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The reason his income streams kept blowing up is because they were all basically scams and/or spam exploiting early Internet search and advertising schemes, which in pretty short order either collapsed or got wise.

Which is good to see, in a way. As scammy and spammy as the web is today, this shows it could be worse. Hopefully today's scammers are chasing a moving target too, and with any luck having even less success. I'm not certain that's the case (some of the crap seems to have just gotten institutionalized) but one can hope.



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