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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1128152, member: 23910"]
*facepalm*
 
Depressing, innit.
 
It's been theoretically illegal for poker sites to provide their services to us for years, I don't believe it's ever been enforced though because nobody that runs one lives in a jurisdiction that cares, and there's nothing in the legislation (yes, I actually tracked it down and read it) that says anything about the players.
 
Of course there are exemptions in the legislation - internet sports betting is legal and has a special exemption written in, for example, because they've obviously got enough lobbying power.  The legislation is [I]supposed[/I] to curb problem gambling, but I'd put money (d'yaseewhatIdidthere?) on there being a lot more problem sports bettors than any other kind in this country.  It's just so much part of our culture.
 
The other stupid thing about this is that they're banning internet sites - like, say, Full Tilt's site.  Thing is, I don't access Full Tilt through their website.  Since I downloaded their software years ago, their website only performs ancilliary functions like telling me the pathetic amount of FPPs I've accumulated or who's winning the Durrrr challenge.
 
The same goes for lots of other things too, I imagine - just banning internet sites won't stop things like peer-to-peer transfers.
 
I'm all for getting rid of child porn and punishing those responsible for creating and distributing it.  It makes me sick.  But we must've come up with the stupidest, most inneffective and most easily abused way of doing it.
 
WTG Australia :rolleyes:
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