TL; DR – Whoever “Mark O” is, his allegations are just plain wrong and don’t stand up to analysis. His smoking gun turned into a damp squib. His Axe to grind turned out to be a bent spoon.
| Claim | Reality |
|---|---|
| Sportsbook code was stolen | Demo HTML mockup, timestamped, not IP |
| Dev environment was stolen | DNS shortcut, no code or IP, £1.19 sandbox |
| Nefarious grand conspiracy | “Mark O” has a rather large grudge, and a rather small axe to grind. |
Summary
Apparently, I’m a master thief—at least according to a set of wild accusations about “intellectual property theft” concerning Orillasound.uk and CPT-Tech-Dev.online.
Here’s what actually happened, with all the relevant documents and facts attached (so nobody has to rely on Mark O’s imagination).
What’s Being Claimed?
In short:
- I had stolen their “Sportsbook” system and posted it on www.orillasound.uk
- I had stolen their development environment and placed it on www.cpt-tech-dev.online.
- That this all constitutes some nefarious grand conspiracy.
Nice try, Mark—but reality has a habit of being less dramatic.
The “Report”
Champion Tech commissioned a document from a local corporate services provider in late 2022, which they then used to threaten me.
Needless to say, everything that was said was wildly inaccurate and wasn’t based on any up to date data, nor even facts – for instance, it referred to a GitHub repo that I last touched in 2017, because I’d lost my details to get back in.
More about the Document
This document seems to have resurfaced during 2024 after King Gaming and the other group companies were closed down and placed in Receivership.
It’s clear that this person did not obtain this document via legal means.
This person that obtained this document had also uploaded this document to a document sharing website – presumably hoping it’d be some sort of smoking gun.
Mark O and Champion Tech
During late December 2024, “Mark O” contacted me on linked in and alluded to the existence of this document, as well as making threats to me and to my employer.
Subsequently, the document was posted online in early January 2025 – just before the big ICE conference in Barcelona.
It would appear that this timing was far from coincidental, given the global nature of this conference in the e-gaming sector.
It seems that this posting of this document was based on a personal grudge.
At the time of the report production, late 2022 and early 2023, Champion were very unhappy – as I’ve mentioned before, they’d just been roundly beaten in my tribunal case and were being taken to tribunal by others as well.
During 2023, they (along with King Gaming and others) used SLAPP tactics to try to scare me, via their lawyers, along with other more verbal tactics too.
(They tried to claim Isle of Man as the domain even though I was living in scotland, because the SRA have disallowed lawyers to use these in the UK)
At this stage, it’s certainly worth mentioning the fact that Mr Mark Robson (CEO of King Gaming) was forced to admit that he misled (and lied) to the Gaming Supervision Commission. Additionally, the evidence also showed that he conspired with the HR Business Partner, Pauline Corkill, to produce a document that was dated a good amount of before it was created, thereby creating a false view of what occurred. The tribunal were (rightly) scathing in their assessment of their “evidence” during the hearings.
As you might imagine, I can provide evidence of this, also!
I’m, of course, not alleging that Mark O is any particular person at this stage, but you definitely get an idea that it’s someone who’s closely connected to these companies.
So, you can see their coat is already on a “shoogly peg” as we say here in scotland.
The Evidence (AKA: The Receipts)
1. Orillasound.uk: IP Theft
The accusation made was this one :-
Let’s be very clear: orillasound.uk was registered and established during my employment at Champion Tech in 2020.
The domain was initially set up for personal use and then subsequently utilized for internal demonstrations.
The content on this site was basic HTML and publicly timestamped—far from the sophisticated sportsbook system that Champion Tech developed.
To assert that this basic and openly managed demonstration environment constitutes intellectual property theft is inaccurate and misleading. All activities involving orillasound.uk were conducted transparently, within company guidelines, and with the full knowledge and approval of Champion Tech management.
There was no cloak-and-dagger stuff here—just another day at the digital office.
It’s been digitally preserved here – I’ll be honest that it was a marketing idea that went nowhere fast, and you can understand why when you review it.
It’s pretty obvious to anyone that it’s a demonstration, additionally.
For further proof, you can download the two html files (and all the crappy images) here at www.lukesplace.net/downloads/rs_sports_mockup.zip – the date stamps are preserved, as you can see below.
From my side, I forgot to turn off auto-renew on the domain, and totally forgot about these files until I saw this document.
These files are as shown below :-
There’s not much more to say on this except that it appears that the report’s original authors were misled deliberately by Champion Tech – it seems quite obvious that this “Mark O.” character was a part of this.
2. cpt-tech-dev.online – external copy of dev environment
The allegation made was this one :-
Regarding cpt-tech-dev.online, this domain was registered in April 2020 explicitly to serve as an internal development sandbox due to delays in internal IT processes at Champion Tech. The domain was openly registered with standard hosting services, at minimal cost, and utilized solely for internal DNS simplification and development purposes.
This domain never hosted proprietary or confidential information in any unauthorized manner, and I can confirm that it never hosted any files of Champion Tech in any form.
These details are clearly documented and verifiable through publicly available records, negating any claims of inappropriate or unauthorized use.
The total cost? £1.19
It was a development sandbox – and actually it was merely a cheap alias for ‘A’ DNS records so we wouldn’t have to remember 23.25.253..22 as “dev”, easier just to create dev.cpt-tech-dev.online as a little handy shortcut – because “Sam” ( not his real name, the systems manager – more about him in a future post) would either refuse to set up DNS records, or take about 9 years to do it, then do it wrong.
In Closing
While I understand that misunderstandings can occur, the evidence clearly demonstrates these domains were legitimate, authorized resources utilized during my employment.
It seems obvious that there was no real checking of these allegations before they were made, and if i were the CSP, I’d rightly be upset that the document saw the light of day.
Transparency remains my priority, and I am confident that facts, rather than speculation, speak clearly in this matter.
I do have a message for “Mark O” – until your next wildly inaccurate accusation – stay classy!
