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Originally Posted by herly33
Well if the DDOS attacks continue then more MTT's will be cancelled in the future. Put yourself in there position. If you ran a business that was getting hacked and the only way to prevent future attacks was to pay a ransom would you do it without any assurance that they won't just continue to do them and continue to ask for more money? It's a no win situation for both the players and the site.
Of course I wouldn't pay, but I wouldn't allow it to continue either, UNLESS it's a benefit to the company. There's no reason for them to allow these breaches to occur other than intentional purposes. Incompetence is not acceptable as any business would have invested in securing their servers due to the loss of profit. But again, that is if the "ddos" attacks are truly a loss a profit for them or not. Personally, I think canceling tournaments before registration has ended and forcing the influx of cash flow that deposited to generate 10% rake is more profitable than paying out overlays when GTD's don't get met, or are 50-75% met but only by a certain percentage of players who are known to hit and run and not generate rake after major tournaments or series. Naturally, you would think this would be suicide in any business because of the pr nightmare, right? Well, when you're one of two us companies offering online poker, what are your customers really going to do?
Open your eyes and realize that 1- securing servers and infrastructure from ddos attacks is not expensive and difficult for a company thats making profits and incompetence simply isn't a valid excuse for a business like this. 2- Covering overlays are expensive. 3 - ACR likely has databases with player deposit, win and withdrawal statistics that they may use to justify canceling tournaments for "whatever reason" 4 - they will enforce all the players who deposited for the MOSS tournament to generate at least 10% rake, and as DP has pointed out, more rake is better.