Judges Rejects Gambling Group's Attempt To Toss Out Anti-Online Gambling Law
from the keep-trying dept
A group calling itself the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association has failed in its attempt to get a judge to throw out Congress' law designed to ban online gambling. While the judge did note that the group has standing to bring this suit (which was an open question), she did not find their case compelling at all. She basically said that Congress passed the law legally and it wasn't a violation of the Constitution. The group is planning to appeal, but it still seems like a more likely path towards getting such a law overturned is to convince Congress that it made a mistake.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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That being said, the current law should be thrown out, as it is a direct violation of international trade law. In trying to defend the ban at the time, a Republican stated that "It cannot be allowed to stand that another nation can impose its values on the U.S. and make it a trade issue." Of course, this is occurring at the same time the U.S. is trying to force its copyright and patent terms down the throats of any developing country looking for entry into the WTO. It's hypocritical, plain and simple.
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Send the judge back to school
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The government can't make money from something so they make it illegal.
The US is either for or against gambling. They can't ban gambling online overseas but allow it in other forms.
Jake what on earth are you on about? "I'm not sure it IS a mistake, personally; something tells me that the kind of person who prefers to play poker over the Internet instead of face-to-face is either not very good at it or out to make some poor sucker lose his shirt,"
Jake did you approve this law? Haha.
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These aren't FPS or RTS games we're talking about here, where latency matters and some important things have to be done client-side. Any gambling game could be done completely server-side, with the client doing nothing more than displaying the results, and thus negating the possibility of any sort of client-side trainer/cheat/hack.
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The point is that our govt. has not allowed Internet gambling other countries believe that gambling is gambling and it is wrong for us to not allow it.
Personally I don't think we should allow foreign countries to dictate what we allow. Is govt. paid healthcare a advantage to foreign companies? Of course, should there be a penalty to those companies?
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