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Couple sues tech firm 'MaxMind' after IP address glitch

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Mark Melin
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Following a multi-year ordeal where various Internet Protocol address were linked to their home address, and mistakenly affiliated with numerous crimes, James and Threasa Arnold have had enough. The couple from the rural town of Potwin, Kansas are now suing for damages. The suit against MaxMind, a company that geo-targets and has built a database IP addresses and their physical locations, comes after years of police knocking on their door with search warrants at all hours of the night and people who were fraudulently abused on the internet coming to their house to extract information.

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Arnolds want MaxMind to pay $75,000 for defaulting IP addresses to their secluded farm

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.