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It probably is a utopian fantasy that a regulator will act to stop poker cheats but I intend to do my best to make it happen and that includes forcing HEM and Pokertracker to have an API that stops them working at the same time as a site that bans them.
Also creating a scrapping software and database a baby project these days.
You can "take leading vendors out of the market" crippling majority of poker playing population. Meanwhile people like me will have home built database up and running in a week.
I am not programming genius, but free scrappers are possible to find on the web right now and building HM like software isn't big challenge either, especially if you just do it for your needs.
I wouldn't even need to bother for datamining myself, Russian friends from existing (despite opposition of poker sites) datamining sites will have the setup running very next morning after the ban is introduced. The difference will be that instead of HM authors making 100$ a piece dataminers will make a killing.
Also your legal framework, as elaborate as it can be won't make writing home project illegal. I mean c'mon, do you really think you can/should stop people from writing software to analyse text files in their own home ?
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'm a REC player and I don't like your ideas. You'll kill any incentive for the better players and you'll discourage REC players from becoming serious players.
Also this. Take chess for example. There is significant market for databases, training software, playing programs (engines). Why do you think that is ? Because top grandmaster pay for that to get an edge vs their competitiors ? That would be small market. Most customers for books/databases/playing programs/videos are amateur/recreational players willing to improve. Same is true for poker training sites, PT, HM, poker books etc. etc.
Humans like learning and improving. Existance of those things make it possible. The promise/possibility of improving attracts many recreational players as well.