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party poker is already banning people who use software that isn't nearly as dangerous. I cant imagine these multimillion dollar companies being unable to detect if a bot is playing. We already know that there have been some discussions about party actually being able to see what programs are running on your computer while you are playing, so a bot would be easy to detect.

I am sure there will be people who will be smart enough to avoid detection, but once a particular program was mass produced the major poker sites would figure out a way to detect it. Yes, they would probably be a step behind, but by the time a few thousand people had the program they would figure out a way to stop its use.

Lets remember that most players play online poker for fun and wouldnt want to risk getting banned if they got caught. And some players actually have ethics (as noted by the online poker tax discussions).

I think the problem with bots are far narrower and don't threaten the entire industry.