Cassandra Syndrome

[dr_venkman]

Cassandra, in Greek legend you will recall,
was condemned to know the future but to be
disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence,
the agony of foreknowledge combined with
impotence to do anything about it.


Does anyone else here ever have a strange feeling that online poker is going to be targeted by intruding government forces (probably backed by the religious Christian conservative republicans)?

Once in a while I feel like I have to get as much money out of poker as I can because one day [soon] someone is going to start screaming about how innocent people are being lead astray by the devil's cards and begin to crack down on internet players... like the way they pinched a bunch of file sharing users of the Napster program.

Despite online casino businesses often being located overseas, there must be central server farms that exist in the U.S to cope with the bandwidth and connectivity. Will FBI agents one day be breaking down the doors of the servers in the U.S., collecting names and ISP address of account holders?

With the growing attraction of Hold 'Em, I wonder sometimes what devious little plots people like Billy Grahm and Jerry Falwell are hatching. Record companies were screaming that sharing files were destroying their profit margins. So I wonder what special interest group feels like online gambling is cutting into their bottom line.

What's the legal future of online poker?