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Home 27 Sep 2008 Kentucky governor: All your gambling sites are belong to us ICANN According to news reports, the governor of Kentucky has filed a suit in state court to seize 141 gambling domain names. His claimed authority is a 1974 law against "gambling devices", on the theory that a domain is a "device", and online gambling is taking money away from in-state horse racing and the lottery. The judge sensibly has said that he doesn't understand all the issues, and has given all sides a week to submit briefs. Two domains, highrollerslounge.com and luckypyramidcasino.com have been reassigned to the state, probably by a registrar who didn't understand the issues either. I have to say that this is a phenomenally bogus case. See more ... posted at: 16:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/kygamble.trackback 13 Sep 2008 Virginia court throws out spam law; one spammer gets away with it Email The 2004 criminal spam case against large-scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes, which I've covered in several previous blog entries, appears to have come to an ignominious end with the state supreme court throwing out the law under which he was convicted. The Virginia anti-spam law was one of the first in the country with criminal provisions, but it failed due to the way that First Amendment cases are treated differently from all other cases. See more ... posted at: 18:56 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/jaynesreverse.trackback

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