WTO Sanctioned Piracy

[MRT144]

How do you compete with free?

Give people a product they feel is worth throwing their money to and provide additional value outside of the sphere of the product itself.

I don't pirate games because I want people who make good games to get some money.

If I could purchase the music I listen to I would, but unfortunately a lot of it is out of print.

[Krill]

So the WTO is outlawing federated government? There are states that allow casino gambling, but I'm pretty sure all of those states have a regulatory gambling commission. Obviously neither the US nor any of its states have that option of regulating gambling in Antigua.
I.m sorry, but I just don't see that Antigua has the right to impose gambling on states that ban it. What happens when some country decides to offer on-line kiddy porn?

It's more that it was legal to gamble inside the state but not outside it, which was viewed as anti-competitive practice. The correct analogy you have would be what if the US allowed kiddy porn to be bought only from local retailers and not from other countries.

[Dr Strangelove]

I'm not really that up on gambling. Do some states permit on-line casino gambling? If so, is that on-line casino gambling accessable across state lines?

[Krill]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_...#United_States (Only just read this)

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled[10] in November 2002 that the Federal Wire Act prohibits electronic transmission of information for sports betting across telecommunications lines but affirmed a lower court ruling[11] that the Wire Act "'in plain language' does not prohibit Internet gambling on a game of chance." But the federal Department of Justice continues, publicly, to take the position that the Wire Act covers all forms of gambling.[12]

I think some states do permit gambling online, and I know for a fact that Louisiana prohibits all forms of internet gambling. Beyond that I'd just be regurgitating sources. my interpretation of this is that IF the US federal government regulated online gambling in every state, or outright banned it in every state that would have been fine by the WTO.