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[Yves Quemener]

Is the armchair lawyer wrong in supposing that online gambling has nothing
to do with physical, in-location, challenges?  Did you understand that this
challenge is not an online event but a physically US-located event?

As I said, I can go to a gun show or to a casino in the US. I guess there
may be some countries who would criticize or attack me when I go back home
but I don't see a single case where it would be the legal responsibility of
the casino or the show that would be engaged.

Oh, and as a note, yeah, I am quite a non-expert in law. I am expert in
domains where I learned that there is no shame in asking questions to
people more knowledgeable. I do think that knowledge exchange works better
when contributions are not coated with contempt, but if it is the way it
must be, so be it.

On 27/05/13 03:55, Walter van Holst wrote:
> On 2013-05-26 17:14, Yves Quemener wrote:
> 
>> I don't think that there is a single country out there claiming universal
>> competence on gambling. Even most human rights violation don't have that
>> string attached. Even as a citizen of a country with different gambling and
>> arms laws, I can go to a casinos in Las Vegas, I can go to a gun show or a
>> shoot range without approval from the French government.
> 
> Ah, an armchair lawyer. Always lovely. I suggest you google "Antigua,
> gambling, WTO", or "gambling website blocking EU". In fact, the vast
> majority of industrialised countries consider their gambling laws as having
> some extraterritorial scope.
> 
> At the end of the day, if any client were to come to me (and yes, I do
> practice law) with the question on how to treat this my answer would be:
> "Go to gambling law experts in any and all jurisdictions you are going to
> be active in. And if that is too much of a hassle, restrict it to the ones
> you know about. My understanding of Dutch gambling laws allow me to give
> you an idea of the restrictions you will have to live with in case you
> don't want to have to apply for a permit. Feel free, and in this particular
> case I even urge you, to get a second opinion on this advice from someone
> well-versed in gambling law. Because I am a mere IT-contracts lawyer and
> not an expert in this particular field, let alone in foreign jurisdictions."
> 
> Anyway, I am done with this conversation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>  Walter
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