Reward Offered for Porn Site Fugitive
Online porn portal Sex.com offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of fugitive Stephen Michael Cohen, the former Orange County businessman who hijacked the lucrative Web address for five years.
Cohen forged a letter to Internet registrar Network Solutions in 1995 to gain control of the domain name, then turned it into a hard-core site that was among the Web’s biggest moneymakers, according to records in the long-running legal fight that followed.
A federal judge returned the address to San Francisco entrepreneur Gary Kremen last year and in April ordered Cohen to pay Kremen $40 million in actual damages and $25 million in punitive damages.
The judge also ordered Cohen arrested for contempt of court, but Cohen has moved his money offshore and has been living in Tijuana. Kremen, who first registered the sex site name for free in 1994, has said he expects to collect nothing.
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