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Bruno Buckenburger
Registered User
Join date: 30 Dec 2004
Posts: 464
08-02-2007 10:39
From: Gisela Vale
The Uigea is considerably more than a "tiny tidbit law" when the effect of it results in millions of dollars in assets being seized. Ask Neteller, Citadel, or Betonsports if they consider it a tiny tidbit of law.

Neither Neteller nor Citadel had anything to do with online gambling other than the single act of processing USD for others who were doing it.

The undisputed fact remains that if you are unable to trade your L for cash though the LindeX exchange owned and operated by Linden Labs, then neither you nor they are committing a crime under the law.

We get rid of the LindeX and the problem is solved.


I am respectful of your position here but I think you are off-target. First off, NeTeller is in the process of refunding $91M to online poker players now that they have worked out the refund process with the US government. The executives there and at other virtual wallet companies know damn well who butters their bread. They can claim to not be directly involved in online gaming but from a legal standpoint, they are a conduit to making the activity occur. Credit card companies understood this years ago when they banned using credit cards (at least in the US) to fund online gaming sites.

Before LindenX there were several third party currency exchange services. If you scale down SL to what it was a year and a half ago, some of these sites were easily processing as much currency as LL does now. Someone can gladly prove me wrong on that opinion but I know when my casinos were running back in the day, people had no problem buying and selling currency. If LindenX goes away (which it won't) plenty of people will step in to satisfy the demand.

Hell I remember buying money for TSO -- how pathetic is that :-)?
Cracker Hax
Registered User
Join date: 6 Mar 2007
Posts: 15
08-11-2007 00:19
From: Rebecca Proudhon
I guess you aren't aware of this. Google search "gold farmers"





Well I guess you aren't aware that people sell potatoes either.

google search "potato farming"


Lol. Pwnt.
Chilly Charlton
Registered User
Join date: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 483
Sex is next
08-13-2007 14:40
Sex is next.

Since the L$ is now real money

And

PayPal + Sex = NO NO

Then

The writing is on the wall. We know who pulls LL's strings now. The L$ HAS become real, it is no longer our world our imagination, the motto needs to be changed (I have some suggestions).

I'm only sorry I wasn't vocal when others before were GOMed. I would cite a famous german poem but it's been cited enough and I'm just as guilty.

For PayPal sex is not simply the act, I doubt anyone ever paid a RL hooker for RL sex through PayPal, we are talking about pornographic materials, representations, pixels even == SL

Say goodbye to escorts and cam shows and stripper clubs and snap on toys ... ok say good bye to any of the forementioned that are not FREE. no I'm not into any of that sex stuff but many were not into simulated games of chance and they didn't care. People only care about thier own particular interests and it's easy to pick off one group at a time when no one supports each other.

L$ will be divorced from sex and sex will be free and all those whose interest in sex and L$ or have invested in it will be left holding the bag. LL does not care about it's residents nor it's groups and as an idividual cares NOTHING. LL only cares about LL.

I understand the changes, I disagree with the execution of the changes. LL doesn't have any respect for it's own community otherwise LL would be more graceful in how it chose to grow up.


This is what happens when you make L$ = Real dollars. It's done.


I give it less then a year.
Strife Onizuka
Moonchild
Join date: 3 Mar 2004
Posts: 5,887
08-16-2007 03:50
Reason: Necromancy
Action: Lock & LR
Source: AR
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