Disclaimer: First of all, I’m not a lawyer and I hold no responsibility for the actions of people who accept this as legal advice. It may or may not be legal, consult a gambling law attorney to make sure.
You know, I’ve never gone against any of my counterparts before, but all I hear in this thread is a bunch of whining and bitching about how “somebody else” should think of something to fix this. You want this shit to turn around? Too fucking bad, you don’t have the power. You want to do something about it to keep yourself in business? Look closely at EVERY clause in the new bill and do what an attorney would do, disect the shit out of it and put it into literal terms. Understand in COMPLETELY and THEN think of something that YOU (WE) can do to keep our business running. Don’t just sit there and bitch about some SOMEBODY ELSE needs to find the answer. Anybody who says this and just sits around waiting for it to happen is a piece of shit. However, those who say this, sit back, and CRITICALLY THINK about things in addition to knowing that others may spring up some ideas, you are the ones who will make it through this and be successful.
I am going to begin a new thread called something along the lines of “No bullshit brainstorm” both at CAP and at PAW. If you don’t have something to contribute and you are just going to bitch about things, then don’t post. Keep it to yourself. However, if you have something to contribute in terms of ideas that MIGHT ACTUALLY WORK, not saying that it has to (its a brainstorm after all), then post it.
My Bright Idea
I for one am going to STOP promoting gambling
(wink wink)
and am going to begin promoting the .net websites. You think that advertising .com’s is the only way to profit in this industry? Remember people, most .net websites are FREE and state right on them “this is not a gambling website” which clearly fits under the rules of this current legislation. HOWEVER, players may still convert from the .net to the .com. Finding a way to deposit is their problem and I’m not going to give them advice about how to deposit (since that would clearly be against the new law). Conversions will obviously be LOWER, but hey, its a hell of a lot better than sacrificing my entire business model over one stupid law that has a high chance of being stricken due to its controversial impact on our constitutional rights.
Also, for anybody that seriously cares, you can move your operation (and yourself) to Costa Rica. As long as Costa Rican laws remain as they are, and from what I’ve heard, they DO NOT extradite individuals who break laws from other countries.