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I say this incident makes a very strong case for the very real world need of law, government, and regulation.

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There's sort of a free market in intarweb poker, if you ignore the fact that the most sopisticated, reputable gaming companies in the world are effectively excluded from the market due to government regulation.

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To this point, I feel compelled to say that back when the internet was "outlawed" for the most sophisticated and reputable gaming companies in the world, none of them were actually participating. In fact, they had pretty much missed the boat on the whole show. It was widely speculated that the first move to "outlaw" such activity in the US was in fact the first step toward the legalization and regulation of such activity so the companies and US Government could get their cut.

Once again, you have managed to bring something up that is completely tangent, but related, and managed to avoid addressing the content of the argument altogether.