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So what we're going to do is drive away any legit foreign investment firm. This sounds like a wonderful thing to do to our economy.

I don't want to sound alarmist but here I go anyways. Eventually, just like that music download fiasco a few years ago, US players will be contacted regarding our violation of US laws pertaining to on-line gaming. A nominal fine will be inposed and we can choose to fight it our cough up the dough to Uncle Sam. How enforcable this may be we'll have to wait and see. I do know that once they're done with the bigs boys on top they start looking into us via our IP address. Maybe then, when pro pokers players with star power and other on-line players will move their weight in the right places. The rumor mill says that the US government has already asked for the IP information on US players from 888 and PartyGaming. When the rest follow suit we'll all be in this together. Good luck everyone.

Does anybody know anything about getting a bank account in Canada. I wonder since I live in a border city, can I get a bank account there and take my laptop over there and play online at the local Kinkos or something (since I'm breaking laws already I may as well steal someones wireless internet....PEOPLE WHO DO NOT USE PASSWORDS FOR THEIR WIRELESS INTERNET DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR SERVICE STOLEN). All of this aside...my main question is will the DOJ start looking at people who use foreign accounts to launder their online gambling, and if so, if I just went to Canada and took out cash each time, it would be a hard trail to follow. Im not sure.
Any bankers out there, or perhaps anybody who can shead some light on this?

Any furthermore, didn't Partygaming pull out of the USA as soon as the UIGEA was passed? So what I don't get is how did they break the law if they stopped right away. Im so confused, unless you are really trying to tell me that the DOJ will pass a law then screw everyone who broke it months and years before it was passed? TEAM AMERICA WORLD POLICE or WORLD MAFIA?

what a crock of sh*t. just stupid. there's a lot worse things going on in this country that the doj could be focusing on, like a couple criminals at the top running this country...

I don't claim to be a legal expert by any stretch, but it seems to me that the jack-booted thugs are really overstepping their boundaries on this one (pun intended). So they're looking at US employees of banks that helped foreign companies set up IPOs on a foreign stock exchange? What's next? Will anybody who buys a Persian rug (Persia is Iran, for those who don't know) be accused of supporting terrorism? I agree with Mexi...it is going the way of the download music issue. Once the DoJ puts the pinch on the financial institutions that it can reach, here's what's going to happen. They're going to identify companies (i.e. eWallets, etc.) that do business with online gaming sites. Then they're going to not only force US financial institutions to not conduct business with them, but also report any past or attempted transactions with said companies. Finally, ISPs are going to be subpoenaed (it worked with music) to provide a list of users who have logged into online gaming servers and we're all going to get some nasty email from DoJ, telling us just how f**ked we are. Oh, all of the US-based "sponsor" players (Team PokerStars, Doyle, Hellmuth, Team FullTilt, Negreneau, etc.) are going to have to publicly split from their respective sites, or emigrate to some other country where they aren't going to be prosecuted. It should be interesting.

maybe this will be an issue that will wake up a few million americans to yet one more instance of the united states government overstepping its constitutional bounds and legislating "morality" issues as a smokescreen for it's primary goal of regulating and taxing everything and everyone at whim and in defiance of law (examples include the "war on drugs" where they needed a constitutional amendement for booze, why not drugs? land seizure for the public good which the scotus is finally curtailing, and public education which has no constitutional authority to support it and look at what a marvelous job government has done with it!!! if enough people wake up and start voting out the idiots that vote these measures into law while letting the media and lawmakers know exactly why you are voting for the other guy maybe we will see them go back to stealing our money and freedoms in less intrusive ways.

FYI.....When a NEW law goes into affect it is from that day forward. The government can't look in the past to see if it was broken since it was never there.