[asterisk-users] FW: Peter Dicks Chairman of Sportingbet PLC is arrested at JFK!!

[Alex Robar]

The guy was arrested because he was conciously allowing US citizens to
gamble online, something illegal in the US at this point. He ran a business
who's sole profit source came from this illegal activity. Spencer is an
entirely different situation. He's not running a business in which he
provides VoIP to places where it is illegal. He's running a business the
develops software that enables VoIP... There's a big difference there. If
someone takes the software and uses it in a place where VoIP is illegal,
that does not make Spencer responsible. Think of it along the lines of
BitTorrent software. The software isn't illegal - it has valid uses - but it
_could_ be used for something illegal. All that means is that the user of
the software has commited a crime; Not the developer.

Alex

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> *From:* Dean Collins
> *Sent:* Friday, 8 September 2006 10:22 AM
> *To:* 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
> *Subject:* FW: Peter Dicks Chairman of Sportingbet PLC is arrested at
> JFK!!
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> I'm sending this to the asterisk list – consciously knowing it will piss
> some people off but this is the *most important business issue of the day*for anyone doing business in or with a US company.
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> Oh and before anyone on this list thinks of calling this OT – how about
> Mark Spencer being arrested while travelling in a country like India or the
> Middle East that has banned VOIP services (which is still illegal because
> they cant tax it of course).
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> I don't know what you are going to be able to do with this information but
> this has to be discussed as it affect the future of international commerce
> when dealing with the USA.
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> Best intentions,
>
> Dean
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> *From:* Dean Collins
> *Sent:* Friday, 8 September 2006 10:15 AM
> *Subject:* Peter Dicks Chairman of Sportingbet PLC is arrested at JFK!!
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> This is bullshit.
>
> I don't know how to effectively express my outrage over this action by the
> US government.
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>
> Check out these links for background info;
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> www.nytimes.com<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/technology/08gamble.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
> money.cnn.com<http://money.cnn.com/2006/09/08/news/international/bc.leisure.sportingbet.reut/?postversion=2006090808>
> today.reuters.co.uk<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-09-07T160138Z_01_N07242747_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-LEISURE-SPORTINGBET-DICKS.XML>
> www.businessweek.com<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8K02SM85.htm?sub=apn_euro_up&chan=gb>
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>
>
> So basically we have a UK citizen, operating a UK business (sportingbetplc.com
> board)<http://www.sportingbetplc.com/pages/15/Our+Board.stm?PHPSESSID=15ba3131b6035fc855dabdde5c19b246>who the moment he steps foot into the USA is arrested, not for crimes he
> committed but for crimes committted by US citizens.
>
> Oh and arrested under ambiguous Louisiana law, that defines all interstate
> gaming as illegal.
>
> I cant wait for the chairman of the NY Times to be arrested on a visit to
> China because chinese citizens were reading copies of the NY Times on the
> internet.
>
> Oh and as for visiting 'unfriendly' countries, how about if Castro started
> shooting american tourists he found in Cuba for 'crimes of treason' in
> carrying US dollars in their wallets?
>
> This is insane America. When are you going to wake up and begin to be a
> good 'world citizen'?
>
> You cant just arrest people for 'crimes against the state' that dont even
> occur in your country........isn't that what terrorists do? Impose their
> will against the world at large.
>
> I keep hoping I will wake up and the insanity will end? it's like a bad
> dream.
> It's getting hard to tell who is the bad guys anymore.
>
>
> http://deancollinsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/peter-dicks-chairman-of-sportingbet.html
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> Dean
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Alex Robar
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