Originally <a href='/showthread.php?p=17043422'>posted</a> on 12/07/2012:

Justin's solution is fair. SBR doesn't seem to realize they're killing the goose. The golden eggs weren't enough. Now the players that made them what they are have become second class citizens. To regain credibility:

1) downgrade 5D to B+ for not paying
2) downgrade 5D to B- for threatening a player
3) downgrade 1 can be undone by paying the player, in accordance with Justin's rule. For making Tony (and all sponsoring books) believe he could get away with this, SBR agrees to pay half.
4) downgrade 2 can be undone through a public apology.

Everybody wins. The player gets his money, and 5D and SBR improve credibility.

I understand that SBR is in a place where they don't want anyone to rock their boat. But that's what they were about. Rocking the boat. And books went along with it, didn't they? So why stop? Players still have plenty of power to demand that SBR return to its roots. What if the players opened new accounts with all these books, unrelated to SBR?