Thoughts from PPA
The Poker Players Alliance has been an active part of monitoring the Kentucky
situation for over a year now and now that the Kentucky Supreme court has issued
out a ruling in the domain name seizure case, the heads of the PPA have quite a
bit to say about this case is winding down. The state of Kentucky very well may
strongly lose its case that attempts to seize the domain names of more than 150
online casinos that are/were allegedly active within the Kentucky market. The
case has gone all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court and has a few ups and
downs – with both sides winning points along the way in the previous rulings
from the lower courts and the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
The latest ruling has asked that the online casinos in question actually come
forward and name themselves before the state Supreme Court will actually pass a
ruling that even remotely sides in favor of the “domain names” in question. The
online casino sites have, up until this point, been represented by iMEGA, a
situation that the Court has deemed inappropriate. In light of this latest
ruling, to have the companies come forward and name themselves, the PPA sees the
necessity in the court ruling.
The PPA has even gone so far as to interpret the latest ruling as a favorable
opinion on how the situation will turn out if the online casinos and gambling
sites implicated the domain name seizure case actually come forward. The PPA
still asserts that the Kentucky Supreme Court will side on that of internet
neutrality rather than allow an individual US state to regulate the
international internet in the way that Kentucky is currently attempting. |