StoneBase: Theft to Slander

"AWater", the author of StoneBase (the guy that admitted to plagiarizing my stones, stone sounds and board texture - not to mention the fact that he's running a pirated copy of the program itself ), thought that the best defence is the offence, so he posted this today:

From: "Melon Ware"
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: ABOUT FRANK DE GROOT
Date: 10 Oct 2006 05:34:13 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com
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Message-ID: <1160483653.824094.139940@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.141.232.178
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IT IS ABOUT FRANK DE GROOT ATTEMPTS MASSIVE PIRACY OF SMARTGO AND OTHER COMPETING GO SOFTWARE. THE PLAN WAS CONCEIVED BY HIM LATE LAST YEAR AND I WAS APPROACHED BY MY SOURCE AS FINANCIAL AID FOR HIS DISTRIBUTION CHAIN.

I DECIDED TO SPEAK OUT NOW BECAUSE WE LOST OUR "GUARANTEE OF VOLUME" AS PROMISED BY HIM.


The NNTP Posting-host of 219.141.232.178 (see header) resolves to beijing.asianamericancoal.com in China.

I am now in the process of finding out his real name and address, and then I will hire a lawyer in China to submit this case to the police in his city of residence. So far it's plagiarism and aggravated slander (slander with intent to cause financial damage to a competitor).

This is the WHOIS record for his website, www.stonebase.cn: