US to be fined $100 billion for illegal ban on gambling
 

http://www.sys-con.com/read/435237.htm

Interesting... cheers to that

do you think the USA will pay it ?

LOL

This is just one of a few fronts that we in the online poker community are hoping will weaken the UIGEA...however we have such an arrogant administration who is hell bent on showing the rest of the world that we are above every law / rule of every organization we are charter members of...that hope is relatively small.

yeah, right :)

Critical reading skills required:

Could. Not is. That is called sabre rattling.

I'll believe it, when I see it

That would make my day

Well the jist of it is this...if the US does not comply...part of the penalties allows Antigua to violate copyright law and mass reproduce CD's and DVD's to recuperate costs...this has Hollywood and the music industry a little worried...so while the US Gub may not foot the bill...someone definitely will.

As much as I'd love to see this become reality... Not gonna happen.

Sad and true... like a lot of the current regime. :helpme

The problem is with their "solution," the Barney Frank bill...it won't get passed due to certain language problems in the bill.

In fact, the Poker Players Alliance is actively working to get Frank to drop this bill, and to support another due to this fact...but ego will most likely prevail.

Join the PPA and help get the UIGEA repealed.
https://pokerplayersalliance.org/index.php

plenty of info about antigua vs us on there as well.

sum na na

It probably extends further than Antigua - Canada, the UK and a couple of other countries also supported the action re restrictive trading practices.

This crap has been going on for... around 6 years now. The World Trade Organization originally ruled in favor of Antigua years ago. The US government then claimed they had complied with the ruling. The WTO then ruled that this "compliance" was in effect, smart-assed and was not in compliance with the earlier ruling. The legal/remedy time has run out and there is still no compliance - so, next is penalties/sanction possibilities.

Doubt any nation will violate eg copyright law, but prob more inclined to adopt an "attitude with meaning and effect" until the US government does comply. It's ironic that the same government is whining to the WTO about China when it can't even comply with the treaty itself.

One can dream I suppose

Arent americans free enough to have a gamble?

I though america was a free place?

Can americans have a wank? or will they be PUNISHED!!!!

the casinos that lobbied so hard for it,should come up with the money.

true and the rest should be footed by the people they paid off:winkwink:

Just another day in the Oval Office.

There's still poker for US players at Full Tilt thanks to Epass. :X

Exactly .. :thumbsup








*time to get into gambling* :pimp

Didn't you guys know - here in America we are not free to do what we want with our money once we've paid tax on it.

Home of the free I think not.

Thank God there are still lots of Internet poker rooms we can play at:

http://www.poker-for-americans.com

I love my poker and think this law is retarded!

sig spot

http://www.amateur-hotshots.com/www/en/index.html

What is really funny to me is all those americans with their "live free or die" getting it up the ass and being told "you can't gamble", "you can't have an adult book store" and so on.

"live free or die" indeed.

I think George Carlin said it best regarding what freedoms Americans really do have... We are free to choose between paper or plastic. :1orglaugh

Yet another reason not to pay taxes! :)


Why stop with overturning the internet ban? Why not continue on to take the monopoly of gambling away from state-funded and run lotteries and licensed casinos. A slot machine at every corner store, an OTB in every town and a numbers racket in every basement. Thats what I say.

There's a president somewhere that needs to be impeached.

I am on gambling!!!!!!!!!

Heck, Bush would go get their oil:1orglaugh

:2 cents:

USA=WTO
WTO=USA

Other countries consider such ban on internet gambling, like Norway.