Ok...I understand everything but the ISP issue

[Jussurreal]

I understand whats going on with the payment part of the legislation. What I don't understand at all is the ISP part. In 9 months, will Americans not be able to access gambling sites at all? This is really the most important question.

[5thStreetHog]

My thoughts exactly ,alot of regurgitated talk about cashing in and out.That is important ,but my biggest and worry is government bulldogging ISP`s to block every poker site period.It seems unclear in the bill.This worries me,if that does happen then the real dancing begins.

[Jussurreal]

bump....any people with an idea out there?

[hedxcold]

ISPs cannot host anything online gambling related. if they are, they do not have to do anything about it until it is brought to their attention by the government.

[Jussurreal]

so when the government says "AOL you now have to block your gambling sites" then thats it? its all over?

[Jussurreal]

BTW here is the part that talks about ISP's:


The Act provides for limited civil remedies against “interactive computer services.” An Internet service provider can be ordered to remove sites and block hyperlinks to sites that are transmitting money to unlawful gambling sites. ISPs are under no obligation to monitor whether its patrons are sending funds to payment processors or even directly to gambling sites. But once it receives notice from an U.S. Attorney or state Attorney General, the ISP can be forced to appear at a hearing to be ordered to sever its links.

But the statute has an interesting requirement: The site must “reside on a computer server that such service controls or operates.” This would limit the reach of this statute to payment processors, affiliates and search engines that are housed on that particular ISP. The same problem of going after foreign operators and payment processors affects this section. Foreign ISPs are difficult to serve and not necessarily subject to federal court injunctions.

[mrkilla]

this is very simple to understand
even if this "block" from US sites goes into effect (it pretty much can't)
You could just use an off shore proxy to access

[Auren]

If ISP:s are blocked I guess that will give lot more customers for different kind of proxys to handle that problem.

[hedxcold]

they will not tell AOL to block any site. if any site does blocking it will be Party or 888 or whoever from their end.

they can tell AOL not to HOST anything on their servers.

[CORed]

it's simple. The internet is a series of tube. ISP's are required to kink every tube that leads to a gambling site.