 Butler moved with his father near Seattle and worked in part-time technical support positions in various companies.He discovered Internet Relay Chat and frequently downloaded warez, or illegally downloaded software or media.After an Internet service provider in Littleton, Colorado traced Butler's uploads of warez to an unprotected file transfer protocol server –the uploads were consuming excessive bandwidth–to the CompuServe corporate offices in Bellevue, Washington, CompuServe fired Butler.