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Pshaw…
The government will have an extremely hard time making their case. If you are only promoting casinos, I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Sports betting – I’d be a bit more worried, since this is considered illegal by means of the Wire Act.
Spear, it’s good to hear that you’re positive about it… but if they do decide to crack down, could someone like me who has tons of traffic and promoting it harder than most webmasters go to jail for doing it?
I just feel like I am at huge risk right now… although I do not do sports betting, just casinos.
No one has gone to jail because of promoting casinos.
Providers of payment methods have been hassled and gave in.
Large landbased advertising venues have been hassled.
Missouri has made millions from paypal and would like to make some more.
Please look in the legal section of this board for more info.
Also, here is a law website woith updates on gambling law, which also represents the other marketing interests you have:
Let me put it this way, Danny –
If something serious really does go down, I will be one of the first to fall and everyone in the industry will know it. My servers are located in Florida and I am an American.
Having said that – I am not worried in the slightest, because I know they can’t do much.
I’ve been of the opinion that if the government were going to crack down on people advertising gambling online, they’d hit the people we buy the advertising from first–Google, Overture, etc.
I’ve been of the opinion that if the government were going to crack down on people advertising gambling online, they’d hit the people we buy the advertising from first–Google, Overture, etc.
That is my opinion too.
Politically, going after small business that brings revenue to the States via taxes is a bad idea. Plus, if they grabbed you and Spear and me tomorrow, dozens would fill our shoes. It makes no sense.
Taking away our ways to advertise is much more effective and politically more justifiable.
The current US situation on internet gambling very much reflects Australia a couple of years ago.
It seems based on political tradeoffs and a vision of lost revenue.
The net is ether in nature and a hard entity to “control”. Gambling revenue, whether by lottery. casinos etc., generates huge amounts of moolah to any government.
In Australia, the first target was porn. No Australian can view porn on the net and any porn sites found to be hosted on Aussie servers faced fines the size of a third world country annual budget.
Ummm…that was rediculous. It cost millions for a board of complaint to be set up and administered and I think there were three valid complaints in three years that were or were not prosecuted.
Meanwhile anyone here could type http://www.hotblondesonheat or whatever into a browser….
Then came gambling. The first draft detailed anyone promoting onlinegambling to any degree could face up to a 200k AUD fine per day. Residing in, or out of the country.
The only gambling allowed was, and is, TAB government run gambling.
We cannot look at porn nor gamble. Fortunately, there are loopholes.
Look for the holes and you will find the fish.
I recently fell victim to this last weekend when my webhost account was suspended without warning…..
Apparently the company is located in Michigan which is very strict about ther gambling laws. And apparently since I support gambling they did not want me on their servers
Damn the First Amendment!
hehe
thanks everyone… I was under the same assumption with the search engines and think that is where things will start.
