Re: If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???
The way the US infrastructure is set up, it can't just block the IP's - not without drastically changing the way it runs the internet. It can't block every ISP provider and route. and if you can't stop it at the ISP, you really can't stop it without sniffing source and destination traffic along the route which is IMPOSSIBLE to do - way too much data.
think about it - I can find details on ANY illegal activity on the internet - The thing is very resiliant to censorship - Even China has to fight tooth and nail to do it and they have a lot fewer users and routes into their country, methinks.
Corporations with lots of money have tried using the DMCA to remove info and sites they want, but they pop up all over creation - and don't get me started on thwat the WTO would say about it...
it's sorta like worrying about running out of salt water in the ocean...is it possible? If it is, we won't recognize ourselves when it's done. We certainly wouldn't be the land of the free anymore if the US took the steps necessary to stop online gambling. They'd have to trod over a lot of laws and precedents that have kept it going.
RB
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