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What law requires Canadian and South African citizens to do a mathematical skill test when winning promotional gifts?
In the terms and conditions of a keysight promotion to win an oscilloscope, I stumbled over the following sentence:
In accordance with local laws, if the selected entrant is a Canadian or South African resident, that entrant will be required to…
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If I use stolen money to gamble, do I get to keep the winnings?
If a person were to steal $10,000 from a convenience store and gamble with it, winning $500,000.
And later they were caught, would the government only claw back the $10,000 or also the $500,000?
Would there be any legal way of "saving the ill-gotten…
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Would Georgie’s “Teddy Bear Casino” from Young Sheldon actually be legal?
On the TV series Young Sheldon, Connie secretly runs an illegal casino (slot machines and card games where you can earn cash), which is shut down by the police.
Connie’s grandson Georgie thinks she can reopen the casino by making all the games only…
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Does any state legislature explicitly prohibit the use of playing cards in school?
I am a Math teacher in a private school in the US. A majority of students consider probability and statistics a very boring topic and tend to focus significantly less compared to other topics. So last semester I reworked the curriculum and started…
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Exploiting online video games illegal, a tort, or allowable under the law?
Recently a news story came out about "Manfred", a hacker who makes a living exploiting bugs in online video games to make in-game currency (or items) which he then sells to other gamers. Here is a description:
A hacker says he turned finding and…
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Would it be legal for bookmakers to take bets on someone being assassinated?
Background: My colleague just told me that he reckons Donald Trump's presidency is most likely to end in assassination. My first thought was: "Why not put money on it then?"; my second thought was "Would that be legal?".
From the bookmaker's point…
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How does modern Wall St. work in NYS gambling laws?
The New York State Constitution §9, mostly reprinted below, tightly restricts gambling. The definition, as written by the legislature, is also reprinted below.
DraftKings and FanDuel ask players to predict the sum performance of various statistics…
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Can online gambling sites bias their games?
There's biases in gambling, such as the 0 on a roulette table, but that is arguably obvious to the player.
Is it legal for online casinos to knowingly or unknowingly bias their games at a software level (random number generator etc) in their favour?…
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Is CS:GO Jackpot legal?
I recently stumbled upon a website where people gamble for Counter Strike: Global Offensive skins called CS:GO Jackpot. And to my surprise, it is extremely popular.
Is it legal for those running CS:GO Jackpot to do this? Do they need a gambling…
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Is it illegal for a police officer to buy lottery tickets?
I work retail and one of my jobs includes upselling lottery tickets. I was told by a police officer (clearly on duty & uniformed) that it was illegal for them to buy one while on duty as it is considered gambling.
Is this true?
This is in the UK,…
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How are MMOs with real money economies allowed to operate?
A lot of Massively Multiplayer Online games include a form of "premium" in-game economy that may be purchased with real money (cash) by the player, usually for the purposes of faster progression in the game or cosmetic upgrades. For example, there…
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When does a videogame become a gacha game?
Recently I have been observing a lot of gaming companies pushing contents in their games that to my understanding should meet the definition of gacha. Yet, for some reason those games manage to avoid all the restrictions a gacha game should have, in…
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Legal difference between Binary Options regulated by CFTC and gambling regulated by U. S. member states
I have trouble to understand the exact (legal) difference between binary options and gambling. Binary options are regulated in the United States by the CFTC and gambling is regulated by each U.S. state individually. Some U. S. state have allowed…
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Would Poker (with *Zero* real-world currency involved) in an M-Rated (18+) Online game be constituted Online Gambling?
Players of Red Dead Redemption 2: Online (RDO from now on) have been requesting that Poker or other gambling activities be added to the game.
These were expected to be included, as they are present in the Single Player, and in the predecessor Red…
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Why do "loot-crate" mechanics in video games not fall under gambling laws?
Many games nowadays have loot crate mechanics in place, that let the players test their luck. Typically the player is given the crate for free and can only open it by purchasing a "key". In some games you can buy both.
The player is essentially…
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