Monday, December 8th, 2008
An effort by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling Web site names is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet.
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
The Washington Post provides a good outline of the attempt by the state of Kentucky to seize more than 140 online gambling domain names. The article says the case is raising novel legal questions about the physical location of digital property and the reach of local and regional governments on the global Internet. … Attorneys for the state convinced Judge Thomas Wingate that the gambling domain names were tangible “gambling devices” that could be seized under Kentucky’s gaming statutes. Wingate
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