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This doesn't make any sense. API requests are not proprietary.
It reads to me like: "this app does the same thing as our app therefore they must have copied our code; there is no other possible explanation". Cool story, bro. I hope the developers will fight back but that takes lots of money.
The article states this was a hobby of his and he won't be defending it as it would entail financial cost of mounting a legal defense.
There goes that rigged system again.