Your contingency plans in case of legal troubles?
There are no brighline legal rules about online poker anymore. While we know most of the focus is on sportsbetting, we also know the DOJ will probably not stop there. So what are some of the things US-based webmasters can do?
Here are a couple of possible plans:
1. Shutting down the website or selling it to a foreign marketing firm. This seems a bit drastic to me.
2. Stop all online poker advertising.
3. Stop all revenue-sharing online poker advertising and focus only on click-through or per sign up deals. I am no legal expert, but I remember reading somewhere that if you share in the revenue, you are more likely to get prosecuted. And, of course, no more sponsoring freerolls.
4. Keep running website as is, but run verification box requiring users to "verify" that they are not in the US, and that if they are from the US, they can only use the information on your website for "educational and entertainment" purposes. Again, I'm no lawyer, so don't know how well this works.
5. Transfer all domain registration and domain hosting offshore, but continue to live in America and run the website remotely.
6. Same as 5, but actually move out of America and to a country that has legalized online poker/gambling.
Am I missing any options? What do you guys think is the best route?
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