Re:Credit where credit is due (Score 1)

Plus, with the feds getting into the whole "you can't gamble on the intarweb", they either have to shut the virtual casinos down, or completely decouple Linden$ from the real world.

I don't live in the States.

You don't have to - the servers are there, and if the feds say "no refund or exchange of Linden$" the credit card companies will do as they're told, same as the rest of the online gambling sites.

I'd imagine that if American laws make it too difficult to do business then Linden will do the same thing the poker companies have done and just move somewhere else. They're already opening an office in the UK and are hiring developers. There's no real reason why all the servers have to be in the US, they've already indicated they're looking to build datacenters in other countries.