Pokerstars vs. Tournament Results Tracking Sites

[JimmytheHat19]

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/art...t-ranking-sites

Is anyone else outraged by this? I just read this story on cardplayer.com earlier and I am very upset about it. It looks like Pokerstars is going to try and force the tourney tracking sites (sharkscope, officialpokerrankings) to STOP posting the financial info (ROI, total profit/loss) of players if they choose to opt out.

It looks like the the big uproar is over the "privacy" issue of players financial info. Thats a complete load of crap. Tournament results are a matter of public record. Let me say that again: TOURNAMENT RESULTS ARE A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD. If losing players are too sensitive about being looked up and told how donkish they are then maybe they shouldn't be playing poker online in the first place. I realize this isn't a good statement to make for winning players, but its the truth. The internet is about THE FREE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION and the fact is that tournament results are a matter of PUBLIC RECORD. Once these tracking sites gather the data, they obv sort through it and rank players and assign ROIs, etc. Its NOT a privacy issue... its just the simple facts.

To me, this really boils down to the fact that Pokerstars feels they are losing players because they are upset at being called donkeys. This in turn causes pokerstars to lose out on precious rake. Its all about the money baby. I guess the rich don't feel like they are rich enough.

I also don't see how/why the tracking sites would even begin to comply with Pstars "new policy". I mean, they dont REALLY have to, do they? There is no affiliation between them. It seems to me that the ONLY way Pstars can prevent tournament results from being tracked is if they don't display ANY tourney results whatsoever. Hell, I could write a program that imports, tracks, and sorts through tourney data and ranks players and profit/loss pretty easily. How would they stop me from doing that? Again, my whole big point here is that tournament results are a matter of public record and I just don't think that a few sensitive, upset little fishies and one giant poker site can do ANYTHING to stop the flow of free information online. The whole concept is as ludacris to me as the gov't trying to tell us we can't/shouldn't play poker online.