Question about Washington Law

davebwell · #1 07-30-2006, 01:20 AM

I saw a trip report about a players Day 1 at the WSOP Main Event. He said the WSOP is not allowing clothing with .com logos on it.

Does any of this have top do with ESPN being able to televise the event in Washington state where it is now illegal to advertise online gaming sites.

Uglyowl · #2 07-30-2006, 10:38 AM

I would think it has to do completely with the fact it is on TV. If someone is walking around a general casino setting with .com apparel on no one would say anything.

Overdrive · #3 07-30-2006, 10:45 AM

Yes, even on all the WSOP tables that Party has sponsered they have Party Poker.net not Party Poker.com. No dot coms allowed. Yet.

john moon · #4 07-30-2006, 11:45 AM

I hear advertisements for .COM sites on XM and Sirius Radio all the time. Are they breaking the Washington Law? I do not think that they change their programming or signal just for Washington State.

Trouthunter · #5 07-30-2006, 12:07 PM

They were doing this before the Washington law. It has to do with federal regulations, not specific state legislation. XM and Sirius are not as regulated by the FCC, which also means they can broadcast Stern and Opie and Anthony with all the cursing.

IIRC there was some serious litigation at the federal level over this. I think one of the sports magazines got in some hot water for advertising a .com site. I'm not at work now, so I can't look it up, but the end result was a huge fine and no more advertising of .coms. Now all the media insists on advertising .net sites.

ZPinhead · #6 07-30-2006, 01:47 PM

If you watch any of the old WPT in Aruba tournys, you'll notice that on the table it says Ultimatebet.com and they have blurred it out in post production. In the most recent one they changed it to .Net It's all about some things that happened with the FCC several years ago and not related to the WA stuff.