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The internet marketing forums have been buzzing for weeks now about the mysterious "1 Billion Software Pirate" and his "Treasure Coach" internet marketing training. His real name is Maksym Vysochanskyy. But who is he, really? And what is he teaching in "Treasure Coach"? This so-called software pirate is a thin, bald, Ukrainian man in his late twenties. He first made the news 1n 2003, when he was arrested by the Royal Thai Police. He was on vacation in Thailand with his wife. Agents of the US Secret Service and US Postal Inspection Service had trailed him to Thailand after interceping his email. Following his arrest, US news stories reported that the pirate's real name was Maksym Kovalchuk, and that he was traveling under the assumed name Vysochansky, using a false passport. According to other reports, Vysochanskyy had been selling the illegally copied software on eBay and other websites for about one-eighth of its retail price, or about $375,000. The news stories also contained hints of a darker story. Vysochanskyy was a computer crime "kingpin," according to an anonymous US official. The total damages he had caused were not $3 million, but $100 million,m according to a Ukrainian news agency. There were "other suspects" being sought, and hints of identity theft and bank fraud as well. At first, the news stories suggested that this was a big, mysterious, story. A Thai newspaper proclaimed him the "1-billion pirate", but then revealed that the retail value of the pirated software was only US $3 million. A year later, in 2004, Vysochanskyy was extradited to the United States, where he was imprisoned while awaiting trial. When he was finally tried, in 2006, it came as an anticlimax, and he was sentenced to the three years he had already served. Reports at the time of his sentencing are oddly silent about the magnitude of Vysochanskyy's crimes, citing only $20,000 in laundered funds transferred by wire to a bank in Lithuania. And now, nearly four years after his release from prison, Vysochanskyy has reinvented himself as an internet marketing entrepreneur. His new internet marketing course, "Treasure Coach," is due for release on January 21, 2010. Oh, and by the way -- everything in "Treasure Coach" is supposed to be 100% legal. So, in the end, Vysochankyy wasn't a billion dollar pirate, or a computer crime kingpin. He operated what seems, in retrospect, a fairly modest criminal enterprise, netting less than half a million dollars plus a 3 year prison sentence.
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