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You also forgot to mention that both house leaders (Nancy & Harry) want online gambling banned. They are both beholden to gambling interests – Harry to Vegas and Nancy to the Indians!
after reading that article at the guardian, i’m not sure of the implications of this law.
if antigua can f*ck copyrights, which apparently it is in the position, how will the rest of the internet world react?
gambling is one thing, but there is loads of music, movies and software online that are far more expensive in turnover then gambling. in fact, gambling looks like a little dot comparing to those industries.
now im not sure, but if companies that specialize in distributing unlicensed software move to antigua…and all it takes is moving servers (which antigua has plenty of, after all the casinos moved out) this could be a super duper job for the online community.
meaning that the US govt is in double fuck situation. so i dont understand how this benefits the US. all those lawyers they pay and they give the right to antigua to become the online pirate heaven??? did somebody forget that this was an ONLINE ISSUE???
what a freaking dream come true! fuck casinos, they’ll make a lot more money this way!
santa coming early to antigua? :santa2:
splinterfree,
Ha ! You may be totally correct here. I was talking to a lawyer friend of mine last night, and one of his legal friends who has been following this case carefully, is already making plans to move to Antigua, and jump on this early, pending legal confirmation. The floodgates may very well open here.
I may decide to start:
MusicAffiliatePrograms.com
DVDAffiliatePrograms.com
PiratedSoftwareAffiliatePrograms.com
WhyPayRetailWhenUCanByFromMeInAntiguaAffiliatePrograms.com
ThankYouForBeingSuchAn*ssholeGeorgeBushAffiliatePrograms.comPoker Dude
haha…watch antiguatorrents.com become the most popular site :roflmao:
Horse Racing has virtually no lobby in the US, they spend a couple million a year compared to 10’s of millions by Indian Casinos and by Vegas.
Horse Racing’s ability to take bets online is not a national law. So not all US residents can bet only, only those who’s state’s regulation allow it. The ability to place a bet at a US horse track varies by what state you are in and what state the race is taking place in. The industry can do this because most state horse racing regulations allow “runners” to collect bets from betters and take them to bet window and place the bet. The ability to go across state lines was allowed via the “Safe Harbor to the 1961 Wire Act” that was given to horse racing in the 1970s. The Safe Harbor was designed to help the industry by allowing Simulcast betting, that is someone at Calder in Miami could place a bet at Santa Anita in LA.
This safe harbor didn’t specify that they could take bets across state lines, it specified that they could transmit information and bets between tracks. That combined with the “Runner” laws in most horse racing states left a Loophole that has allowed online horsebooks to take bets over the phone and internet, across state lines.
While i’m sure horse racing’s lobby was very involved in the 1970’s safe harbor, it wasn’t about internet betting (as you would expect back in 1979, it was about alllowing enough races to be bet to keep local tracks from shutting down.
Finally, the US horse racing industry will not take a bet from countries that don’t allow their citizens to place bets online. So, US racing books don’t take Japanese residents, for example, but they might offer Japanese races to US bettors. This is way different than online casinos/poker from Antigua.
The horseracing industry is in disarray, they have no strong lobbying effort, they have virtually no money to spend on lobbying and basically there is a big competition between Magna Entertainment, Churchill Downs, YouBet and AmericaTab over who is going to be the internet and cable tv leaders. They also have no idea of how to market online.
