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Here is an interesting article:
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050412-113309-5734r.htm
One excerpt:
“The United States is a powerful and large country and every few years the U.S. Department of Justice got all up in arms about Internet gambling,” said Ayre, a Canadian national. “They would send out letters threatening repercussions if magazines and others took advertising dollars from overseas gaming. That was a method to stop Internet gambling without creating a legal precedent, but it proved to be a hollow threat.”
I just read this article yesterday while surfing around, what a coinkidink!
Thanks for sharing this. :hithead:proved to be a hollow threat
obviously doesn’t advertise on any major PPC.
That was a method to stop Internet gambling without creating a legal precedent, but it proved to be a hollow threat.”
Hasn’t stopped internet gambling though by a long shot.
They will need a legal precedent to try to do that, and then it will be like prohibition. People will do it anyway, but then it will be governed by a criminal element instead of creating tax revenues for governments.
well I agree it didn’t stop OG. But I don’t think you can call it exactly a “hollow threat” when it has certainly shut down what would otherwise be a big time income for anybody like yahoo or google etc.
when you’re shut down from getting …. what was overture at back right before shutting down? something like $50 a click?
thats some serious change being dropped, imho.
thus the reason I challenged the wording.
Interesting to note what is going on in the UK with what looks like online gambling being made legal there.
I think most countries will realize that people are going to do it anyway so they might as well tax it… hey have you ever known a government that wants to miss out on tax… besides that, the cost of policing any online activity beyound international borders would be less than cost effective to say the least.
Who is the government protecting anyway?
Roo wrote:Interesting to note what is going on in the UK with what looks like online gambling being made legal there.I think most countries will realize that people are going to do it anyway so they might as well tax it… hey have you ever known a government that wants to miss out on tax… besides that, the cost of policing any online activity beyound international borders would be less than cost effective to say the least.
Who is the government protecting anyway?
The fat cats in Vegas, Atlantic City and the Indian reserves that grease
our “public servants”, that’s who.
Useful artice
This is interesting to anyone who wants to set up a skill gaming site:
Quote:“What we found when we started researching the market was that women 35 and older would be the audience,” said Rovello, who has a technical and marketing background. “That turned out to be correct. Online Mahjong and traditional Solitaire are our biggest games.”
