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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
A good parallel here is to think of the on-line gambling industry - multibillion dollar industry and yet is illegal in most instances in the U.S.
Thus where are most on-line gambling businesses located? ... yep, off-shore!
The same could quite easily happen with much of the adult business; already it has to some extent - many U.S. based on-line adult companies (including some big ones) have long since off-loaded their domain name registrations, hosting, shoots, etc to off-shore entities.
Ron
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Agree Ron! Would also add the gambling if not necessarily offshore now - there are fair numbers "onshore" and being hosted in.. eg Europe with servers in the UK and other countries where there is no problem with gambling.
Currently several Vegas operations are/have established casinos in *favorable" countries such as the Gibraltar, UK etc.
Within the last six months the govt of Antigua won a WTO case against the US for "unfair trade practices" re gambling (tho the DOJ is attempting an appeal).
Bottom line is the US just shot itself in the foot again by restricting gambling (tho the may have their reasons) - other countries have taken up the slack and the tax revenues.