free online lotto. how legal...

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pumpi76 — Wed, 17 May 2006 07:17:19 GMT

hi Bobp, thanks very much for the advice. In fact i was thinking in starting a free online lottery, you know lottobuilder is offering to help set it up. But if you said that some indians tried and got squashed, imagine me now, it means i don't have the slightest chance....

thanks you very much, is been the nicest advice someone has given me...

pumpi76

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BobP — Wed, 17 May 2006 05:17:35 GMT

I am not a lawyer and in Florida it is a crime to discuss the law in a public forum except in most general terms if you are not a lawyer. They have us tied in knots here. The streets have the same names, but it's not our country anymore.

Anyway, the problem with free lottery games is the internet never turned out to be the sales powerhouse people expected, hence the advertising revenue never appeared to support the prizes free lotteries wanted to offer to compete with the pay to play games... [ More ]

free online lotto. how legal...

pumpi76 — Tue, 16 May 2006 23:59:28 GMT

Guys, i am curious about one thing. Is illegal to run/open a online lottery because it will then compete with the state lotto. But is not illegal to run/open a free online lotto where players view ads. But my question is, you have to set the odds of any free online lotto higher than the state ones because if you have them better than the state, you are then offering a game that people may want to play, plus is free, and the configurations is better than the state? Isn't that competing with the s... [ More ]