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QuercusUK
May 2007
On Sale: May 17, 2007
288 pages
ISBN: 1905204663
EAN: 9781905204663
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Non-Fiction
With five million page views every day, sex.com was the most
valuable piece of virtual real estate on the planet during
the first years of the internet. But the fact that it didn’t
physically exist didn’t mean that it couldn’t be stolen. With an ingenious scam—the full details of which have never
been revealed until now—lifelong con man Stephen Cohen was
able to snatch the domain name and walk into a life of
untold wealth and luxury. But Cohen underestimated the
determination of Gary Kremen—sex.com’s original owner—to get
his property back. The efforts took ten years and millions
of dollars, but Kremen eventually saw Cohen finally pay for
his crimes. This is the story of the extraordinary battle between two
extraordinary men: a Stanford scholar with uncanny
foresight, and an uneducated, genius con man with an
unnatural gift for persuasion. The fight pushed each man to
the edge, rewrote the laws, and shaped the history and
development of the internet as we know it.
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