Do you think free IP DB providers insert "fictitious entries" [1] to identify breach of TOS like this, similar to what happened between Google/Bing a few years ago [2]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

2: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/02/google.bing.sting/ind...

Do you really think he's going to answer that question?

yeah, especially because "[they] built the API in a few hours".

having hosers abuse your free geoip service listed off the first hit from google is nice but the data being provided can't just be "hacked together" :P.