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- thegrott, on 10/12/2007, -2/+85Disclaimer: The following information is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind and should only be used for educational purposes.
The following is also pasted in from Google cache, in the interests of freedom of speech!
In order to bypass the US poker ban you will first need to hide your ip address so that instead of showing up as an American citizen you will be now shown as a Canadian. This is important as the ban only affects American citizens and not Canadians, who can freely register on all the various poker sites.
Step 1: Go To [URL="http://findaperson.canada411.ca/"]Canada411.Ca[/URL]
Find someone with a common last name in either Ontario or Quebec province.
Step 2: Get Address
Pick one of these real addresses and phone numbers as your gaming account information.
Step 3: Signup at findnot.com
Findnot.com is a ip redirecting service that will forward your US ip address through Canadian servers located at Ontario and Quebec.
Step 4: Install findnot software
Now whenever you are going to log into your favourite poker site, you will first need to connect to one of findnot's Canadian servers. The servers are fast and you will hardly notice the difference.
Step 5: Signup With Neteller, Click2pay, Epassporte Or Citadel
Sign up at the sites using your real name and the Canadian address that you came up with. Most poker site do not bother with verifying your information, so as long as it appears legit you are golden. The US Internet Gambling Enforcement Act makes it illegal for online gambling sites to accept electronic fund transfers, however, you are free to deposit money from your bank or credit card into a third party pay site in this case Neteller, Click2pay, Epassporte or Citadel. - objc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50Oh man, that's some sweet HTML. Just look at the source for the page.
Eight lines down from the closing style tag, our good government HTML jockey wrapped six non-breakable spaces in six separate paragraphs.. - lozaning, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34yep
- jonesin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36Don't these ***** have anything better to do?
- phej, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32> ...I just can't get up the same righteous anger about the long-lost Constitutional right to gamble online. Sure it might be a futile policy, but you can't be serious that losing the "freedom" to gamble online is somehow akin to losing a free press or a secular state.
It all starts somewhere and once they take away the right to gamble online, they'll come after something else and they'll keep coming wanting to take away more - in the name of national security or capitalism protection. And for each right we lose there are people saying "big deal it's only 'x'", because they fail to see the big picture - that your government is taking away all of your rights, one by one and it's in small enough segments that no one complains. - purpleacid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28view source.
ip whois on 149.101.1.51
Search results for: 149.101.1.51
OrgName: US Dept of Justice
OrgID: UDJ
Address: P.O. Box 59110
City: Potomac
StateProv: MD
PostalCode: 20859
Country: US
NetRange: 149.101.0.0 - 149.101.255.255
CIDR: 149.101.0.0/16
NetName: USDOJ
NetHandle: NET-149-101-0-0-1
Parent: NET-149-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: JUSTICE2.USDOJ.GOV
NameServer: NS22.USDOJ.GOV
Comment:
RegDate: 1994-12-02
Updated: 2002-06-05
RTechHandle: ZU85-ARIN
RTechName: U.S. Department of Justice
RTechPhone: +1-202-305-2862
RTechEmail: EMWS@usdoj.gov
OrgTechHandle: EXJ-ARIN
OrgTechName: JMD-STS, EMWS X
OrgTechPhone: +1-202-305-2862
OrgTechEmail: EMWS@usdoj.gov
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-02-11 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
- bromac, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Yes. It's like a public flogging, without that pesky screaming. Keep that to the jailhouse.
- missinglink, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27Actually, there is no ban on poker online. There is a ban on banking institutions transfering money to poker companies online, effectively making online poker for money illegal in the US.
- tmickpoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Long live the government ban on gambling. Long live the state lotto!!!
Wait.......Perhaps the state is simply trying to use force to maximize its profits....Yeah capitalism!!!!
Oh wait.......that isn't anything close to capitalism. - bromac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Yes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Not to mention they set width and height values for their images that aren't even the images' actual dimensions, so the images look squished.
- Disodium, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19yes they do
- lagrange, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16You have got to me kidding me, they are spending my money chasing down people who want to play cards for money?
This is a ***** joke right? - slasherx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I will bet this is fine for just simple cash games and what not, but should you ever happen to win a WSOP satellite or something that actually requires your address, they will nail you. So take this advice very carefully should you ever win any prizes from the poker site.
- supermanred, on 10/12/2007, -13/+27More like Canada was forced to help control what Americans do. The United States is losing ALL its freedoms. I am sorry that in this little way the Canadian government helped out your evil government.
Hope you guys get you freedom back soon. - sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17I guess they nabbed the designer too!
- raid517, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17There's a bit more to it. A lot of Las Vegas Casino owners wanted online gambling shut down too because it was threatening their business model. These companies are a powerful political lobby in the US and are responsible for lining many politicians pockets. So naturally when the Casino bosses asked the government to shut down on-line gambling, the government literally fell over themselves to oblige.
