The legislation does not actually ban Australians from gambling through off-shore sites. Under the legislation Australian banks are not allowed to honour credit card debts to off-shore gambling sites. Presumably this is to encourage sites to ban Australian credit card numbers (which I believe are identifiable by the first 5 digits).
Who knows, maybe some entrepeneurial bank from another country will make a fortune supplying international credit cards to Aussie gamblers?
Unfortunately it looks to be a certainty that these stupid laws will pass like others before them, I just hope that one day somebody will be able to remove them.
I think that if the entries are not overly priced and only where appropriate then it could improve Yahoo's functionality for the user.
If applied only to the business section and the price per year was say, equal to or less than the cost of a domain registration, it would sort out the serious businesses from the con artists. A small fee such as that is nothing for a legitimate business and this would mean that all Yahoo business results were people who were obviously serious about doing business with the consumer.
If however, rankings were sold, as Altavista was planning on, then the idea would be preposterous. It should also only be applied to categories for businesses, if somebody wants to add a page about how they take care of their pet then it is ridiculous to think of charging them.
If done right, adding a small fee for registration where appropriate could make Yahoo the one-stop shopping search engine for most.
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The legislation does not actually ban Australians from gambling through off-shore sites. Under the legislation Australian banks are not allowed to honour credit card debts to off-shore gambling sites. Presumably this is to encourage sites to ban Australian credit card numbers (which I believe are identifiable by the first 5 digits).
Who knows, maybe some entrepeneurial bank from another country will make a fortune supplying international credit cards to Aussie gamblers?
Unfortunately it looks to be a certainty that these stupid laws will pass like others before them, I just hope that one day somebody will be able to remove them.
I think that if the entries are not overly priced and only where appropriate then it could improve Yahoo's functionality for the user.
If applied only to the business section and the price per year was say, equal to or less than the cost of a domain registration, it would sort out the serious businesses from the con artists. A small fee such as that is nothing for a legitimate business and this would mean that all Yahoo business results were people who were obviously serious about doing business with the consumer.
If however, rankings were sold, as Altavista was planning on, then the idea would be preposterous. It should also only be applied to categories for businesses, if somebody wants to add a page about how they take care of their pet then it is ridiculous to think of charging them.
If done right, adding a small fee for registration where appropriate could make Yahoo the one-stop shopping search engine for most.