to gain valuable insight into the adware business. This access was also used to steal Richards intellectual property. When Bama declined our offer to provide additional services in consideration for a larger stake, we simply started developing our own software. Developers were given access to Bama's admin interface.
3. It was decided that this new business should be based offshore, work commenced on forming Avenue Media. Jim Finnell (CFO and one third of the FCI corporate triumverate) was pushed out at this time by Bob Kim over personal differences as well as Jim's desire to own more of Avenue than Bob, Shawn, and Ross were willing to give up.
I remember when Bama showed me this product.... I told him he was releasing hell on the net.
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4. Unbeknownst to me (my former partner at Sexlist and I were to have 60 points on FCI/AM's adware deal) FCI had started developing a second, confidential adware product incorporating Bama's feature set, as well as additional functionality Shawn and I had come up with.
5. While a friend/business acquitance was visiting on business Shawn and I (the third person can't be identified) discussed the feasability of distributing through the p2p's as well as through viral email methods.
6. FCI had a employee (interestingly enough he's posted on this thread) working full time adding URL's into the config. These URL's would have either all, or some percentage of their traffic redirected. This list included but was not limited to the top sites on Sextracker! All this work was done from the Seattle offices of FCI, not in Caracao. The employee was on the FCI payroll.
7. I think it should be noted (this is going to be a big duh to some of you) that the only reason AM was formed was to hide assets and evade taxes. As Bob Kim (the architect of all this jiggery pokery as FCI's CLO) once told me, "yeah dude, we're going to make alot of money, someones going to find out what we're up too and sue the shit out of us. Also, we don't want to pay taxes on any of this income."
My involvement with FCI ended on a sour note when I realized that they had no intention of sharing the ill-gotten gains with me. Obviously these people have bad parents who didn't teach them vital life lessons about sharing and playing well with others.
I moved on and am hated by millions of people the world over in my own right.
And hey fuckers at FCI- You pussy little maggots know who I am, I know who you are. YOU ARE A BUNCH OF COCKSUCKING LITTLE PUNKS THAT WENT FROM HIDING UNDER YOUR MOTHERS SKIRTS TO HIDING BEHIND YOUR PUNK ASS LAWYERS. YOU GET CALLED OUT BY A REAL MAN AND YOU CALL THE POLICE ON YOUR CELLPHONES IN YOUR GANGSTA SUV. YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU BITCH ASS SCOTT PERKINS. I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT THIS SHIT ABOUT YOU BEING IN TROUBLE IS TRUE, YOU'VE BEEN SUCKING DICK ALL THESE YEARS, AT LEAST YOU'LL GET PAID FOR IT IN THE JOINT. I'LL SEE YOU FAGGY LITTLE WORMS IN HELL AND STAB YOU FUCKS WITH A PITCHFORK.
Ah. Better than sex. Gotta run, I'm late for yoga.
Yeah, they are fucked. They're fucked because like cockroach's, they only do well in the dark, they can't handle light being shined on their activities.
THANK YOU Eric for posting this information because now I have legal options for stealing my intellectual property and violating a non-disclosure. At the time you and Mark were given access to the administrative back-end - you were not employed by FCI. They violated the non disclosure. They allowed you to duplicate my admin/features on their servers hosted on their network.
That was the direction I was going down before you left the country.
If anyone else has action against FCI, Shawn Boday, Ross Perkins, Scott Perkins or Bob Kim feel free to contact me at fcilawsuit at bamas dot com. I get alot of spam so use Oprano Post as the subject line.
I have a WEALTH of information, contract proposals, emails and ICQ histories regarding this matter.
Nickatilynx - back up this thread/board, then back it up again!
I have signed Non Competes with several adult internet companies. If you have the time and desire to go after a company that you feel is distributing spyware/adware that is taking a significant amount of your income - let's talk.
There is SOOOO much more I could share - but I am not going to violate my agreements and give them a cause of action against me. 2 wrongs don't make a right - it just make 2 wrong people.
Originally posted by Bama@Jan 28 2005, 08:02 PM THANK YOU Eric for posting this information because now I have legal options for stealing my intellectual property and violating a non-disclosure. At the time you and Mark were given access to the administrative back-end - you were not employed by FCI. They violated the non disclosure. They allowed you to duplicate my admin/features on their servers hosted on their network.
That was the direction I was going down before you left the country.
If anyone else has action against FCI, Shawn Boday, Ross Perkins, Scott Perkins or Bob Kim feel free to contact me at fcilawsuit at bamas dot com. I get alot of spam so use Oprano Post as the subject line.
I have a WEALTH of information, contract proposals, emails and ICQ histories regarding this matter.
Nickatilynx - back up this thread/board, then back it up again!
I have signed Non Competes with several adult internet companies. If you have the time and desire to go after a company that you feel is distributing spyware/adware that is taking a significant amount of your income - let's talk.
There is SOOOO much more I could share - but I am not going to violate my agreements and give them a cause of action against me. 2 wrongs don't make a right - it just make 2 wrong people.
Thank you bama... welcome to Oprano. hope to see you around here more too
Nothing like a good friday night to meet new people I always say...
Originally posted by JoesHO1+Jan 28 2005, 11:12 PM-->
QUOTE (JoesHO1 @ Jan 28 2005, 11:12 PM)
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My pleasure Bama. As for whether or not my posts were ethical or wrong, I don't give a fuck. I haven't been in the States for almost two years now. I don't plan on returning. I would have loved to hang out and sue Shawn and have Bob disbarred, spit on Ross, etc. Be that as it may, I had to get the fuck on out of there for other reasons. So there goes the lawsuit. Furthermore, I don't stay in one country for too long...I'm not worried about their legal goons catching up to me.
There used to be something called honor among theives. They opened this door when they robbed me, I'm just walking through it.