Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 00:05:22 04/08/05
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Hello again Chris, Let us go over once again the series of events that led to the problems between the Arena Team and myself. 1. I made issue to the amount of information required to sign up at your Arena website: http://www.playwitharena.co.uk. I felt it was a privacy issue and had a number of people questioning the motives behind it. 2. I began to host the Arena setup files that I was legally able to do under the non-commercial license that was established at that time. I was not a commercial site, and I was making no money off the availability of Arena on my site. Therefore I was legally able to do so. 3. You called my webhost provider and told them I was hosting copyrighted material and that it was piracy. They of course suspended my hosting account until I made contact. 4. Once my host read the license agreement, they stated I was legally able to do so, but would rather not get in the middle of the dispute, so I agreed not to host the file and it was removed. 5. You told me to ask for permission to host the file. I did as much by posting in your public forum. I did it respectfully, and was banned from your site for my efforts. Once again you are just playing games. Then when I started to point out the license agreement, I was filtered from the site entirely. 5. You then sent an email to my ISP stating I was a software pirate and you had banned me from your website. You stated you could confirm it was me by my ip address which you attained from the Nuke Sentinel addon to PHPNuke. When confronted by my ISP I stated it was true that I was banned from your site, but I was not in breach of anything. I passed along contacts of mine within various anti-piracy agencies that would confirm my stance AGAINST piracy. Once again your allegations were dismissed. 6. As a result of this you left the Arena Team (or so everyone was made to believe, when really you just hid in the shadows until the heat went away). 7. You once again contacted my webhost stating that I was hosting pirated chess programs, and that Crafty was a "partner" program of Arena. Once again my site was suspended until I proved that Crafty was not a "partner" program at all, and was an open source program for all to download. The files on my site were compiled executables for those that could not do it for themselves, and other files were user contributions. Again my service was restored. Just so I wouldn't have to go through it all again, I put readme.txt files in every directory stating what the files were, and who contributed them. Now the above information is going to follow every single thread you make on any public forum that I have membership to. It is time that everyone knows the kind of person you are, and the actions you take when you can not get your way. Peter
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