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To: FJB who wrote (1243)	4/20/2011 1:44:11 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1272

Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars have regained access to their domain names after striking an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York I generally don't want multi-national organization to take over decision making from individual governments, but I don't think the US government, esp. just at the level of a US Attorney's office, should be able to shut down world wide sites. Even if I supported the US's ban (and I certainly do not) I would likely still be against this method of enforcement. A federal prosecutor shouldn't have that kind of power outside the US. (I also think the government shouldn't exercise the power over individual citizens that it does, to try to prevent them from online poker, or any number of other things where they are not attacking or defrauding other people, but that's a policy preference, but as foolish as such policies are, they are not imposing US government power outside the US.)