From WFTV news in Orlando, Florida:
A Florida company that sells online commercial payment software has sued its former chief technology officer, claiming that a porn site snapped up its web address when he allowed it to expire.
[...] The St. Petersburg company accuses co-founder and former CTO Lev Gorodinski of keeping vital passwords, software code and other sensitive information after abruptly quitting.
[...] Subsequently, all but one of Epay's 29 customers canceled their contracts, company officials said.
[...] The last customer, a preschool, left when the Epay web domain was turned into a pornography site, the lawsuit alleges.
The company's registration with GoDaddy expired and Gorodinski refused to give the company the information needed to access the account and re-establish its ownership, Epay officials claim.
Why is it always porn sites?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Justin Case on Tuesday December 27 2016, @01:37PM
I read the article (I know) and given that the press always waters down and muffs the story, it is hard to be sure... but it sounds like this CTO, one of the founders of the company, thought the "intellectual property" (knowledge) was his, while the company thought it was theirs.
Sounds to me like it boils down to a simple contract dispute, if they had it in writing, otherwise employment law. Did the company pay him to develop his knowledge, or did he have it prior to founding the company?
Just remember: the computer department is pure expense and provides nothing of value to the company. They should be better off without him. Right?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 27 2016, @09:23PM
"They should be better off without him. Right?"
They went from 29 customers to 0, so maybe not?
(Score: 2) by Justin Case on Tuesday December 27 2016, @11:58PM
Parent -> Score: 29, woosh!
And they that modded you, too.