IP: Porn sites, CyberCash entangle Virginia candidates for governor

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 12:12:27 -0400
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
> From: Ross Stapleton-Gray <amicus () well com>
> Subject: Caesar's wife alleged in link to porn sites...
>
> It's worth noting here the bizarre little tiff between Virginia 
> gubernatorial candidates Mark Earley and Mark Warner.
>
> Earley returned a campaign donation from Bruce Waldack; he's urging Warner 
> to return a donation from Bill Melton.  Earley returned the Waldack 
> donation because Waldack's current company, Thruport Technologies, has 
> sold ad management software to a porn site; Waldack made his big money as 
> the founder of digitalNation... Thruport's products are pretty catholic, 
> as everyone from porn to county government sites use ad management 
> software.  Melton, of course, was the founder of CyberCash... Earley 
> apparently has it on good authority that CyberCash's electronic payment 
> services have been used by (brace yourself) porn sites!
>
> Most recent Washington Post coverage:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38931-2001Jun7.html
>
> It's only fair to note that many of us here in the DC-area may have 
> attended netpreneur-related events sponsored by either of the two ruffians 
> (not Earley and Warner: Waldack and Melton) cited above; if you're a 
> regular NPR listener, you've probably been tainted by Waldack's sponsorial 
> largesse in that department as well.
>
> You might wish to make a note of these possible controversial 
> entanglements, for disclosure as warranted by future political ambitions.
>
> Ross
>
>
>
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