Of course the painted it up as some kind of lame moral crusade against gambling (think of the children!) but they clearly have no problem with every other form of gambling - just the gambling that affects their paymasters most. - littleguru1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Wow. This is lame... You can't play poker online, but host the biggest casinos in the world... Weird.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19"Current online poker ban"?!
There is no online poker ban. They must have been shut down for some other reason. - burningmonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yeah, they would. And they do. I remember when isonews got busted oh so many years ago, the FBI also put up a gaudy looking victory page.
- TimRogers, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I fee like I just wasted 10 seconds of my life.
- lord2800, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Looks like *****. Hire a real web designer/developer.
- hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Looks like spam. Treated as such.
- groovechamp30, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The ban was because the American government saw all the London listed online gambling firms making lots of money, so the protectionist nazis in the Whitehouse "banned" it. Itll be back, just with American companies making the money. Makes me sick.
- slayerboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Online gambling is no worse than driving to a casino and wasting money....so stupid for the gov to waste money on stuff like this!
- 35263526, on 10/12/2007, -16/+25Freedom isn't freedom if it has restrictions, no matter how insignificant those restrictions are.
- hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"With online gambling, people can do it in their bathrobes!" :O
- Doggpound, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I grow to hate the United States more and more each day. It is actually becoming embarrassing to be an American.
- dmolsen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@phej
It'll be done in the name of 'morals'. Think of the kids people. - stephenwq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Since they seem to keep the domain, i wonder what the monthly cost would be for all of those shut down domains...
- straxus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"no you don't; you become the nerd that fixed her computer"
That's funny. I'd never quite thought of it until just now, but 2 years ago I upgraded a video card for someone so she could play The Sims 2. That was our first interaction outside of work. Today at lunch we discussed (among other things) where we'd like to honeymoon. - Squigly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Wait...There's a US ban on online gambling? I guess I'm a little behind the times. Could someone link me to said ban?
- muvment256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8FYI: This isn't about morals. This is about lost tax revenue to international sites. It will only be a matter of time before they will allow established casinos in the US to create online gambling sites.
- hmemcpy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Well, at least they don't create their red page in Frontpage anymore. If anyone remembers the ugly "Elite Torrents" shutdown page code...
- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Actually, there was a vote. Your representatives voted on it. If you don't like it, you better have voted in THAT election. Otherwise you have no reason to whine.
I too disagree with the law, but it is there. - Chordonblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Oh, you mean you don't want the law enforcement officials we pay to defend the law to actually DEFEND the law? I don't like the law either, but the last thing we need is the FBI interpreting it for themselves."
Oh, I dunno - I would think that the spam problem is a FAR greater issue right now - what's being done about that? Seems to me their resouces must be stretched pretty thin judging from the amount of spam my mail server gets. How about we concentrate on the BIGGER problem guys...
Oh, right - not enough money directly involved... - BradleyBo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Freedom isn't free. It costs folks like you and me.
- BendingClouds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6the worst part about the ban isnt the ban itself, it's how they put it into action. When congress was passing a "secure ports" bill, they attached the internet poker ban to the end of it. So even if any of the elected officials accually read it, if they were opposed to the poker ban, it seems better to secure the ports... hopefully one day criminals will be in jail, and not running our country.
- plaunie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8no you don't; you become the nerd that fixed her computer
- williamdyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@dewey
The FBI uses their resources very selectively. ***** up the career of the FBI douche who thought this was a priority is a perfectly valid way of expressing the will of the people. - Tarnum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Well, they have nothing else to do.
FBI won the wars against organized crime, terrorism, drug traffickers and corrupt politicians. All drug lords and Osama Bin Laden are in prison.
Now they have time to chase the victimless crimes like porn and gambling. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Yes, Bush and the godly republicans decided that poker players are Evildoers.
- DooM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ePassporte will work just fine with an American address and most sites will cut you a check directly if you want to withdraw your winnings. It's a silly law and it isn't enforceable in any meaningful way in a world where you can transfer money across the globe while sitting on your couch.
- uglymike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yes they would
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why the hideous red, why!?
- straxus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@broomett
Haven't you noticed? Geek is hot these days, and hardly a liability to hooking up with the ladies.
The situation may be different if you're high school age. A younger geek would have to tell me. - GrizzlyWG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Congrats straxus
God bless ya both - ucbmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Technically, the law does not ban online gambling. It bans banks and other financial institutions from accepting transactions with online gambling sites. So you can still play online poker, as long as you all ready have money deposited on their site. You're not allowed to deposit more money, or cash out any of your money, but you are allowed to still play. So sites like this are shutdown because they allow you to transfer money to the gambling sites.
- missinglink, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My guess is that this site got shut down for encouraging identity theft. "Find someone with a common last name in either Ontario or Quebec province." It's probably a bad idea to encourage people to lie about their location and citizenship, especially with regard to the transfer of money and gambling. I imagine that the online poker companies have as much problem with this as the FBI - makes collections difficult on the back end.
- gr00vy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Everything you wanted to know about the poker ban...
http://www.ncalg.org/Library/internet/IG%20Law%20booklet.pdf -
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