Ca en prend le chemin en tout cas.
For immediate release November 12, 2008Agencies Issue Final Rule to Implement Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act
The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board today announced the release of a joint final rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The Act prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks.
The Board and the Treasury are required by the Act to develop a joint rule in consultation with the Department of Justice. The final rule requires U.S. financial firms that participate in designated payment systems to establish and implement policies and procedures that are reasonably designed to prevent payments to gambling businesses in connection with unlawful Internet gambling. The rule provides non-exclusive examples of such policies and procedures and sets out the regulatory enforcement framework. For purposes of the rule, unlawful Internet gambling generally would cover the making of a bet or wager that involves use of the Internet and that is unlawful under any applicable federal or state law in the jurisdiction where the bet or wager is initiated, received, or otherwise made.
Compliance with the rule is required by December 1, 2009.
En gros et pour schématiser les banques vont bloquer toutes les transactions qu'elles jugent illégales (que ce soit des dépôts sur des comptes on line ou même des retraits) ou elles seront elle mêmes dans l'illégalité... donc il sera impossible pour un joueur américain de jouer en ligne et de gagner de l'argent.
Now les joueurs américains veulent faire plier le gouvernement en faisant des envois massifs de mails de protestation ICI et ICI pour stopper la loi qui entrera en vigueur en décembre 2009.
Tout cela se trouve sur ces pages... ICI
Now quelle chance que le peuple fasse plier le gouvernement ???? la dernière fois que l'opinion américaine a réussi un tel exploit c'était pour faire cesser la guerre du Vietnam... hum hum... on est mal barré... Poker Player Alliance promet de se battre => allez ICI to find out comment...
Cela risque en plus de donner des idées à nos politiques en France...L'italie elle a trouvé une solution, espérons que Nicolas Sarkozi prenne exemple.
ps: le gouvernement bush n'a rien d'autre à faire faire à ses banquiers ? franchement on est dans une crise mondiale où des milliards se sont volatilisés en crédit fantôme, en actions, en bombes et munitions en Irak, en $ faible, bref les USA perdent des billions de partout... était ce vraiment la priorité le jeu online ?
U.S. issues Internet gambling rule, ignoring lawmaker
Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:34pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve issued a final rule on Wednesday aimed at stopping illegal Internet gambling, two days after a leading Democratic lawmaker called for a delay because of the problems he said it would cause for banks.
The regulation pleased Republican lawmakers, who still controlled the Congress in 2006 when it passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. They have wanted the Bush administration to issue the rule before leaving office in January.
"No longer will the offshore gambling interests benefit from any turning any computer into a casino that is available every minute of the day," Rep. Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, said in a statement welcoming the new rule, which he noted was more than one year late.
The 2006 law cost Europe's online gambling companies billions in lost market value as they were forced to retreat from one of their most lucrative markets.
The legislation barred businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic fund transfers and checks.
The rule issued on Wednesday to implement the 2006 act requires "U.S. financial firms that participate in designated payment systems to establish and implement policies that are reasonably designed to prevent payments to businesses in connection with unlawful Internet gambling," the Treasury Department said in a statement.
"For purposes of the rule, unlawful Internet gambling generally would cover the making of a bet or wager that involves use of the Internet and that is unlawful under any applicable federal or state law in the jurisdiction where the bet or wager is initiated, received or otherwise made," the Treasury said.
Companies have until December 1, 2009 to comply with the new rule, the Treasury said.
On Monday, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, accused the Bush administration of rushing to implement the new regulation, which he said should be left to the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
"This midnight rulemaking will tie the hands of the new administration, burden the financial services industry at a time of economic crisis and contradict the stated intent of the Financial Services Committee," Frank said.
The new regulation also failed to define unlawful Internet gambling, Frank said, "leaving it to each financial institution to reconcile conflicting state and federal laws, court decisions and inconsistent Department of Justice interpretations when determining whether to process a transaction."
"Furthermore, some of the information needed to make this determination would likely be unavailable to banks because customers or financial institutions in foreign jurisdictions will likely be unwilling or unable to provide it," he added.
The House Financial Services passed a bill to block Treasury and the Federal Reserve from issuing the new rules and require them instead to define the term "unlawful Internet gambling."
However, the full Congress has not approved that legislation.
(Editing by Gary Crosse)
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