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genesisgkh33
10-22-2006, 11:40 PM
Tired of people posting becuase party poker or neteller or sunpoker leaves the US that online poker will be gone soon. Stop it! The US is wrong on this. It's a trade violation and the world knows it. You cannot ban online gaming based on morality but keep horse race betting and lotteries. The concern here is the joke we have become throughout the world. We use the WTO to enforce our copyright laws but ignore rulings against us. The problem was poker had no money to get to congress. Wait until hollywood finds out the WTO grants countries the right to pirate our DVDs and CDs legally in Antigua and Costa Rica because we don't allow them to promote gaming sites in our country. Money will flow to congress. The online landscape is changing, but it is NOT leaving.
ChexNFX
10-23-2006, 12:04 AM
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meleader2
10-23-2006, 12:18 AM
It's over.
TOPTWO
10-23-2006, 12:23 AM
hoorah hoorah for the confederacy!
ojsdaman
10-23-2006, 12:28 AM
its over and your post is lame
Lego05
10-23-2006, 02:09 AM
I don't think it's over, but Antigua is to small for the U.S. to care about sanctions from them.

I just hope another e-wallet steps in for neteller and then we're set with that and stars/full tilt.
RikaKazak
10-23-2006, 02:16 AM
I would love to buy pirated software...I hope they allow it, I would buy EVERYTHING I could, then hopefully it'll change back, poker legal, cd's illegal, but won't matter cause we'll have it all /images/graemlins/laugh.gif
DuderinoAB
10-23-2006, 02:25 AM
Years from now a young child named Eric Cartman will re-enact this whole thing, and our side will win...until we run out of s'more schnopps.
Lego05
10-23-2006, 02:28 AM
I just saw thjat episode a week or so ago and otherwise I may not have any idea what you were talking about. Anyway though I don't want to wait 140 years for a reenactment gone wrong.
KEW
10-23-2006, 02:28 AM
All I can think about now is Belusie in Animal House...
j2zooted
10-23-2006, 02:37 AM
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All I can think about now is Belusie in Animal House...

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was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbour?
c5Nfold
10-23-2006, 02:58 AM
German's bombed pearl harbor????
absoludicrous
10-23-2006, 03:06 AM
What about the Mexicans in East LA selling $5 pirated DVDs out of their cars on curbsides, next to rolling taco trucks?
TimTimSalabim
10-23-2006, 03:29 AM
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German's bombed pearl harbor????

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Forget it, he's on a roll.
Synergistic Explosions
10-23-2006, 03:52 AM
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German's bombed pearl harbor????

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So the Germans borrowed the Japanese aircraft for the day?

Brilliant!
j2zooted
10-23-2006, 04:10 AM
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German's bombed pearl harbor????

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So the Germans borrowed the Japanese aircraft for the day?

Brilliant!

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im guessing that you (a) are not american, or (b) actually went to class in college
vituzzo
10-23-2006, 05:14 AM
was it over when the germans bombed pearl harbour?

this statement was used in the movie animal house when they tried to shut down the faternity. /images/graemlins/cool.gif
jojo11
10-23-2006, 05:55 AM
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its over and your post is lame

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extremely lame
Nikoms
10-23-2006, 09:06 AM
It's far from over. For those not paying attention, the doomsday predictors, pessimists, etc. The new bill did NOT EVEN CHANGE THE LAW : Read this (http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_law/article/1446) article by a LAWYER (please note: not an opinion by a paranoid sports bettor).

The fact is, as many lawyers have explained, that the only thing the bill did was make a little more difficult to deposit to online gambling sites, mainly because many poker sites are affiliated with/linked to either online casino's (on which the law is still unclear) or online sports books (which are clearly illegal in the U.S. according to the Wire Actof 1961 as outlined in the article above).

I am not a lawyer. But when it comes to matters of the law, I take what a lawyer says with much higher regard than what others may opine regarding the subject at hand.

I would suggest that if Party and Paradise had not overreacted, that this practically would have gone virtually unoticed by many. Is it possible that this will make onlinepoker more diffucult in the near future? Certainly - but only in so far as the new law is enforced AS IT PERTAINS TO POKER. It is not, nor has it ever been, at least in terms of prosecutionary practice, illegal to play poker online (i.e. no one has been prosecuted by the Attorney General for playing poker online...ever.) Those of you who took U.S. gov't class hopefully remember: Legislature makes, Judiciary interprets - the judiciary has never interpreted the Wire Act of 1961 as applicable to online poker. Sports betting? Yes. Poker? No. Incidentally, it appears that Party & Paradise have decided to act as judiciary - and haveseemingly done a poor job.