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Originally Posted by magisk
Hey 2+2, im not expert but im thinking this:
Since there is so sick much money involved isn’t it logical that all PS and ftps servers/data/program/system and what not will be seized as well shortly, making the sites go completely offline? And possibly the only reason some people are able to access software/cashier now is because it takes time for the legal process to reach the respective country’s where that’s stored?...
And if not wont they have a huge problem with dep/cashouts in the future anyways because the company’s who where handling the money is now charged for exactly that, and from a legal perspective wont it look terrible if they create a new setup while this case is going? Like, wouldn’t that underline the prosecutors base argument?
The investigation will also be so major with the new amount of data accessible and European countrsy/banks will be involved for sure. The exact way they are operating will be brought out in the light and what banks will want their business now? no one (not a safe one at least)
And thinking from a non poker industry perspective, if lets say CNN was charged with money laundering and all sorts of stuff in US I don’tt think they would be able to carie on their European operations as normal.. (where some places poker is as illigal as in US if not more).. There are also actually regulations and laws in place that would prohibit a business convicted of some of these charges from even operating anywhere if im not mistaken..
Also I kinda feel like that if PS and FTP thought that things where going to be okay they would have shutdown clients totally hindering anyone to access cashiers and release a statement saying that the all player balances is safe and that they will reopen shortly (this would make sense because now 95% of all players are trying to withdraw)
However that’s not what they have done, they have made no statementnt as im aware of or in any other way tried treassurere people tha EU players at least are not affected. Which just makes me think very soon when the servers are down and all the bank accounts locked, someone just won the "Friday billion" (SPOILER: US government) And beacuse of this the sites are trying to get players moneys out, quickly.
Well, they did lock all of the US players from withdrawing money, if you have been following the forum at all. As well, they did have a notification on both sites saying that the money would be fine (although even if the money WASN'T fine, they would probably say that anyways).
Legally, from what I have been reading, them seizing all of the money on all the sites is just absurd. They (the poker sites) have definitely taken precautions to make sure every ones funds cant be seized (so we are told).
To think about this logically though, why would the US government be able to seize the funds of millions of players playing in a world-wide online site that have nothing to do with US regulations or laws? The thought of them seizing the funds is just ludicrous, and there is no way they will be able to. To all the people that think your money isn't safe, you have nothing to worry about over this (unless you are a US citizen, in which case they may say you were playing illegally, however no one was playing illegally, so I doubt that will happen. The thing that was illegal was just what the owners did, and so they are, or should be, the only ones being charged.). As far as non-US players, if other countries start following suite we may be ****ed as well, but for the time being it should be fine.