Oh, as a side note, this is the only time I've ever screwed over a deal I made with a snitch. Once the promise of information in exchange for amnesty is made, you're safe. Players only enter the "witness protection program" if they end up outing themselves in the process of providing the promised info. After they enter the program, it's up to them to keep quiet about it - if you end up with everyone knowing who you are after the name change because you were too overt with your actions, you're on your own. There's no such thing as a second protection assignment, unless you have more to offer.
This tactic gets used on blue far more than on Red, simply because I'm more interested in the Blue RMT market than the Red one (make no mistake, red still gets tracked, but when blue pushes 100x the net dollar amount through the system in any given month... they become the more important target). But Sektors is definitely not the first person to provide major community-breaking information in exchange for account protection during the subsequent ban wave. I don't want to give the impression it's standard procedure to break an agreement made in exchange for information or other services to help track "priority violaters" (IE: rmt occurring in a guilds leadership, TPP distributors, RMT kingpin or ring information, etc.)
The only reason it happened to Sektor was because he drew the ire of another staff member who came to me requesting we expidite the one-two Sektor_azrael/nizzar_nihilum RMT punch, and in the haste to get everything wrapped and on the table, his amnesty was forgotten for months.
Oh, and the icing to this entire fiasco is that the person who snitched to cause the Sektor RMT bans that came before the Nizzar RMT ones was.... Nizzar. I <3 you guys.
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