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On Mar 30, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Antoine Schmitt wrote:

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>> well...  not exactly:
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> The more I think of it, the more incredible I find this story. If it  
> was a hoax, I would understand. If it is real, then this is opens a  
> strange box, where someone plainly steals someone else's artwork,  
> almost as is. What I don't understand is the motive (I love to  
> understand motives - why does it move, like this ?).

a little googling reveals the culprit to be max herman:

http://www.geocities.com/maxherman_2000/hell.html

googles cache of the same page:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:UntF2ZO3le4J:www.geocities.com/ 
maxherman_2000/hell.html+%22opsin.org%22&hl=en&client=safari

max herman was an annoyance on the rhizome list back in 99/00 or so.

i don't recall ever having any exchanges with him,
so i have no idea why he picked my work to rip off.
(tho to be fair, he's also ripping off some of lias director pieces as  
well.
& he removed the pieces i asked him to remove & replaced them with  
links to the old nato 0+55 site, as if trying to pass that work off as  
his as well.)

he's even been using exact emails i sent out 4 or 5 years ago to  
promote this opsin.org thing.
what's strange is that according to google he's been doing this for  
over a year now on various mailing lists, but very quietly & under the  
radar.

so knowing his character, yes - it's a hoax.
as to motive, i have no idea & could care less.

it's clearly coming from a position of cynicism & manipulation
the exact opposite of what i do.


//m