Fergie wrote:
If it has been decided that the wire act doesn’t apply to online gambling, isn’t that a huge victory already?
It is huge. But since the FCC decided this not based on the gambling issue but based on the internet telephony issue, and since the FCC is not a very prominent agency, and since it is not in the interest of the DOJ to publicise this at all, it has been widely ignored.
But the fact remains that the internet and the telephone cannot be considered the same thing in the eyes of the federal communications commission, and that makes it law.