Isn't gambling business subject to licenses?

Hypothetically.

I run my business from x country, online gambling is not illegal and I don't need a lecence. Are LL liable for me operating legally in my own country? Am I deemed to be operating on US land when using LL servers.

I beilieve strongly that the LL should operate as other platform providers do.

If I am not breaking a law in my country and you are not breaking a law in your country then keep out of it.

If there are certain behaviours that the general community deems unacceptable, even if not illegal for the perpetrator, then set that into the TOS.

The US have different laws in different states and the rest of the world has different laws as well. Let's not go down the route of American Law must prevail. There is no need in 'Law' to do this. Only for American organisations to obey the laws in their own land. It is not illegal for LL to host a site on which a company based in another country operates a business which is illegal in the US. They may get investigated and any collusion become the legal loophole LL gets hit by, but SL is not an exclusively american game.

There is a discussion about sims to be hosted on different servers, run by developers, those sims. If they operate out of a different country, and/or LL move their incorporation to another country, the laws change for LL and the server hosts.

If the 'gamer' is breaking a law in their own country/state, as the Washingtonians may do if they gamble online, that is their issue, not the gambling establishment, nor LL.

It really doesn't matter if the casino owner is in another country, though, the server he is using as a host for his game is in the US, in CA and I would imagine subject to the laws of that state and country, if they apply here, and I still think it's a grey area.

LL would be responsible, not the user, if any laws are being broken, I think. It's their platform, game, servers... whatever.

Gambling is different from other things people do in SL. Because it is regulated in the US, if money changes hands, and it definately is inworld. Technically, so is prostitution, but since I can look in my local phone book and find pages of "Escort Services" I doubt the Feds will come knocking on any doors, heh.

The only way this is going to get solved....


is by posting 543 more opinions to this thread, then we will have true legal precedent.

Eddy, I believe this discussion is not about solving a problem, but instead gaining understanding.