Thursday, March 3, 2011

"The Great Internet Swindle" --how being Fleeced by Earthlink Networks in 1998 cost one online start up company millions.


 
It all started with an Idea for a social network, a corporate phone call, a $5,000 investment and a conspiracy.  


The Entertainment Online Social Network of 1998. One of the first of it's kind.  I had Tony Hawk, John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Bad Religion, No Doubt and Gwen Stefani's management all set to be involved in one of the greatest idea's of modern technology. Earthlink Networks, CEO Sky Dayton and his employees destroyed everything. 



These are the facts I'm Providing first hand knowledge and Empirical Evidence. If you are an Earthlink lawyer all of you should be working for me, Because I'm smarter than you.  I only deal with the facts


Sincerely --Mr. Richard Alan White 
Founder and CEO of the "PRP online video network."©1998-2011 All Rights Reserved.

CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD? The players: EARTHLINK NETWORKS, Earthlink employees Ernie Lee, Robert CyrMarty Kassowitz, and Sky DaytonALL FOUR OF THESE MEN SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
[emphasis mine]


If you are one of the four players and would like to wiggle out of this one please by all means. I've been waiting 12 years to hear why you all conspired to steal my money, my idea and failed to deliver my online social video network website. 
BRING YOUR CHECK BOOK. [Emphasis mine]

Update: Both Marty Kassowitz and Robert St Cyr have amazingly replied to this Empirical Evidence with their fundamentally flawed statements. You can view them at the bottom of this report.


--When I was the Founder and CEO of a new start up company called "PRP online video network" in 1998, I brought my idea to Earthlink Networks corporate headquarters in Pasadena, California where I was told by a corporate representative named Ernie Lee, that my idea was ground breaking, on the cutting edge of internet technology. Respectfully Mr Lee said they wanted in on the creation and development of the website, developing and hosting the files, they would provide me with the right web developer from Earthlink to write all the code. I came up with $5,000 to start up this incredible idea and endeavor. 


I would also pay an additional $700 a month to Earthlink Networks for hosting all the video files, codes and website.  This Jane's Addiction footage was the first video that was uploaded in 1998 on my new social video network site where you could rate videos thumbs up or thumbs down, leave comments, and share video links with friends. The idea of uploading videos from home was there, but the technology wasn't.  What I was creating was a video file-sharing social network that pre dated you-tube by seven years. 

I had successfully sent the first AVI file real player hyper-link codes, copied and pasted from my online network via email to Pro Athlete/Skateboarder Tony Hawk after he landed the first 900 at the X-Games in 1999. Tony was thrilled with the link I had e-mailed him as Jane's Addiction is one of his favorite bands. 


I still had the 1998 AVI files and the real player hyper links on my site which was parked online until 2001, it was not available and never launched to the public.  My dream, and my idea of actually sharing video files over the internet really worked. It was amazing, I was on the cutting edge of technology.  Tony Hawk received the very beginning of the first social video sharing link in January of 2000 from PRP online video networks.  The following is an email from Tony Hawk sent to me regarding this video and the real player he had that was needed to share online video files. We had been talking about skateboarding together with skateboard legend David Z.


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Date Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:37:04 +0100, 
From:Tony Hawk 
To:Richard White.
Richard, Thanks for the nostalgia. I have no idea what happened to David Z, but he was always one of my favorites - low key and ripping. I'll never forget the picture of him doing a huge lein air at Marina. Funny, I met  Zack DeLaRocha a while ago and he said that we skated Whittier together on the last day it was 
open. He says that I taught him layback airs in the clover. I would love to see that video of Jane's addiction I have RealPlayer.    


Footage I shot of Tony Hawk in 2001.



For some unknown reason to this very day, Earthlink Network's corporate headquarters would end up Fleecing me, my start up company, and my idea causing me an unsustainable product by not completing the video files, website codes, and stealing my content where I had to file intellectual property theft with the FBI. After I had paid over $5,000 to an earthlink employee set up by Corporate headquarters agent Ernie Lee. 


This was one of the second social videos from my online network that was to be posted, instead it was stolen by Earthlink Employee Robert St Cyr. Because my work is a registered copyright, the FBI had this footage returned
in a matter of hours. Mr. Cyr was the third person in my 25 year history regarding this footage to try and steel it.  

I had sent and posted these social videos from my site's network to John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers back in 1999 as well. Here's John's reply: 
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From: "John Frusciante" 
To: laaccess@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Rare RHCP stuff
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:00:27 GMT
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
X-UIDL: 85e329887b7e29c9424b13a7dbda98ae
X-Mozilla-Status: 0011
Content-Length: 3703

"Richard, I'm trying to work on a film in my spare time ( which I don't have a whole lot of right now) but get back to me and see if you could make a date to make a stop at my house and I'll fill you in on all the details( if i am home at the time of course )"



This social video network was slated for a launch date of  December, 24 1998. I had John Frusciante very interested  in this online social video network, as well as Tony Hawk, I was in touch with Gwen Stefani and her camp, they were interested and would have jumped all over this endeavor. This is the famous Gwen Stefani video one of the video's Mr. Cyr threatened to steal in 1998. The FBI had them returned;



It would take the whole year of 1999, two lawsuits, filing criminal theft with the Los Angeles district attorneys office, and a Federal Offense charge with the FBI to get my intellectual property returned. Ultimately the Fleecing of my small start up by Earthlink Networks cleared the path for what was thought to be  a new idea by  You-Tube when they launched in 2005.

