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Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site
An anonymous reader writes "The Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade 'blockade' preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua's favor. The country now hopes to recoup some of the lost income through a WTO approved 'warez' site."
US didn't tell these companies they couldn't pay the gambling purveyors. Just that they couldn't pay them on behalf of US citizens placing bets with US bank accounts.
You seem to continue to side step the issue of the US having the right to control gambling within its borders. Yet you insist Antigua has the right to offer gambling services in foreign countries? I don't get the double standard. If the US offered betting services to French gamblers on french events via france's internet, in violation of french law, wouldn't you be among the first to condemn the US for violating French law?
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