Porn, well you'll find a lot of sex crimes going on in this country and not always between legal aged consenting adults. I would venture to say that most sex offenders and pediphiles are also porn partakers.
How many people have been arrested for pulling someones arm thinking they were a slot machine? None!
Thanks for that very revealing link 4Ofakind, To bad those idiots don't realize the money stolen is from their very own honest, hard working voters!
They might not, but come November 2012, the voters may well have seen enough of these stories to realise that all this money IS being taken from THEM, rather than the overseas companies.
Currently, the casinos have made good the seized funds by ensuring the players get paid again through whatever alternative method they manage to set up. This is all to do with them wanting the players to keep coming back, and nothing to do with their morals. If they decide NOT to carry on trying to serve US players, they may NOT make good the latest batch of seized payouts, and it seems QT are arguing that they are not responsible for making the payouts again by an alternative method, but are telling customers that they have left the market, and that they need to contact the DoJ, because that is where the money is. The DoJ are telling players that they do NOT have their money, but this is BS, because they DO have the money in those seized accounts, and QT say this money was the accumulation of the latest customer payments that had been blocked by the DoJ operation from reaching players.
QT may well have much more money, but they know the DoJ can't get at it, and since they no longer want to serve the US market, they don't care about keeping the trust of their former US customers by trying to pay them again with other money.
Ecocard separated QT off into a separate company, and this company probably does NOT have any "other money", as it was a means to ring fence the US monies so that problems would not impact upon the international business.
The QT subsidiary will probably be put into liquidation, and even though US customers would have a valid claim, there would be no money there - it would all be behind the "firewall" constructed by Ecocard, and they would not be responsible for the debts of their QT subsidiary.
This is a common business trick, and often used to protect a company's core business from their high risk ventures. The high risk venture can fail, but not bring the whole company down with it.
The only pressure there is on Ecocard to pay up is the possibilty that their international cutomers will lose faith in the ability of Ecocard to keep THEIR money safe, and having a wide choice of eWallet providers, may decide to move away from Ecocard to one seen as better at protecting customers' funds when things go wrong.
November 2012 may be an opportunity for players to put pressure on the government to make sure they get their money back one way or another from these seizures, and making these stories mainstream will ensure that ALL voters get a chance to see what is going on, rather than just those who use online gambling sites.
