Circletimessquare wrote "Well then relocate your servers to Antigua."
But it's not that simple. The US government asserts that its laws apply everywhere in the world. They arrest people associated with gambling businesses, and even people associated with businesses associated with gambling.
Google John Carruthers, Peter Dicks, Stephen Lawrence, John LeFebvre.
And all were arrested under (twisted interpretations of) pre-UIGEA law. Under UIGEA, not only could anybody associated with Second Life be arrested anytime they came within the control of the US (including emergency landings of planes never expected to enter the US, or extradition or outright kidnapping from a foreign country), but anyone who did business with Second Life would fall under the "aiding or abetting" provisions of the UIGEA and be subject to similar mistreatment.
Second Life's choices were to abandon the US entirely (servers, customers, and suppliers) or attempt to comply with the ever-changing US anti-gambling laws.
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Circletimessquare wrote "Well then relocate your servers to Antigua."
But it's not that simple. The US government asserts that its laws apply everywhere in the world.
They arrest people associated with gambling businesses, and even people associated with businesses associated with gambling.
Google John Carruthers, Peter Dicks, Stephen Lawrence, John LeFebvre.
And all were arrested under (twisted interpretations of) pre-UIGEA law. Under UIGEA, not only could anybody associated with Second Life be arrested anytime they came within the control of the US (including emergency landings of planes never expected to enter the US, or extradition or outright kidnapping from a foreign country), but anyone who did business with Second Life would fall under the "aiding or abetting" provisions of the UIGEA and be subject to similar mistreatment.
Second Life's choices were to abandon the US entirely (servers, customers, and suppliers) or attempt to comply with the ever-changing US anti-gambling laws.
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Randy Hudson