Titel SharkScope Ban Reconsidered (Update) Autor/Erfasser externe Quelle System powered by HELP.ch

PokerStars has second thoughts after player appeals
 
Barely a week after announcing a ban on players using the poker information database 
SharkScope (see previous Online-Casinos.com/InfoPowa reports) the management at 
PokerStars appears to have reconsidered its decision following appeals by its players.
 
In a new statement this week, PokerStars noted:
 
“We understand that players have expressed concerns regarding our recent detection 
methods, and we recognize that we made a mistake. Consequently, we will explain the 
error, and correct it.
 
“We detected players who visited the SharkScope website by having the PokerStars Client 
monitor active network connections using built in Windows functions for that purpose.  
The data returned by this function is similar to that which is returned by the Windows 
accessory called ‘Netstat‘.  A periodic query to Windows determined whether the 
SharkScope IP was being accessed. This was a YES/NO query, purely regarding access to 
the specific SharkScope IP address.  If a connection to the SharkScope IP was detected, 
this fact and only this fact was sent back to the PokerStars server.  We then sent 
warning emails to players who had accessed SharkScope in conjunction with the PokerStars 
Client.”
 
“This technique ensured that players accessing the SharkScope website were detected 
without breaching their right to privacy. At no stage was a player’s internet browsing 
history ever queried, or transmitted from the PokerStars Client to the PokerStars 
Server.”
 
The popular website has therefore decided that Sharkscope will remain a prohibited 
service, but only while players are actually involved in a game.