"kudane" wrote:
IMHO the article has a few things correct (for example Brock Peirce was in First Kid), but in some of the more incriminating details I believe they have made their own conclusions.
I think you are jumping to conclusions yourself. You may have inside info about EQInterface/EQ2Interface.com that contradicts one claim, but that "truth about IGE" article has a lot of good info.
I didn't write it, but I researched some of the same stuff a while back, with evidence from media reports. Here's my version:
IGE's CEO Brock Pierce was arrested in Marbella, Spain in 2002 with Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley. An international arrest warrant had been issued in 2000, when the trio left the USA after being forced to resign from their disastrous dot.com DEN (Digital Entertainment Network), following a sex abuse case against Collins-Rector which was settled out of court. Collins-Rector and Shackley had earlier founded and sold the ISP Concentric Networks.
Pierce and Shackley were released, but police reportedly found "enormous amounts of child ****" at their villa. Collins-Rector (who changed his name in 1998 from Mark Rector) was extradited to the USA and remained in custody until he pleaded guilty in June 2004 to luring five male minors across state lines for sex. Alleged victims claimed they were drugged, raped, and threatened with death. Each charge carried a possible jail term of up to 10 years and he was sentenced on September 9, 2004, but the final sentence is not recorded online.
Pierce, Collins-Rector and Shackley also had a $4.5m default judgement against them over offences with teenaged boys in the Beverly Hills and west Los Angeles area dating back to the early 1990s, after losing a civil court case brought by victims.
Chad Shackley had dropped out of high school at age 15 to live with Collins-Rector, who was in his late 30s. Brock Pierce, child star of The Mighty Ducks and First Kid, later moved in with them. In 1999 at age 18, Brock Pierce's DEN salary was $250,000. DEN blew its US$60 million venture capital on a video streaming website targeting "generation Y". Brock Pierce produced a series for DEN called Chad's World, about a gay teenager who moves in with a gay couple.
Apart from the crude flash movie you can find by searching google for "den dot com deadpool" (without quotes), a journalist also recorded his six weeks at DEN.
Edited, Wed May 3 23:19:20 2006 by MorvenDee