Based on the Caribbean island of Curacao, Avenue Media has ties to
Shawn Boday, who in court documents is listed as a "sales consultant."
Boday, who could not be reached for comment, is the founder of Seattle-based
Flying Crocodile Inc. Flying Crocodile operates SexTracker.com, a compilation
of pornographic Web sites and marketing tools for adult Web masters.
In sworn court documents filed last month, Boday said that Avenue Media
suffered a loss of nearly a million Web "hits" during a two-day period
in mid-November. He said an investigation determined that DirectRevenue
was responsible for sending "computerized commands" that deleted the
company's software from users' hard drives.
Andy Edmonds had ties to Lycaeum.org (an online entheogen encyclopedia).
No biggie really, Andy is/was something of a psychonaut. Andy Edmonds
was hired by Kelly Kampen in 1996 to code Sexlist, he pulled Ross into
the project. They exited out of that deal by breaking into Kelly's office
and stealing their employment agreements. When they left they swiped
Kelly's IP as well and out of that assf--- came...Sextracker!
Shawn came on board a couple months into the Sextracker project. Shawn
was not a founder, programmer, or anything else other than a really
smart marketing/advertising/biz dev guy. Andy got caught up in the times
and started to believe his own PR. Too bad because he was a bright individual.
Andy was one of the quickest intellects I've had the opportunity to
work with in this business. Unfortunately he had an ego to match. That
ego (and hard drugs) got us all in alot of trouble.
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 s--- going on...
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.
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 s--- 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.