Below is a scathing letter from my legal counsel to both Earthlink Networks and their employee Robert Cyr. Mr. Cyr was ordered by the court to pay $2,500 and finish the website within a 24 month period. It's been 12 years, he is in contempt of the court order, At this time Mr. Cyr owes $5,000 plus court interest not to forget what ever court violations there may be.













It's ironic that the implementation of my idea would be destroyed by Earthlink Networks in 1998. Seven years would pass and I'd watch You-Tube launch a similar Idea in 2005. Surprisingly I would then in disgust and amusement upload my videos on an internet video sharing website that was not of my creation, but was similar to what I was working on creating with Earthlink seven years earlier.


This document was sent to me from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. One of the first fraudulent internet acts conspired by Earthlink Networks in 1998. [emphasis mine] 
I went to the Lost Hills Sheriff's department near Callabassas California to retrieve my content from Mr. Cyr's home. Two sheriffs units escort me to the Earthlink employee's place of residents. He was not there, of course he wasn't, Mr. Robert St Cyr had my property in his possession illegally for 39 days and was threatening to copy all my files and my content then disappear. I follow the sheriffs instructions to file immediately. On January 25, 1999 I receive a letter from Gill Garcetti of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office Bureau of Investigations Major Fraud Unit telling me they have reviewed my complaint and determined this matter is a Federal Offense and is under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. So I went to the FBI and filed a complaint against  both Earthlink Networks and Robert St Cyr on February 1, 1999.The FBI forced these guys to return my property or face federal criminal charges.


I would also pay a visit with my girlfriend at the time to another Earthlink employee named Marty Kassowitz at the Pasadena Earthlink Headquarters. He was in charge of the Business sales unit. After I calmly and politely explained to him the severe nature of what his company had done in the lobby of Earthlink,
I would then ask him directly to let me have a meeting with Sky Dayton so he can help fix the problem. Mr. Kassowitz did a "FAKE" laugh, then his face turned into a grimace and he asked me to leave. I was perplexed, I was leveraging professional customer service business skills that I had been trained to use over a twelve year period by United Parcel Service a fortune 500 company.  To remedy a problem they had caused, sincerely in good faith, offering Earthlink and their CEO Sky Dayton information to help them remedy the problem we were all facing.


Instead Mr Kassowitz obviously had his own agenda, he was extremely mean-spirited, unhelpful, nasty and immediately became "Adversarial" towards me. I was asking for help in getting my content returned and the website finished. Mr. Kassowitz on the other hand "Pretended" that  this did not happen and that he suddenly did not know who I was or what I was doing there in the lobby of Earthlink, he then gave his notion that Robert St Cyr suddenly was not an earthlink employee, that Mr. Cyr was fired by him. The moment I shared with him what I'm sharing with you now is when Mr. Kassowitz started to pretend that I was not a customer.
[emphasis mine]


This is the empirical evidence that Earthlink was in fact developing and working directly with Robert Cyr in creating one of the first Social Networks in 1998. 


He would then ask me to leave, escorted me out of the building after I told him they (Ernie Lee and Robert St Cyr) were stealing my idea and my content, as we were leaving I made sure he and all his Earthlink Employees heard me yell: "I'm going to the FBI to file Charges against everyone".  Marty started laughing at me like this was some kind of a joke. My girlfriend started to tear up she was crying, at that moment we both knew that Earthlink Networks was a Fraudulent company doing business in Pasadena, California. 


I would then send Mr. Kassowitz a certified letter, I was the customer expressing a concern. Mr Kassowitz was an agent of Earthlink, he offered no customer service skills and failed to resolve a major problem that he could have resolved.
Mr. Kassowitz chose differently. I suspected fraud. 
Of course I never heard from him. It would only take the FBI less than 24 hours to get my tangible intellectual property returned to me after Earthlink employee Robert Cyr threatened to steal all my work, my idea, and my investment of $5,000. I had to take Earthlink to court for the web content hosting fees too. I won the small claims court case against Earthlink.
I would then go after Earthlink employee Robert St Cyr in court.
He was ordered to pay me back and create the finished website
within 24 months. He never did. He disappeared over 10 years ago. He's in contempt of a court order in 2011, 
Someone at Earthlink needs to be held accountable for their actions. Robert St Cyr will be hearing from the court in due time. I personally sent Earthlink Founder and CEO Sky Dayton a certified letter allowing him and his company the time to repair the damage they caused me. He received this letter on January 4, 1999. It was signed by an earthlink secretary. He never replied.

