Posted:
#1
The ongoing dispute between Boss Media and PokerTrillion has reached a new level.
PokerTrillion has been hitting a number of poker news sites with the news that a judge in Malta has ordered Boss Media to turn over all of their Malta-based servers to PokerTrillion within 30 days.
Wow. If this is true, it is a bombshell. Boss Media's Malta operations include their IPN (International Poker Network) servers, which means that licensees such as VirginPoker and 24hPoker could be offline within a month.
At the moment, there is no reason to doubt the story, although PokerTrillion has made statements in the past that were less than 100% truthful - including a statement back in April that Boss Media's bank accounts were frozen. That statement was proven false.
Boss Media has posted their own statement on their website. It is interesting to note that while Boss is claiming that PokerTrillion's statement is "reckless" and "without merit", nowhere in the statement does it dispute PokerTrillion's central claim that Boss Media's servers have been ordered to be siezed.
Interesting.
Instead, Boss states that "player funds are not affected by the current proceedings" and that "In the extremely unlikely event that any Malta operations would be affected, Boss Media have high-performance back-up systems in place to ensure continued service to all our customers and their players."
That kind of sounds like a back-handed confirmation that there was some sort of Maltese ruling against Boss Media.
For those unaware, Boss dumped PokerTrillion from the network earlier this year due to "rake back violations". Rather than take the matter sitting down, PokerTrillion decided to sue.
For a while, it seemed like a fairly cut-and-dried matter of sour grapes, but this recent ruling tends to support PokerTrillion's position and makes me wonder if maybe there is something wrong with the way PokerTrillion was treated.
Anyway, as Boss Media is saying, there doesn't seem to be an immediate need to scamper away from IPN sites, as a company the size of Boss surely has an infrastructure robust enough to keep the sites running during this mess.
But it kinda makes you wonder a bit, doesn't it?
PokerTrillion has been hitting a number of poker news sites with the news that a judge in Malta has ordered Boss Media to turn over all of their Malta-based servers to PokerTrillion within 30 days.
Wow. If this is true, it is a bombshell. Boss Media's Malta operations include their IPN (International Poker Network) servers, which means that licensees such as VirginPoker and 24hPoker could be offline within a month.
At the moment, there is no reason to doubt the story, although PokerTrillion has made statements in the past that were less than 100% truthful - including a statement back in April that Boss Media's bank accounts were frozen. That statement was proven false.
Boss Media has posted their own statement on their website. It is interesting to note that while Boss is claiming that PokerTrillion's statement is "reckless" and "without merit", nowhere in the statement does it dispute PokerTrillion's central claim that Boss Media's servers have been ordered to be siezed.
Interesting.
Instead, Boss states that "player funds are not affected by the current proceedings" and that "In the extremely unlikely event that any Malta operations would be affected, Boss Media have high-performance back-up systems in place to ensure continued service to all our customers and their players."
That kind of sounds like a back-handed confirmation that there was some sort of Maltese ruling against Boss Media.
For those unaware, Boss dumped PokerTrillion from the network earlier this year due to "rake back violations". Rather than take the matter sitting down, PokerTrillion decided to sue.
For a while, it seemed like a fairly cut-and-dried matter of sour grapes, but this recent ruling tends to support PokerTrillion's position and makes me wonder if maybe there is something wrong with the way PokerTrillion was treated.
Anyway, as Boss Media is saying, there doesn't seem to be an immediate need to scamper away from IPN sites, as a company the size of Boss surely has an infrastructure robust enough to keep the sites running during this mess.
But it kinda makes you wonder a bit, doesn't it?
0
Hot Forum Topics
