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on Monday January 08 2018, @03:34PM
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from the 1-in-365,214,231-chance-of-getting-the-good-stuff dept.
Loot boxes in video games give the player a random item, perhaps a weapon or a skin, typically in exchange for payment. Should they be viewed as a legal sweepstakes or as an illegal lottery? This video examines the legal issues and explains how loot boxes could be structured to avoid running afoul of gambling laws (which vary by state) in the U.S.. The video concludes that many current implementations of loot boxes are really illegal lotteries, and conjectures that major game companies use them anyway because the risk of being prosecuted isn't enough to dissuade them.
Previously: Belgium Moving to Ban "Loot Boxes" Throughout Europe, Hawaii Could Restrict Sale to Minors
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday January 08 2018, @10:09PM
Our Founding Fathers said they were entitled to life, liberty, and PROPERTY. Let me tell you, our great gaming industry is all about the property. As you know, I had two beautiful casinos in Atlantic City. So I know all there is to know about gaming. And let me tell you, our Founding Fathers would be very upset if they knew what's happened to our gaming industry. The political correctness. I asked Congress, why is it only Indians can have the reservations, only Indians can have the gaming? Why aren't they approving it for everybody? Why are they being discriminatory? Why is it that the Indians don't pay tax, but everybody else does? I do. Do the few hundred members of the tribe deserve to make all the money they're making?
It’s obvious that organized crime is rampant on the Indian reservations. This thing is going to blow sky high. It will be the biggest scandal since Al Capone and it will destroy the gambling industry.
We're going to judge people by whether they have Indian blood whether they're qualified to run a casino or not? You look at some of the reservations that Congress, in its great wisdom, has approved. I will tell you right now, they don't look like Indians to me. And they don't look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don't look like Indians to me, and they don't look like Indians to Indians. And a lot of people are laughing at it. And I hear how tough it is and how rough it is to get approved. Well, you go up to Connecticut and you look. Now, they don't look like Indians to me. Why doesn't Congress approve it for everybody, then? If it's supposed to be non-discriminatory, why don't they approve for everybody? Why is it only Indians?