From Internet Maverick to Accused Drug Dealer: A Wild Life

There can be a fine line between becoming an Internet billionaire and coming close. And while I still chase my dreams, I look back at my past ventures and realize how some things are just beyond a man's control.

If you get to see the movie about Facebook, Social Network, you'll see how crazy your world can get when you have a massive popular technology. Here's what's not in the movie. In 2005, the co-founder of Napster Sean Parker (played by Justin Timberlake in the movie) had many phone calls and emails with me about the file-sharing technology behind my company's Warez.com and Warez P2P software. It was the 3rd largest peer-to-peer network in the world, and it was decentralized and anonymous unlike Napster. Parker was president of the new Facebook at the time, and I showed him how our network would be perfect for Facebook users to share big files without big server costs and eliminate Facebook having liability on shared content due to our network being decentralized unlike Napster. We formed a company called iP2P to prepare our technology for licensing and get away from the "Warez" name. Sean Parker was very interested to use our iP2P technology, but he wanted to make sure the Supreme Court ruling (Morpheus/Grokster) regarding peer-to-peer networks went in our favor. The court ruled in favor of the record industry, and Parker changed his strategy to use a P2P network inside Facebook, because he didn't want to go through the Napster thing again. After the court ruling, the record industry (RIAA) sent cease and desist letters to the top 7 P2P networks and starting filing $100 million lawsuits. We sent our big lawyers in London to negotiate with the RIAA in Washington DC. I had them approach the RIAA about using our iP2P network of millions of users to sell music legitimately. They were open to my strategy and agreed not to sue us, since we were entirely built organically and no big investors were involved with us. They loved our network, but wanted us to work with 2 other companies to create the end product. The goal by all parties was to create a successful alternative to iTunes to grab some market and leverage. Mashboxx would be the name of the service, our iP2P would be the network, and Snocap would provide the technology to apply the digital rights management technology (making the purchased MP3s unshareable), because at the time only WMA files and Apple AAC files were allowed to be sold on the Internet. Sean Parker became interested again, because Snocap was his friend Shawn Fanning's company. Shawn was the co-founder of Napster. Parker had just been fired from Facebook as president, but retained some shares and was monitoring our progress. However, Wayne Russo of Mashboxx couldn't get the service launched, and our MP3 retail opportunity died. We continued to focus on advancing our iP2P technology, and we are preparing it for applications in the 4G mobile wireless world.

Crazy huh? Well then look at my list of endeavors.

In 1994, a friend and I had an environmental company called BioSource that used innovative enzymes to clean drinking water and clean up oil spills. We were way ahead of our time. We landed a $10 million contract with the government of Mexico to clean their water plants. Just before we started, the Peso crashed hard and funding of the project was halted. A few weeks later, we landed a $20 million contract with the government of Nigeria to clean their oil fields because OPEC was threatening sanctions on them. Just before the product was to be shipped, the government was overthrown by a military coup. Our company never recovered.

In 2005, our innovative peer-to-peer technology was the best in the world. It was forced to shut down after the Morpheus/Grokster Supreme Court ruling.

in 2006, my voice-over-IP software for China, iPhox, was introduced to that country. It was like Skype and allowed Chinese citizens to communicate with the world uncensored and for free. There was so much excitement, that iPhox was selected to be the 2006 title sponsor of the China Super League, their NFL of soccer. A couple of months later, the government blocked and banned the software.

I've worked hard and done some exciting things, and I have exciting things in the works. Soon I will be very successful. The moral of my story is to NEVER give up. Never stop believing in yourself.

On top of being a quadriplegic, I've survived the crashing of a country's currency, a military coup, a supreme court ruling, and censorship by a communist nation...but my biggest battle through all this has been a local sheriff and his deputies who have spread across town that Chris Cain is a drug dealer. They have spent 12 years pushing the narrative that a once brilliant mind gave up after becoming paralyzed, and since he sits in his home in the middle of the woods without a 9-to-5 job, his only option was to become a "a weed and crystal meth ringleader." That quote was from the former task force leader Hicks who told me what was written in my files.