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Originally Posted by noekk
Isn't the DCMA only valid in the United States ?
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Sure... Do you remember why Neteller stopped doing Gambling transactions and why pretty much everyone else followed suit?
Well.. Let me refresh your memory if you aren't getting it...
One day Congress gave the President a bill. No... Not a bill he had to pay, a bill he had to sign... and he did. This bill made it illegal to process banking transactions for gambling web sites. Nobody gave a shit and everything went as usual until...
Years later the two guys that started Neteller decided to travel to Canada through the United States on their way to a conference for the electronic transaction industry. They ended up being charged with money laundering. Something that was only illegal to do in the US (by your context)...
Immediately after their arrest Neteller stopped processing transactions for US clients of gambling sites and not long after everyone else doing it followed suit.
So any company based outside the US that fails to adhere to US law might find its associates needing legal defense at the next Phoenix Forum. I can see it now actually... Everyone is in a packed conference room where Wired Guy is set to deliver the speech of all speeches on SEO, Chris Mallick is there to tell us why ePassporte got their VISA cards denied and Lensman is going to pick 1 lucky attendee at random to work for Playboy by remote! Who wouldn't want to attend that conference?
So as Steve makes his opening address to the crowd it is to inform nine people in the crowd that they can place anything in their hands on the floor, put their hands in the air and comply with the commands of the FBI agents there to escort them out.