RE: Will Amnesty International be taking up the case of DavidCarruthers of BetOnSports?

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 so how could have he protected himself from US law while still offering his online casino?  Would a simple disclaimer 
page be sufficient?  One that states, by clicking below you accept full responsibility blahdy blah blah?

   I still fail to see how he could be prosecuted under US law for a web casino that is hosted in his own country where 
it's perfectly legal.....

 
   Mike B


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Loe [mailto:knobdy () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:38 AM
To: Drsolly
Cc: Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec); funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Will Amnesty International be taking up the case of DavidCarruthers of BetOnSports?

On 7/20/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > Question I have here is: how did this guy break a US law from the UK?
>
> You can break the law of country X while standing in country Y.  For
> example, if you throw a stone across the border, deliberately, in order to
> smash someone's window.
>
> If the act is a crime in *both* countries, then country Y will normally
> extradite the perp to country X to stand trial there. If it's not a crime
> in country Y, then they normally won't extradite.

I understood/understand all of that, but the question is how did HE
break a US law from the UK - I'm pretty sure the "pond" is far to wide
to be throwing rocks over. Did he break it by advertising here
perhaps?

In other words, his services were obtained by US citizens going to
him, not the other way around. And its not as if they were going to
him because he mislead them as to what his services were (he wasn't
offering up some African country's riches to be transferred to their
account upon their visit). Seems to me that his customers may have
broken the law but not his company - UNLESS there's some weird law
about advertising illegal services to US citizens (we citizens being
to stupid/ignorant to know better ourselves). If that were the case
though, this would just be an issue for online gambling sites, as
mentioned before, but for a whole slew of services being advertised
via the web.

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