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Old 06-02-2006, 10:18 AM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by kosmic
does anyone remember content lotto?

and their series of games to win content and stuff?

is there company still around? or does anyone have a website or info on them?

the company is not around.

i own the domain now.

i was going to start it up again but after my lawyers looked into contest law in canada and the US they found out that you can't just randomally generate winners (like contentlotto and lottobuilder.com does) because it is not truely random.

It is possible to do but you must write a custom random number generator and test it on at least 1500 machines simultantiously. record the numbers to prove that it truely random (equal distribution when taking into account the margin of error).

didn't have time to do this but i did record the incomming hits when it was active so i know all the sites to contact to re start it when i do have the time.
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