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Kentucky Judge Upholds State's Gambling-Domain Grab

Posted by timothy on from the always-think-forfeiture dept.

JohnHegarty writes "A Kentucky judge has upheld that state's seizure of some of the world's most popular online casino domain names, ruling they constitute a 'gambling device' that is subject to Kentucky's anti-gambling laws." Wasn't it surreal enough on the first round?

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  1. There will be a time by mapkinase · · Score: 0, Troll

    The time will come when the evil of gambling will be prohibited world-wide in a centralized manner, but right now the attempts to fight internet gambling on the scale of Kentukky look heroic, but naive at best.

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