As apparently just about everyone seems to ignore or misrepresent same basic facts, let me repost some of them:

• I don't care about wether the issue at hand is legal or not. Reread my first posting above. So please stop arguing about copyright.
• I checked just now and I can still find references to MoyoGo on its very own page, Go Databases, Go Editing Programs, and Link Collection (just to name a few pages). So do me a favour and stop using the words "ban", "boycot", "cencorship", and similar ones.
• It is not about the same games being found in another collection. Reread that sentence. Think about the consequences. Reread again. (I'd guess that GoGod/SmartGo/MasterGo/go4go.net share about 80% of the same games. Yet, noone picks on each other.) So in addition, please avoid the words "monopoly", "patent", and similar ones.
• Ask yourself why noone complained about go4go.net, when it appeared some time ago (hint: they type in the game records themselves) If you have never considered the time that goes into creating a collection of thousands of game records (typing in, consistent naming scheme, etc.), then don't assume that you know what you are talking about. Reread the part about fairness and saving time in my first posting above.
• I could not care less if because of MoyoGo's supposed superiority/innovation other collections' sales would plummet. Let me repeat: I don't care about market share, earnings, or revenue of anyone.
• I did not wake up one morning and thought: let's have a little fun and start a fight with Frank.
• There is no usenet cabal. There is no Go cabal either.
• Noone has a right to have community ads profiled through SL. Morten and I decide. Period.
• One year ago, there were no ads. Only the "partner site" links. Why did noone complain then that putting goproblems.com in such a privileged position is unfair? Why did noone say "You have to show ads for my product immediately, otherwise I spam SL"?
• Community ads are by analogy an extension of the partner site links. We help friends making their product/service known. Keyword in the previous sentence: friends (Morten's and mine to be precise). After taking much public abuse and private outbursts of anger, without getting answers to what I thought were politely asked questions, I don't consider Frank a friend of mine.
• The "evidence" considered for making this decision were public available statements on rec.games.go and on Frank's blog, plus private email from Frank.
• From complaint to delisting the ads it took about two weeks. I invested several hours of reading up on the issue, consulting friends, confering with Morten, etc. I did take the issue seriously.
• Finally, I have not read a new argument in this case since the issue went public. So if you have nothing new to add, do me a favour and don't post.

Does it?

I am sorry. It was my very first entry here. I saw pages for all major Go software, and at the time I made the entry, I already knew I was going to be banned from Sensei's Library.

To be honest, if I will be banned, you ain't seen nothing yet. I most likely will write a SPAMbot that inserts my ads into tens of thousands of pages, in order to reach a similar ad distribution as if I would not be banned.

I would hate to do this, but it would be a reasonable solution to an excessive and unethical boycot, and I would cease immediately if I would not be censored any more. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience caused. Let's hope the principals of this server will come to their senses before I have to ressort to these unpleasant tactics. But if war will be declared, I will fight it. When a site has a near-monopoly in the Western Go world, it is highly unethical to block a a single vendor without going to an extremely arduous process of weight and counterweight. This site has become bigger than Mr. Holossi and Mr. Pahle.

Morten, SL risks getting "blocked" itself. Calm down and keep the folks here under control. Slander and libel are serious offences.

I think the worst thing you could do is denying me the opportunity to defend myself against the criminal accusations made here. The only defence (in a courtroom) you would have for enabling anonymous people to accuse a non-anonymous person of a prisonable offence is the fact that it is an open forum where I can defend myself.

Denying me of that right will result in immediate legal action towards the publisher of this website as soon as a single libellous statement towards my person is made. I do not like to have verbs like "illegal" and "criminal" associated with my name and business.

As soon as this happens, those who make these allegations are "illegal" and "criminal" themselves, including the operators of Sensei's Library. I'm being childish perhaps, but deadly serious.