I agree in the past we have witnessed a few arrests. Why was the wire act used? this act dates back to 1961 to stop over the telelphone sports betting amoung other things. Aiding and abetting means exactly that. To aid someone to place a wager, the people arrested were doing just that.
The wire act develpoed in 1961 was a law desisgned to curb mobsters from seducing the American public from sports betting. No where in the wire act does it make reference to casinos.
We webmasters operate on a different medium that being the Internet, is this in the wire act? Say if it was are we aiding and abetting? I am not doing the things the wire act was originally designed for. In addition the wire act does make make any reference to the Internet.
Some more common sense is the U.S both at the federal and state level have been battling over this for years. An individual who powers up the computer and lands on a online gambling site. Regardless of whether on purpose or by accident would this be aiding and abetting? Would a webmaster be held accountable? Did the webmaster receive monies directly from the visitor? did the webmaster aid in the casual surfer in finding my site?
Find me just one law pertaining what online gambling webmasters do is illegal.
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