Could UIGEA Be Reversed? Part III of III

So now the US and the WTO should start negotiations, although it does not look as though the US is willing to do so. But they must do something or the US will start looking at trade sanctions from the WTO. Congress must abide by their ruling and either ban all internet gambling, or none of it. Now, some people might think that if they put trade sanctions on the US so that we cannot get our goods into Antigua without paying high tariffs, but there are much worse things that can happen as a result of this.

For example, the WTO can grant Antigua the right to ignore all US copyright and patent laws. Think about that one a moment. That means that copyrights and patents would not mean anything – that means that Bill Gates won’t have the right to sue them when they start copying Microsoft programs and selling them for a fraction of the cost. What about Disney? What about the little guy just trying to make his way and his idea being patented is the only thing he has? Don’t laugh, the WTO has done it before and will do it again.

With the US economy so dependent on their intellectual property, this could have a huge effect on how the government handles the problem. They could literally bankrupt or at the very least severely handicap many of our major industries, just because they don’t want to allow online gambling. Our government is going to have to legalize online internet gambling again, because no one in the US, especially the horse racing industry, is going to allow these sanctions to happen - and they aren’t going to allow them to make internet gambling completely illegal.

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