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EARLY RADIO AND TV CAREER Curry was born in Arlington, Virginia , but lived in Amsterdam from 1972 to 1987 . After a time working in Dutch Pirate Radio under the Pseudonym "John Holdon", he got his big break in broadcasting as the host of the weekly Pop-music Television Program '' Countdown ''. He also hosted several other Radio and Television programs for the Netherlands broadcast station Veronica . In 1986, Curry became a VJ for MTV. Besides making spot appearances between music videos, he was also host of the programs '' host for the New York City radio station WHTZ , and host of the national program '' HitLine USA ''. THE WEB AND MTV.COM In the late 1980s, before the World Wide Web, in the days of Gopher , Curry began experimenting on the Net. He registered the then-unclaimed Domain Name "mtv.com" in 1993 with the idea of being MTV's unofficial new voice on the Internet. Although sanctioned by MTV Networks , when Adam left to start his company OnRamp, MTV sued him for the domain name, which led to an out-of-court settlement. Curry left MTV in 1994 and founded OnRamp , Inc., a Web design and hosting company. He eventually grew the company to 40 employees and sold it to THINK New Ideas , Inc., another company that he co-founded. He became Chief Technology Officer of THINK. In 1996 , as the Internet was undergoing its legendary "bubble", the company made an Initial Public Offering on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol THNK. It subsequently grew to employ over 400 people and have offices in seven countries, and was absorbed into Answerthink , Inc. in a later merger. BACK TO THE NETHERLANDS After having sold his business in the US, Curry and his family returned to work in The Netherlands in 1999 . He pursued his radio and television career by presenting a radio show for his former employer Veronica which was discontinued in September 2004 . He carried out several loose television assignments and his family briefly starred in the reality soap Adam's Family. Curry and two business partners founded the multimedia company United Resources of Jamby in 1999. It was to act as an incubator and cultivator for new Internet-related businesses. The business was unsuccessful: a collaboration with radio and television company Veronica had to be settled in court. The participation in Kennisnet, a venture to introduce Internet to Dutch schools ended in a bitter argument and rumours of unlawfully signed documents. And a prestiguous content exchange project went bankrupt in 2002 . In 2000 he and his business partner Simon Cavendish, who had also participated in his earlier ventures, founded the RotorJet company which was to offer helicopter services to a select audience. The company went bankrupt in 2005 . In a subsequent dispute, Cavendish, whose real name, according to Curry himself, was Simon Michael Jackson and who had been suspected of drug dealings in the United Kingdom, seized the assets of the company. In April 2005, Adam Curry was ordered by the Dutch Court to restitute approximately two million American dollars which he had illegitimately withdrawn from RotorJet. In 2004, the Curry family, who had resided in Belgium since 1999, moved their home to the United Kingdom. PODCASTING Adam Curry is involved in the development and promotion of Podcasting . He produces and presents a Podcast named Daily Source Code where his daughter Christina and his wife Patricia make occasional appearances. He was a key figure at BloggerCon 2004, held at Stanford Law School . As of June 2005 , Curry hosts a show on Sirius Satellite Radio , entitled "Adam Curry's PodShow", running from 6 to 10 p.m. EST on weekdays. Also in June of 2005 he started the ITunes podcast PodFinder {Link without Title} , a guide to podcasts for new listeners. CONTROVERSY Some controversy was caused by Curry made to Wikipedia 's podcasting article during 2005, which appeared to boost his role in the creation of podcasting by removing mention of early work by others {Link without Title} . Curry later apologised, saying he had not understood how to use Wikipedia editing functions and had been unaware of some of the prior work done by Kevin Marks . [http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/news/2818 In late February 2006, Adam sued a Dutch tabloid magazine for reprinting photos from his Flickr page and publishing details about his daughter. The photos were released under a Creative Commons license, but the tabloid printed a few of them without contacting Adam or Flickr. The verdict of the lawsuit was lenient, only forcing the tabloid to pay a fee if they published the photos again. REFERENCES
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