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So gambling is OK as long as it fills their coffers and at odds that would get any casino run out of town in Vegas. I wouldn't be surprised if the odds were more in your favor at a rigged poker game than at the Minnesota state lottery. Any argument against out-of-state gambling they could make would be hypocritical at best since Joe Sixpack could just as easily blow his paycheck on lotto tickets as he could on Online poker.

Now Utah is pretty cut-and-dried on the subject and I would not criticize them for being hypocritical if they were trying to do this. Of course, by their definition I could make an argument that participating in a 401K plan violates this statute. It seems a lot of people would be no worse off now had they put all their 401K funds into lotto tickets. But I digress...

Yes. Pay no attention to the URL or the fact that you can buy lotto tickets in Utah. Move along...

?How can the US be slammed for protectionism when we don't let anyone in the US to do online gambling?

As it has been repeatedly stated it is legal to gamble online, not all types of gambling are illegal. See Gambling Law US.

This also touches on broader "moral issues". If a country doesn't want something to come in because it objects on moral grounds, who is another country to sue about it? It's like Columbia complaining to the WTO that we ban cocaine.

If you had RTFA you would of read, I know this is /. but if people actually read the articles linked to they may learn something, where the admin had tried this tactic but the WTO ruled otherwise: The ruling said that the US had a right to ban online gambling, but sided with Antigua in noting the US was allowing online horse race betting. Horse race betting is gambling so the US does allow online gambling.

we banned ALL online gambling, not just overseas gambling.

Wrong, not all online gambling is illegal. Some online gambling such as horse racing is legal. Here is more on online gambling.

we banned ALL online gambling, not just overseas gambling.

Wrong, not all online gambling is illegal. Some online gambling such as horse racing is legal. Here is more on online gambling.

Nice, I did not know that California says poker is a skill. Can you tell me where I can look this up?

It's perfectly legal to play poker in the US, even for money. The only time you may run afoul of the law is if the house collects money from the players or rakes the pot.

"Dear pedantic Slashbots: If cable theft is stealing, why is MP3 downloading "infringement?""

Because (at least for USians) that's what the law says.

Theft of 'telecommunications services', such as cable, are defined and punished under USC Title 47, Chapter 5, Subchapter V-A, Part IV, Sec. 553. That section can be found here.

USC Title 17, Chapter 5 covers copyright infringement, which is an entirely different animal. You may view this section of the USC here.

If reading legalize hurts your head (as it does mine), then try reading here instead. That link leads to a far easier-to-digest version of the laws in play.

If you live in a foreign country where copyright infringement equals theft, then please let us all know where this enlightened utopia is. If you live in the US, then your sig is nothing more than the butt-end of a joke played upon the American public by a group of criminals running a group of corrupt organizations (as defined under Federal RICO statues) which should have been shut down years ago, with their board members imprisoned for their crimes.

I find it amusing that so many voice their support for the rule of law by defending a group of companies and individuals (whose collective criminal activities over the past 50 some-odd years could result in massive (as in Trillions) government-imposed fines and a slew of life sentences (for execs)) from small children and teenagers who, at worst, are commiting a civil offense.

Please change your sig.