Randy Saaf is the CEO of Lucid Sight, a game studio that has released several VR titles for the PlayStation, Gear, and Google Daydream. Saaf co-founded OnSystems in 2000 which specialized in encrypted P2P messaging and file transfer. Saaf was the chief executive officer,Record labels turn piracy into a marketing opportunity
/ref> and founder, of

MediaDefender MediaDefender, Inc. (now Peer Media Technologies) was a company that fought copyright infringement that offered services designed to prevent alleged copyright infringement using peer-to-peer distribution. They used unusual tactics such as flooding ...

, Inc., which was purchased by ARTISTdirect, Inc. in 2005 for $42.5 million in cash. Saaf co-founded Jirbo, a large developer of iPhone games, in 2008. Jirbo rebranded itself to AdColony and was sold to

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for $350 million. Saaf co-founded AlphaGenius. AlphaGenius is an investment and technology development firm that farms social media data and produces trading models for the hedge fund industry.

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Saaf speaks frequently about how VR and blockchain will change gaming. Saaf has testified before Congress on Internet copyright violation at least three times,Piracy of Intellectual Property on Peer-to-Peer Networks
/ref> and has worked with Senator

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, Senator

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, and Senator

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to prevent infringement. In 2004, he donated $2,000 to California Senator

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. Saaf appeared in a “60 Minutes” segment on copyright infringement on 31 October 2003, where he talked about his efforts to prevent it. He has also been a prime source for other leading news organizations, and has authored many articles against unauthorized media distribution. A

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native, Saaf attended the

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, after graduating from Edison Computech High School (in 1994). He then transferred to

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and graduated in 1998. Saaf graduated with a B.S. degree in engineering. He spent less than a year with defense technology giant Raytheon, where he worked closely with airborne signal processing—systems that extinguish incoming missiles. Saaf left Raytheon to start the website with friends, InterFriendly.net. It was designed to use P2P technology to give small businesses the ability to transfer large and numerous files. He then enrolled in the

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.Новости - Журнал "Компьютерра"
/ref> A year later, he left, noting that "Law was too technical of a vocation for me."

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