“The skies don’t light up here like they do back home.”
That’s what she told me when the meteor shower was announced. We both wanted to see it, we needed to see it. We made a pact: rest before midnight, wake up when the world starts falling, and drive until the city lights couldn't find us.
But intimacy has a way of bending time. Once we locked into that hold, the outside world stopped existing. The tiredness that arrived wasn’t just physical; it was intoxicating. It was a heavy, velvet weight that made the idea of a drive feel like a journey to another planet.
When the alarms finally blared at 11:30PM, we arose in that hazy, half-conscious state where sentences don't quite form. We looked at each other and knew. We knew the drive was beyond our grasp. We knew the stars were above the roof anyway. And we knew that no matter where we were, as long as we had each other, we had the world.
"In My Arms" is the sonic representation of that gravity. It’s the sound of choosing the person over the spectacle. It’s the realization that while everyone else is looking up at the sky, the most beautiful thing in the universe is right here, breathing next to you.
Close your eyes. Let the world break.
Mixed and Mastered by SB4L.
Neo R&B. Spacey. Intimate. Selective

In My Arms

"Whatever It Takes" is a narrative concept album based on the true story of the 2019 eBay cyberstalking scandal - when a Fortune 500 company's security team launched a coordinated terror campaign against two bloggers who wrote critical coverage.

Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes, a small newsletter covering e-commerce from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. When Ina wrote about CEO Devin Wenig's compensation, he texted his Chief Communications Officer Steve Wymer: "If we are ever going to take her down..now is the time."

Wymer's responses became evidence:

> We are going to crush this lady
> She is biased troll who needs to get BURNED DOWN
> I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes.

What followed was a "campaign of terror" - seven eBay security employees (including former police captains) sent bloody pig masks, a preserved fetal pig, live cockroaches and spiders, a funeral wreath, a book about surviving the death of a spouse, and porn magazines to the couple. They posted Craigslist ads inviting strangers to the Steiners' home. They flew from California to Boston to stalk their car and planned to break into their garage to plant a GPS tracker. They carried fake "Person of Interest" documents. One even pretended to rescue them - the "White Knight Strategy."

David photographed a license plate. The FBI got involved. All seven employees were convicted.

But the executives who gave the orders? The CEO walked away with $57 million in severance. Never charged.

This is a story about corporate power, surveillance turned against citizens, and the two-tier justice system.

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TRACKLIST

00. Prologue: Based on True Events
01. EcommerceBytes
02. The Article
03. Crush This Lady
04. Whatever It Takes
05. Pig Mask
06. The Natick Job
07. Person of Interest
08. White Knight
09. License Plate
10. Fifty-Seven
11. Still Haunted
12. Epilogue

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SOURCES (14 Primary Documents)

This album is based entirely on documented facts. All text message quotes are from evidence admitted in federal court.

Court Documents:
• Deferred Prosecution Agreement: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/media/1332791/dl
• Criminal Information: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/media/1333086/dl

DOJ Case Page (7 press releases):
• https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/case/us-v-ebay-inc

Investigative Journalism:
• "Take Her Down" - Boston Magazine: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2021/12/02/ebay-ecommercebytes-stalking/
• CBS 60 Minutes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ebay-stalking-scandal-haunts-steiner-couple-60-minutes-2023-03-26/
• San Jose Spotlight: https://sanjosespotlight.com/disgraced-ebay-exec-wielded-power-at-san-jose-city-hall/

SEC Filing (Wenig Severance):
• https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065088/000119312519254832/d806459dex101.htm

Wikipedia Overview:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

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KEY FACTS

57 months - James Baugh's prison sentence
$57 million - Devin Wenig's severance
7 - Employees convicted
0 - Executives charged

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DOCUMENTARY NOTE

This album is a dramatic interpretation of documented events. All factual claims are based on the sources listed above.

Dialogue and internal thoughts attributed to real individuals are dramatized for artistic purposes and do not represent their actual words or thoughts unless explicitly quoted from court evidence. Character perspectives (such as executive or security team POV tracks) are narrative devices used for storytelling, not impersonation or claimed mind-reading.

EcommerceBytes

Original composition by thAImonk  
Language / Style: Vietnamese – Chill Rap x Indie Folk  
Genre: Vietnamese Chill Rap / Indie Lo-Fi / Acoustic Hip-Hop  

Một bản rap nhẹ nhàng mang vibe Đen Vâu x Low G — sâu lắng, mộc mạc, và chân thật.  
Guitar acoustic lặp mềm, nhịp boom-bap nhẹ, và chút ambience tạo cảm giác gần gũi nhưng đầy cảm xúc.  
Giọng nam ấm, rap kể chuyện xen lẫn hát nhẹ ở điệp khúc, như một lời tự sự về thời gian, lựa chọn và những điều ta thường bỏ lỡ.

Một bản nhạc để nghe lúc đêm xuống — đơn giản, thành thật, và chạm vào tim người nghe.

🎧 Free to stream & use in TikTok / Reels (credit @aithaimonk)  
#thaimonk #BanNgoConThoiGian


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