Olympic skiier Dale Begg-Smith is as well known for his involvement with adware as he is for his skiing.

"While he has been deliberately vague about his companies, he has acknowledged owning a domain name called AdsCPM.com," writes CNET News' Declan McCullagh. "A 2002 press release lists Begg-Smith as 'president, AdsCPM Network' and describes the venture as 'a revolutionary pop-under Internet advertising company.' A company called CPM Media has shared the same Internet addresses as AdsCPM."

"A 2005 version of AdsCPM.com captured by Archive.org boasts of displaying 20 million pop-up ads a day and says 'our download partner does 100,000 software downloads a day,'" McCullagh writes. "(Web sites for both AdsCPM and CPM Media are currently offline.)"

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