One last thought; Earthlink Networks, along with Earthlink Employees, Marty Kassowitz, his friend Robert Cyr, his friend Ernie Lee and their boss Sky Dayton  All CONSPIRED TO COMMIT FRAUD against me and my business Interest. They caused me financial harm that is incalculable,  they set me up for failure before my website was even launched to the public.  It became the exact polar opposite of the great success stories of companies like EarthlinkYou-Tube, Myspace and facebook
[Emphasis mine]


I perhaps remain the Founder and CEO of one of the greatest internet start up swindles of our technological time with no fault of my own. Earthlink Networks denied everything, CEO Founder Sky Dayton never came forward with any communication skills to help my small start up company, I gave him ample opportunity to do so. It's been 12 years. 


Mr. Ernie Lee of Earthlink Corporate Headquarters was the impetus of this entire conspiracy. He in fact did exist, this incredible document shows Mr. Lee's corporate email address
where we corresponded. These corporate emails are top secret.
So how was I able to acquire such an address? Mr. Ernie Lee gave it to me, he also introduced me to Robert Cyr an employee of Earthlink Networks. "Empirical Evidence" 
His employee Robert St Cyr ran off with my money and my idea as he originally threatened to do, he's still missing and running from the court order, he never finished the website as he was court ordered to do. Robert Cyr's buddy Marty Kassowitz covered it all up by allegedly claiming he fired Mr. Cyr. The notion that I somehow simply paid Mr Cyr like some random guy off the street, rather than an Earthlink employee is again, "Fundamentally Flawed. I have empirical evidence that contradicts Mr. Kassowitz, and the Earthlink attorneys'.
[emphasis mine]   


These people and their non responsive actions at this time and for the past 12 years shows us all that they conspired to take my money , steal my Idea and my social video sharing platform in 1998.  All four of them should be thrown in prison for FRAUD. [emphasis mine]


Mr. Marty Kassowitz somehow has convinced himself that these acts of "FRAUD" never happened at Earthlink, and he still believes 12 years later in 2011 that his buddy and earthlink employee Robert Cyr along with Earthlink Networks had nothing to do with this, that I somehow found Mr. Cyr in the yellow pages working at Jack in the Box, or Mac Donalds but certainly not  working at Earthink in Pasadena. California. Both Ernie Lee and Robert Cyr are missing in action. Mr. Kassowitz with his role of "Facilitator" should be fired, his Earthlink Alumni Status revoked and he should never be allowed to do business again and thrown in Prison, the same goes for the rest of them. FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT FRAUD.
[emphasis mine]


One thing is absolutely certain, my online social video network worked, using avi files and real player seven years prior to You-Tube.  The Fact is, I had successfully sent one of the first social network videos to Tony Hawk, and John Frusciante.  In hind site that one video file I shared  cost me over $5,000 to create then hit the send button.  In view of the latest success of  You-Tube, I believe that I've lost hundreds of millions of dollars by the fleecing of Earthlink Networks and all of their Fraudulent employees. My idea, that I paid for was one of the first online social networks ever created. It was destroyed by the people at Earthlink Networks after they  took my Idea, my money and never delivered the website I paid for. They conspired to commit fraud[Emphasis mine]
 Of course they did, It's "The Great Internet Swindle"   
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Currant status: Marty Kassowitz and his buddy Robert Cyr, both former employees of Earthlink have contacted me regarding this report. 


Update: I just received an email from good old  Robert St Cyr himself. Mr. Cyr we've been looking for you. You were ordered by the Van Nuys court house in Los Angeles California to finish the website, and pay $2,500 within a 24 month period of time in 1999.  This empirical evidence shows Mr. Cyr's signature on this amazing document.
This was a court order that Mr Cyr agreed with and signed. He failed to follow the court order.  . [Emphasis mine] 


This empirical evidence are the two checks that were paid to
Earthlink employee Robert Cyr. Earthlink Networks insisted on Mr. Cyr developing this site.
 I certainly never had the Federal Bureau of Investigations called on me to force me to return intellectual property like you did Mr. Cyr.
Update: March 4, 2011 at 10:27 am via FaceBook. 



I successfully located and contacted Marty Kassowitz. I sent him the link to this story. Mr. Kassowitz replied: "sorry I don't remember you or this issue. I recall Robert Cyr because I fired him".   I replied with: "Perhaps this will help you remember" and I sent him this certified evidence. 

I replied: Read along you'll remember, you laughed at me as you told my fiance' and I to leave the property after Earthlink "fleeced my start up company".  Mr. Kassowitz replied: Sorry as the recolection returns you paid Robert Cyr for a site not Earthlink. Earthlink never sold site development." 


-- Mr. Kassowitz, honestly?  This current answer you are giving is the same non responsive answer you were giving 12 years ago. It's still fundamentally flawed. [emphasis mine]


Mr. Kassowitz, when I asked you to let me have a meeting with Sky Dayton so that we could fix this problem, you refused. What were you hiding? What were you stealing? 


I have the empirical evidence that your employees at earthlink were developing the site, corporate was sending files and earthlink was hosting the site,  Ernie Lee from Corporate Headquarters was the contact. Mr. Kassowitz you are either inept, incompetent or malfeasant.  
 The Los Angeles District Attorney's office and the FBI knew better than you Mr. Kassowitz that you all were/are liable for conspiracy to commit fraud. [Emphasis mine]

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