11-17-2005, 10:09 PM
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Serge Birbrair tells Luke: "You give him [Levi] credit for inventing the click-thru program. He tries to portray that but it is not true. The first click-thru program was invented in 1996, about three weeks before Levi, by Al Hadhazy from Amateur Hardcore.
"The way I know this story is that I was working with Al and Ron at the same time. I remember which program came first. I remember that Ron was going to sue somebody for circumventing their efforts to create the program. I remember Ron asking the Amateur Hardcore people if they [Cybererotica] could develop the same program for them.
"Ron loves to take the credit for them but I communicated with Al Hadhazy who says, 'The reason I let him do that is... I was the one who invented it but he was the one who was able to bring it to life.' Even though Hadhazy invented the program, Al closed his. Ron did not and did better than the inventor of it."
Ron Levi: "My pay-per-click advertising came out in August of 1996. Al Hadhazy came out in September in 1996 and he used to have something on his FAQs that said that we had come out with it before him."
Luke: "Why does Serge believe that Al came out first?"
Ron: "Because Serge believes what he wants to believe. If you go look at his Sergescash.com program, he's been paying people since 1995. Serge never even had a click program since 1998. He wants to make himself out like he was in there with all of us but all he was was a guy who sent traffic to all of us.
"I have old emails where I went back and forth with Al Hadhazy over it and he actually changed his FAQ because of it, saying that another good program was Cybererotica, who were actually out a few weeks before us.
"Serge's recollection probably is that he knew Al Hadhazy before he knew me..."
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