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Post #911312

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Williarob
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Team Negative1
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23-Feb-2016, 5:42 PM

I stand corrected, it wasn’t a frame or a file posted by Poita that set Mike hunting for him, it was a file name. Here is the original Skype Chat:

[6/14/2014 8:10:37 PM] Mike Verta: Who is David (poita?)
[6/14/2014 8:11:03 PM] Mike Verta: Do you know?
[6/14/2014 8:14:56 PM] Mike Verta: might go by the name poitapoita
[6/14/2014 8:15:02 PM] Mike Verta: on forums, etc.
[6/14/2014 8:16:47 PM] Mike Verta: Found him on OT.com
[6/14/2014 8:17:08 PM] williarob: All I know is that he is very sick, most of the time.
[6/14/2014 8:17:22 PM] williarob: And he lives in Australia
[6/14/2014 8:17:49 PM] Mike Verta: By the most random of coincindences, I saw him asking for help with some DPX files on a forum for reading audio from optical scans of film.
[6/14/2014 8:18:14 PM] Mike Verta: He posted the names of his test frames, and they were my naming convention for one of my scans.
[6/14/2014 8:18:50 PM] williarob: He has his own scanning machine that can make IR scans, bought it on ebay
[6/14/2014 8:19:13 PM] Mike Verta: Yes, but this was a very specific naming convention that couldn’t have happened by coincidence
[6/14/2014 8:20:26 PM] williarob: weird. I don’t have any of your scans, apart from the Greedo sequence, and I don’t know how anyone else could have it. And as I say, he’s in Australia
[6/14/2014 8:20:56 PM] Mike Verta: I know how he could have it, I’m just stunned by the irresponsibility of the person who’s done it.
[6/14/2014 8:24:05 PM] Mike Verta: What’s weird is half of his posts are signed with -Peter
[6/14/2014 8:24:56 PM] williarob: I only know him as Poita. Never spoken to him directly.
[6/14/2014 8:25:25 PM] Mike Verta: Hmmm… unfortunate, however it’s gone down.
[6/14/2014 8:25:31 PM] Mike Verta: People suck.
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So once again, Poita I apologize - I misremembered the conversation. But anyway, the point is that THIS is where Mike’s story begins. Since only 2 or three people could have sent out those files, it was this incident that tipped Mike off to the fact that the scans were now in the wild… Also note that at this point in time, I had no idea we were about to receive a copy too.