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Old 12-29-2006, 02:10 AM  
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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo View Post
Online gambling in the US is illegal, however Boneprone is not betting through the US but instead overseas. The US Lotto case would have no bearing on this at all.

While placing sports bets overseas has been illegal for close to 10 years, online gambling has not.
The USLotto vs the USA case went to the SCOTUS and they agreed that using a computer to gamble violated the wire act because we use phone lines accross state lines to connect to the internet even if to a foreign nation.
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