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Originally Posted by spadebidder
I get your other points, but I'm confused by these. The court documents required Tokwiro to sever all ties with 88 current or former employees IIRC, and to make sure they had no further connection of any kind to the company and no access to anything. Also, Tokwiro sued for $81 million dollars and settled for $15 million, paid by the former seller of the company, plus about another $6 million that had already been refunded to players. All this is in official documents of the Superior Court of Ontario. And the court hired their own independent software auditor to review all the source code, databases, everything. Nothing dubious about that. I'm not defending UB, I just want to know the real facts so I went to the source. What did I miss?
To be honest, I stopped following the UB drama many months ago. It could be that what you've read in official court documents is true, although when there's this much money and corruption surrounding a case, the fact that they're statements from official court documents only gives them slightly more credibility than they'd have if they were press releases from the companies involved. In UB's case, I think most players who followed it closely tend to have a knee-jerk reaction to anyone who seems to be defending them as vigorously as you did in your post. I do, at least, although I usually don't bother posting about it.
UB and AP damaged not just their own reputations, but that of online poker in general. Their actions, statements, and behavior during and after their respective scandals were disappointing, to put it mildly. Major crimes were committed and no one has ever answered for them. It doesn't look like anyone ever will, and that makes players wonder if there is any jurisdiction in the world that has their back.
UB and AP do not deserve your defense, even when you're doing it as part of a response to yet another rigged theory.
That's just my opinion, of course.