The Truth Behind Porn Billy, or How My Good Friend Screwed Me

Could you have given him a better deal that wouldn't of motivated him to go on his own? Learning the business and then deciding to go on your own I dont consider that stealing. Noncompete's really dont stick, you really cant stop someone from earning a living.

never trust foreigners

Like my father always said "Don't even trust your own father".
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In 2006 I hired Marc, one of my good friends and school buddies...

Marc was going to be made a partner after 3 years. Until then he would have been given profit sharing. That's how much I valued and trusted him. I'm not sure what more I could have offered him.

During the time that he was working for me, a war broke out in Lebanon. As the bombs were dropping on Beirut, Marc spent half his working time on the phone, worrying about his family. I didn't mind. Hey, that's what friends are for. Once the war finished, he announced he's leaving to join them.

It's funny cause when I showed this thread to a big site owner where we advertise, he forwarded me an email he got from Marc, where he was asking him to give up Rabbits Reviews ad spots on his site to PornBilly. He naturally refused, we've been advertising there for a lot longer than these thieves and so-called 'friend' who doesn't even have the balls to stand up for his actions.

The email below the facts was sent to Mantas a couple of hours before he posted this thread. Obviously it had no impact on him since he still seems determined to take it out personally on Marc, as well as professionally discrediting me (Nic, aka Tiger) , Jorj, and most importantly Pornbilly.

The facts:

1- Pornbilly is in no way copied from any other site, it has its own copyrighted content and team.
2- Marc did not breach any non-compete, non-solicitation and/or non disclosure agreement. The contract clearly states it and I challenge Mantas to prove otherwise. We have proof of the contract and willing to come forward with it if necessary.
3- Marc is not hiding behind his "cousins". Jorj and me are friends of Marc, we take decisions as a team, and we will be introducing ourselves at upcoming shows.
4- Marc did not use any of Mantas' inside information in any manner to build Pornbilly, all of us have been involved in the industry since January 2003 starting with yahoo adult groups and Pornodose.com, which was originally a review site way before Mantas launched rabbitsreviews.
5- It would have been impossible for Mantas to sue since Marc did not breach any contract agreement. Again, I challenge Mantas to prove otherwise.
6- Marc was forced (for personal reasons) to leave Montreal after working 2 months for Mantas and I, after making sure there was no breach of agreement, convinced Marc to join me and Jorj on board the pornbilly project.
7- To prove his honesty and friendship, Marc came forward to Mantas discussing his involvement in Pornbilly.
8- Pornbilly.com was purchased by myself (along with many other domain names) without Marc's knowledge and the fact that it was purchased while Marc was still working with Mantas was purely coincidental.

Since Mantas clearly does not want to believe any of the facts above, I can only conclude that he is using his personal grudge against Marc in unfair and unethical business practices and I hope that this will stop as soon as possible for both our sakes.

Email:
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Hello Mantas,

This message has been sitting in my draft since july of 2007. I thought you would cool down to a "business as usual" state and I wouldn't have to send it. Apparently not. After reading your latest comments on GFY, I've decided to go ahead and send it your way today.

So here it is:

I am Marc?s partner and co-founder of PornBilly. I?m writing this mail because I?ve been informed by many webmasters that you are spreading the negative word concerning Marc and our site. Many sources have told us that you?ve been saying that Marc worked for you, learned everything and stole your inside information to open PornBilly. With that story you mean to discourage both webmasters and sponsors from dealing with us. I decided to intervene hoping that I could clear a few things out and maybe put things on the good track between us as companies and especially between you and Marc as old friends.

The matter of the fact is that I started this project long before Marc started working with you and when Marc had to leave Montreal, he was very reluctant to come on board as he did not want you to think that he betrayed your trust. It took me a lot of convincing to get him to accept, and even then, he still insisted that he should tell you about it because your friendship matters to him and he didn?t want you to hear it from someone else. He was very relieved when he told you and thought that you took it well. But apparently he was wrong. By reacting this way, you?re leading us to believe that you?re taking this matter very personally and we?re sorry you feel this way, but we?re still hoping that you?d understand that we (especially Marc) have nothing personal against you.

On a business level, you have the right to consider us as competitors (even though we think that joining forces would be much more beneficial to both of us). However, you have to rethink the story you?re using against us in the industry because it lacks truthfulness. I want to remind you that we started in this business a long time ago (since the yahoo groups) and we went on to launch PornoDose before you started RabbitsReviews. So we pretty well know the tricks and trades of the industry and we don?t need to learn it from you. In this perspective, let me assure you that Marc had and still has no intentions of stealing or using any information he got at your company. There?s no valuable information that we could use in the first place. The only valuable thing is the knowledge Marc put in your company during the 2 months he was there. So on a professional level, we?re still playing fair and we expect you to play fair too.

Now that you know all the facts, I truly hope that things will pick up between us and that one day you?ll see the potential of us working together, not against each others.

Regards,
Nic
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Nic (aka Tiger) - ICQ 472-798-329

LMAO...I swear I didn't see cherrylula's post before I wrote mine.

Again, Mantas is making false accusations without providing any proof whatsoever. Again, Marc did NOT breach the terms of his contract. This is why mantas cannot press charges and is whining about it publicly like a little girl.

Well Boo-Fucking-Hoo! Either provide some proof or just cut the lies and take your personal drama elsewhere.

Did I mention the proof thing??

Seriously never let anyone see ALL the stuff.

Guy sees the workflow ? Don't let him get even near financials. Gal knows all the sponsors ? She's banned from the site designing.

Cut your business into a few pieces, and hold the keys. Otherwise, you're really askin for it. What you did for this guy people do for their sons for the love of Christ.

FYI non compete agreements generally will be void if the person can convince the court that they had no other way to earn a living. especially since they were just a worker