Re: If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???
 

This is a little off topic, but I occaisionally work at a site that uses a company LAN that blocks sites related to gambling (including 2+2) among other things. They also block proxy sites, or appear to. Anyway around this?

Re: If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???
 

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This is a little off topic, but I occaisionally work at a site that uses a company LAN that blocks sites related to gambling (including 2+2) among other things. They also block proxy sites, or appear to. Anyway around this?

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Yes but doing so is a really good way to get fired.

Re: If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???
 

If they attack online poker (very unlikely) they do through the banks, not through the internet. They'll make it very difficult to get money from your bank account to a pokersite or neteller and vice-versa. Whether or not the sites could find an easy/convenient workaround would depend on exactly what restictions are put on the banks. Online poker would be screwed if every player had to mail a check or money order to the site to cash in, and recieve a check (or maybe even cash) through the mail or FedEx to cash out.

Re: If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???
 

It would take a concerted federal effort to find that on-line gambling is illegal and enforce it against individual users. I was merely trying to identify some factors that would seem to make this more unlikely than it would have been 5-6 years ago.

Also, it is not so simple as to whether a law in a particular state could be applied more directly to find that on-line gambling is illegal. Enforcement is made much more difficult by the inter-state/international nature of the internet and thus the federal/state lines become very blurry and complicated.