http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/uk-online-gambling-site-settles-with-dept-of-justice/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:26:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/uk-online-gambling-site-settles-with-dept-of-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-45154 Robert Clark Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:03:53 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=10386#comment-45154 Unfreakin real! How about the US starts taxing these websites instead of trying to punish them. They would make a heck of a lot more money that way. Unfreakin real! How about the US starts taxing these websites instead of trying to punish them. They would make a heck of a lot more money that way.

]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/uk-online-gambling-site-settles-with-dept-of-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-44452 Todd Rogers Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:30:34 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=10386#comment-44452 My initial musings are to extend a generous but singular "digital" message to DOJ. Next I wonder, if DOJ can reach <i>across the pond</i> and shake down businesses retroactively, what's to stop them from building a target <strike>hit</strike>list of all kinds of domestic businesses who they don't like? As though they're not already doing it now. Lastly, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall during the <strike>extortion</strike>negotiation meetings to understand the business case made for paying this protection money as opposed to just closing up shop and moving to perhaps Zurich and starting over. My initial musings are to extend a generous but singular “digital” message to DOJ. Next I wonder, if DOJ can reach across the pond and shake down businesses retroactively, what’s to stop them from building a target hitlist of all kinds of domestic businesses who they don’t like? As though they’re not already doing it now. Lastly, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall during the extortionnegotiation meetings to understand the business case made for paying this protection money as opposed to just closing up shop and moving to perhaps Zurich and starting over.

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