On May 19th, Rob received an email from Money Magazine.  They had stumbled upon my website while researching a story they
wanted to do on how white collar crime has changed the financial outlook for a person or family.  They thought Rob's case would
appeal to a broad audience because with the prevalence of music and movie downloads, they felt everyone could relate to Rob's
story in some way.

It was a tough call on whether to do the interview or not.  We really didn't want our financial life all out there for the world to read,
and we weren't sure if the company Rob is doing contract work for would approve.  Rob spoke with the CTO and they both
agreed that if the company name was kept out of the story, that there wasn't a problem.

What outweighed all of this and made us decide to talk to Money were two things.  First, we feel it's vitally important that people
understand that despite the fact that practically everyone with a computer is downloading music from the internet, they absolutely
can be arrested and prosecuted under the same exact laws that were used to prosecute Rob.  It *IS* going to happen, there is
no doubt, people doing this CAN be traced, it's not anonymous, and it's important for everyone to realize the possible
consequences of their actions.  By no means is Rob saying, "Don't pirate", we believe it needs to be a personal choice but that
it is important to understand the risks.  While Rob never expected the government to actually start arresting people for
pirating software that were making no money, he still always thought that if they did start, it would happen to someone else
first and he would have warning.  Unfortunately he was the first, and when the Department of Justice decides it's time
to make an example of someone for sharing music, there will be another first. 

The other reason we decided to do this was we hoped it would present opportunity for Rob's professional career.  The
tech job marketplace is brutal today and the fact that Rob has this stigma attached to him doesn't help.  Rob has been looking for
full time employment now for almost two years.  Thankfully many friends have helped out over that period by providing
contract work that allows him to support his son and me, but it's still a strain not to know when the next check is coming
and then having to spend a huge portion of it on health insurance.  If you think you can help out in this area, please check out
the Hire Rob link.

Rob has also been working on a book about software piracy, so if you are a publisher or agent, please contact us.  The book writing thing is
very new to us and we could use some hand holding if you think a book about Rob's story would appeal to the public in general.

Thanks very much and I hope you enjoy the story.  We have no idea how it's going to read, but the people we worked with
were all very professional and convinced us that they were not going to present Rob in a bad light.  I understand it's supposed
to appear in the September issue of Money Magazine which would hit newsstands sometime in mid-August.