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Since the mid-90’s, the music industry has been fighting a battle against illegal downloads – a war that it can never win. This is on the backdrop of several decades of controlling the distribution of music by ensuring pirate copies weren’t being sold at one or two notorious markets. Those halcyon days are long gone, [...]
A hot topic for many people at the moment is poker both in card rooms all over the world and pending legislation that may or may not make online poker illegal. Whilst the World Series of Poker grows every year the online poker world is in a perpetual state of uncertainty. Legislation to regulate the industry would be a huge boost to players, sites and recognised providers of rakeback. Online poker has suffered from allegations of fixing and algorithm rigging as well as the operations of unsavoury and illegal companies. Trusted rakeback poker providers would welcome regulation as this would make poker safer and prevent companies from cheating players out of their money. There are many respected rakeback providers and they will be hoping for some progress in Washington as soon as possible.
Everybody is looking for the elusive elixir of immortality…but how can we strive with no universal aim? The answer has to be in backing medical research financially, but this in itself opens up another can of worms. Does the funding that medical institutions actually go where we’d hope it would or does it simply go [...]