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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
It's interesting you mentioned this because recently I consolidated all my old HD's I've kept around for the last 16 years. I came across some old IM's and emails I had with Sudden over decade ago. I'm not defending him, but he was a bit susceptible/naive back then, with a lot of natural talent.
There's always 3 sides to a story... yours, theirs, and the truth. I'd be willing to bet he was set up to be the patsy from the start. I do remember a long phone conversation we had when he knew I had a lot of contacts for content in the Valley. He then wanted me to call his "partner" in SF and set up an arrangement.
After 20 minutes with the guy on the phone, I hung up on him and called Sudden back and warned him he needs to keep his distance from this guy. Back then everyone was a pirate in one way or another, so one pirate pointing the finger calling out another, fell silent.
Anyway, after looking at my ICQ logs I found out the guy I called, was the dude Sudden got busted with.
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The unfortunate thing is that many of the people involved with scamware, money-laundering, or other illegal activities (think Pirate Bay), do have natural talent, but some of them are pretty young, and when their ethical and moral compasses are defective, they can get seduced by what seems like easy money (sometimes lots of it).
Once they get caught up in it, it's hard to extricate themselves, especially when they hook up with criminal types, since bad guys know how to suck in and control people - it's what they do. Before long the naive that get sucked into the dark side are making rationalizations to justify their unethical/illegal activities.
Sometimes people like your pal Daniel and others who go down that path, have to learn the hard way, that if you lay down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
ADG