http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,44967,00.html Nothing That Glitters Is DigiGold By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. July 6, 2001 PDT Hurt feelings, financial disputes and bizarre sexual allegations have led to a legal tiff between a high-profile digital currency firm and its software developer. After the once-friendly relationship between DigiGold and Systemics soured this spring, DigiGold sued the software company in an attempt to keep its servers online. Systemics' computers, which maintain DigiGold's customer accounts, are located on the West Indies island of Anguilla. Systemics' Ian Grigg claims he wants to pull the plug on the server since DigiGold has paid only $370,000 of the $500,000 it owed him under a 1999 contract. But DigiGold says it was willing to pay the remaining cash, according to court documents that describe how a close personal relationship between Grigg and DigiGold investor Douglas Jackson led to the creation of Systemics, the invention of a remarkable digital currency, a spate of personnel disputes and an eventual estrangement. Making an odd situation even more unusual are allegations involving one of Jackson's business development employees, Wajiha Khan, who's described in internal e-mail messages as "a person who would use her physical attractiveness as a tool for manipulation of men." According to e-mail written by Grigg, another employee "was well and thoroughly seduced by Wajiha and her attractive younger sister." In response to DigiGold's lawsuit, a judge in Anguilla prohibited Grigg "from terminating support for the DigiGold project or from taking the server offline," according to documents provided by Systemics. On June 19, Judge Hariprashad Charles lifted her injunction, and the dispute currently is in arbitration. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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