Sex.com thief arrested: Stephen Cohen nabbed after five years on the run

[regic]

It would really shake things up if he wins that battle.

I hope he loses the IP case.  If IP addresses were treated like legal property and could be bought and sold like domain names it would lead to hoarding, rising prices, and inevitably put a squeeze on smaller businesses.

[jezebel]

Kremen's antitrust suit against ARIN http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=14426

“ARIN hands out IP addresses in a kind of contract of adhesion,” Kronenberger said. “That means that in addition to the applicant having to give extensive details about how they intend to use the block of addresses, ARIN can take the block away without any justification. The idea that ARIN can simply take back those blocks is not a popular one in the Internet community, and it is contrary to the best interests of commerce, particularly to small businesses.”

[Kristijntje]

The latest update in this never ending sage:

In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from jail - in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.

Stephen Michael Cohen has been ordered to hand Gary Kremen $65m by a US court but despite years of intense fighting has yet to hand over one cent. On Tuesday morning, after 14 months in jail for civil contempt, Cohen was released by Judge James Ware, because Kremen's lawyers had been unable to chase down his offshore bank accounts.

Cohen claims he is only able to get the details of his various accounts - held in Lithuania, Liechtenstein and the Isle of Man - in person and outside jail, and is due back in court in San Jose on 26 February to tell the judge how that search has gone...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/09/..._released/

[BellisimaJ.]

This story gets stranger and stranger. And more strange still.


TY for the update,Kristijntje!

[regic]

is due back in court in San Jose on 26 February to tell the judge how that search has gone...

Stay tuned for the next article on February 27th: "conman on the run again"  :

[jezebel]

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is due back in court in San Jose on 26 February to tell the judge how that search has gone...

Stay tuned for the next article on February 27th: "conman on the run again"  :
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He'll fake his own death and move to Jersey.  :turkey1:

[mandy]

SFGate has a column on the Sex.com story:

The only thing missing from the Sex.com story is a dead stripper found with a rubber alligator lodged in her throat -- though, by all estimates, to add this to the URL's outrageous legacy wouldn't be a huge shocker. It would only be adding some sex to the mix -- especially considering the Sex.com story includes a fugitive seized by U.S. marshals, hard-luck convicted felons hiding millions in Mexican shrimp farms and strip clubs, the fugitive's daughter caught smuggling over 200 pounds of pot, one multimillionaire dot-com scammer speed fiend with a Stanford MBA, a bizarre bid to buy Caesars Palace and a recent Tijuana gangland-style assassination attempt on a lawyer (nicknamed "The Toad") that left a Mexican cabbie and a 4-year-old boy wounded...

full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...etblue.DTL

[BellisimaJ.]

All Crime And No Sex

Now that is really, really sad.

[amy]

He'll fake his own death and move to Jersey.

I'd take death over New Jersey. 

[mandy]

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Kremen's antitrust suit against ARIN http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=14426

“ARIN hands out IP addresses in a kind of contract of adhesion,” Kronenberger said. “That means that in addition to the applicant having to give extensive details about how they intend to use the block of addresses, ARIN can take the block away without any justification. The idea that ARIN can simply take back those blocks is not a popular one in the Internet community, and it is contrary to the best interests of commerce, particularly to small businesses.”

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The latest update:

Court Dismisses Kremen Antitrust Case Against ARIN as Filed Too Late

full article: http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid.../08/131230
full text court decision (.pdf): http://www.arin.net/media/dismissal-granted.pdf
a related court decision (.pdf): http://www.arin.net/media/clarification-granted.pdf