Rare Book E-List Owner Indicted in Theft of Amazon E-Mails
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Rare Book E-List Owner Indicted in Theft of Amazon E-Mails
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:48:29 -0400
http://www.imarketingnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=16214
Rare Book E-List Owner Indicted in Theft of Amazon E-Mails
July 18, 2001
By: Dean Tomasula
Senior Editor
dean@[redacted]
A Massachusetts man has been indicted earlier this month on two
counts of criminal conspiracy for allegedly intercepting e-mail
messages that Amazon.com sent to its book dealer clients.
Bradford Councilman, who operated Interloc Inc., one of the
earliest e-mail lists for rare and out-of-print book dealers, was
charged with stealing the content from Amazon e-mails to develop
a "most wanted" list of books and to gain insight into his
competitors. Councilman also ran an Internet service provider
called Valinet.
Amazon would not comment on the case.
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