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LeeNoga · 02-13-2005

Good Grief, this ended up everywhere..LOL...

BillPMB, I never owned a McDonalds, and I never made a cent from the zipcode list. I purchased the list for 2K under a license just as many other companies did.

The list was owned by the law firm of Greg Piccionelli and his partners who had over 40 years of first amendment experience. They compiled all the obscenity cases and came up with the zipcode list, red [hot-recent prosecutions], blue [had convictions but have been dormant lately], and yellow[no convictions on record].

To this day, if I remained in retail like I was back in the mid 90's, I would still adhere to this list, and believe this list kept me out of trouble.

If you did not know this, the Feds opened a record on me from Daytona Beach, and my case we sent to the Dept. Of Justice in Washington, who said I was to "small" to set up a sting.

I felt the heat, and sold of Zmaster in 1999, a week later they busted a women doing cams out of her house 70 miles from me in Polk County. I often wonder, if this was a result of them not being able to swoop down on me.

I had been the copyright "Poster child" and I was not going to be the same child for obscenity.

I believe 1000% the Feds made orders from my ZMaster site within hostile jurisdictions hoping I would ship the product to them.

Having done fulfillment for years, we were familiar with our zones, and during the time I was being investigated, we all of a sudden got a slew of orders from all hostile areas from the zipcode list. This was very odd behavior. Maybe this was coincidence, but the nbr of orders were really out of place.

About 90 days later, this stopped and fell back into our normal pattern and for a couple of more years NEVER got orders from the hostile areas we had a ton of "odd ones" all within 90 days.

It was during that time, I spoke about the zipcode list...only because I was a target, and we had no idea if others were target. So I came forward...and released as much information as I could to "educate" since I had a lot of money wrapped up in legal fee retainers/consultations.

At that time many webmasters could not afford attorneys, and I figured I got one heck of an education on my dime, and chose to release the information I felt saved me ass from prosecution.

Many companies licensed this zipcode list directly from Greg Piccionelli, and still use it today, but I never profited except from the information that helped me avoid a setup and sting.

Nothing more, nothing less.

02-13-2005	#4
LeeNoga Members Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 394	Good Grief, this ended up everywhere..LOL... BillPMB, I never owned a McDonalds, and I never made a cent from the zipcode list. I purchased the list for 2K under a license just as many other companies did. The list was owned by the law firm of Greg Piccionelli and his partners who had over 40 years of first amendment experience. They compiled all the obscenity cases and came up with the zipcode list, red [hot-recent prosecutions], blue [had convictions but have been dormant lately], and yellow[no convictions on record]. To this day, if I remained in retail like I was back in the mid 90's, I would still adhere to this list, and believe this list kept me out of trouble. If you did not know this, the Feds opened a record on me from Daytona Beach, and my case we sent to the Dept. Of Justice in Washington, who said I was to "small" to set up a sting. I felt the heat, and sold of Zmaster in 1999, a week later they busted a women doing cams out of her house 70 miles from me in Polk County. I often wonder, if this was a result of them not being able to swoop down on me. I had been the copyright "Poster child" and I was not going to be the same child for obscenity. I believe 1000% the Feds made orders from my ZMaster site within hostile jurisdictions hoping I would ship the product to them. Having done fulfillment for years, we were familiar with our zones, and during the time I was being investigated, we all of a sudden got a slew of orders from all hostile areas from the zipcode list. This was very odd behavior. Maybe this was coincidence, but the nbr of orders were really out of place. About 90 days later, this stopped and fell back into our normal pattern and for a couple of more years NEVER got orders from the hostile areas we had a ton of "odd ones" all within 90 days. It was during that time, I spoke about the zipcode list...only because I was a target, and we had no idea if others were target. So I came forward...and released as much information as I could to "educate" since I had a lot of money wrapped up in legal fee retainers/consultations. At that time many webmasters could not afford attorneys, and I figured I got one heck of an education on my dime, and chose to release the information I felt saved me ass from prosecution. Many companies licensed this zipcode list directly from Greg Piccionelli, and still use it today, but I never profited except from the information that helped me avoid a setup and sting. Nothing more, nothing less. __________________ Please see the sig rules, which is pinned for your convenience.