ok if you want to talk about the business side of things, and get into skins etc....merge is a very shady site when dealing with affiliates etc....if you want to learn more about just this check out the forums @
http://www.pokeraffiliatelistings.com and do some research.
in regards to LOCK, again i suggest you check out the forums on PAL.... apparently lock/BCP/etc = Merge
if you want to talk about game security/integrity, where do i begin?
first of all, there is ZERO internal security....other than a few basic ways of automatically flagging accounts for their own fraud prevention purposes, there is NOTHING being done to make the games secure. nothing. ...if nobody reports it, then nothing is done about it.
there is a huge issue with collusion and feeders on merge.......mostly in MTTs. nothing new here, I just think people have forgetten how damaging this type of cheating can be in the smaller fields found on networks like merge.