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If a law is so silly that it makes criminals out of millions of regular people, you expect it to be changed, not enforced. Several European countries where onli
by tybris 16y ago
If a law is so silly that it makes criminals out of millions of regular people, you expect it to be changed, not enforced. Several European countries where online poker became popular are legalizing it.
- RuadhanMc 16y agoIt looks like Congress did look at changing the law in 2010, not sure what happened to this, NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/us/politics/29gamble.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/us/politics/29gamble.html Banning online gambling doesn't really make sense if you still permit gambling at a state level, so I think this law is probably going to be toast in the long run.
- pyre 16y agoBanning online gambling is essentially protectionism of the state-level gambling industries. A number of countries and WTO denounced the US a number of years ago for this policy, but the US just ignores WTO when it's convenient and uses it as a hammer against other countries when it is convenient.
- eru 16y agoIf only that reasoning applied to file sharing.