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My guess is that this case has served its purpose which is to make sure everyone knows Kentucky doesn't want it's $$ diverted from it's own gambling industry to out of State gambling operators. And it's been pretty effective, probably a lesson in scaremongering learned from the while UIGEA thing. Clearly it's at the expense of the rights of Kentucky residents, but most of them probably haven't realised, or don't really care, and those that do are largely powerless.
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Originally Posted by lots0
You're right - but better yet a positive ruling accompanied by an award for legal costs - that should enhance Gov. Beshear's reputation and suitability for his post with the Kentucky taxpayers!
The legal expenses incurred by the owners of these domains and outfits like iMEGA and IGC must be huge.
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It looks like this whole mess ends well for the industry.
just found the below here:
Online Gambling Big Win: Kentucky Appeals Court Ruling
Submitted by C Costigan on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 16:23.
The online gambling industry has won a Kentucky Court of Appeals decision. That court has ruled that the commonwealth cannot seize over 140 domain names of Internet gambling firms.
The decision was handed down Tuesday afternoon.
The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association was ecstatic by the ruling.
“This is a huge day for our industry!” he declared.
It is also a huge day for iMEGA, which filed the appeal on behalf of the industry.
The decision comes on the same day that President Barack Obama officially entered into the White House. The online gambling sector, reeled by the past administration,
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Why won't he just let this die? He's not going to win....they plan on taking it to the state supreme court.
http://www.gamesandcasino.com/gambli...-not-over-yet/
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Beshear doesn't seem to understand that to properly censor the internet and what 'his' citizens can access, he must block THEIR access from within his kingdom. *smirk* Someone send the gov. a link to all the news from China about them blocking websites and help the poor guy out a bit.
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LOL...
Governor Steve Beshear has to give those people that own the land based casinos in Kentucky fair value for all the money they have 'given' him to make sure they don't have any competition from the Net.
It would be VERY interesting to see who is paying for those hired lawyers Beshear brought to court and what their financial interest in Ky land based casinos are...
Also the state of Kentucky is 38th out of 51 in school funding.
You would think the people of Kentucky would be far better served if their Governor spent his time trying to improve their Educational Systems and increasing the schools systems funding instead of pandering to a rich casino owners financial wants.
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Update.
iMEGA has filed its brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court in good time for the June 1st deadline...and introduced an intrigueing new element - a video recording of the original 'secret' hearing in which Judge Wingate gave Kentucky state officials the go ahead to seize the domains:
May 27, 2009 - Lawyers for the Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) submitted their brief to the Kentucky State Supreme Court, opposing an attempt by Gov. Steven Beshear (D) to seize the rights to 141 Internet domain names.
In addition, iMEGA’s attorney’s have asked the court to review a video tape of the secret proceeding Gov. Beshear’s attorney’s used to get property seizure orders for the domain names, without notifying the property owners or giving them the opportunity to be represented.
iMEGA and a coalition of other groups had already prevailed over Gov. Beshear in a 2-to-1 majority decision from the commonwealth’s Court of Appeals back in January 2009. The appeals court blocked a lower court’s seizure orders. Gov. Beshear wanted the domain names, all related to gambling, to force online gaming firms to block Kentucky residents from using their sites, and to protect the commonwealth’s in-state gambling operations from competiton.
“We’re very confident the State Supreme Court will reach the same conclusion as the Court of Appeals,” said Joe Brennan Jr., chairman of iMEGA. “It’s too bad Gov. Beshear wants to keep fighting, but since he’s not paying for his attorneys, I guess he doesn’t care how long this takes or how much he ties up Kentucky’s court with this doomed campaign.” Gov. Beshear is represented by two law firms that have taken the legal fight on under a contigency contract, one that gives them up to one-third of any financial windfall that may result from the governor’s suit.
The effort to block Kentucky’s actions received support from a broad coalition of technology and Internet rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), the Internet Commerce Association (ICA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Club for Growth, eBay, Network Solutions, the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) and the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC).
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Hi all,
Thanks for the ongoing updates jetset
These type of events really get under my skin. I shudder to think of the money that goes into fighting these cases in court, not to mention the insane amount of cash to appeal a ruling in the High Court.
Tax payers money that could & should be spent IMHO on far greater causes that would benefit the community on a whole.
my 2cents worth!
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T
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This shit is right out of.....
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Actually I think it is more like look how big Beshear's balls are...
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/...ap6526212.html
Isn't this the good ole boy Gov. Steve Beshear that was going to protect the citizens of Kentucky from the "Evils" of Gambling by seizing gambling domains... Is it just me or does the hypocrisy smell real bad in Kentucky?Kentucky's horse racing industry would get a stimulus package of its own under Gov. Steve Beshear's proposal to allow video gambling in the state, with the bulk of the proceeds going to the tracks.
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Smells like horse poop and money....
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