I believe, if you read the soap opra, that the initial idea was that the spider was to include the cost for the poseidon stack. If Elbox/C.H. could have come to terms on that, all of this would have been avoided.
However, they couldn't come to terms on such. Right now, no one wins--Not Elbox, not Chris, and certainly not the users. At this point, I don't know if there is a way to mediate the situation (no pun intended). This is worsened by pirates posting "how to crack poseidon" and some of the other dubious activites floating around.