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Re:YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site by whymauri on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:55AM (#18824881)
TmarTn had a crazy good lawyer on that case. The defense was

1) CSGO Lotto was never a gambling site to begin with because you could play for free simply by emailing support, akin to McDonalds Monopoly [0]

2) It was public knowledge that the owners of the corporation were TmarTn and Syndicate.

[0] www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2017/12/18/16782124/csgo-lotto-lawsuit-gambling-terms-of-use-tmartn

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Re:YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site by gizmo385 on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:20PM (#18825737)
> It was public knowledge that the owners of the corporation were TmarTn and Syndicate.

So was the argument here that they expected children and teenagers who were primarily consuming their content to look up the public ownership records of CSGO Lotto? Since they weren't particularly open about their ownership in the videos that they advertised the site in.

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Re:YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site by whymauri on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:54PM (#18827115)
Unironically, it seems so. As disingeneous as it sounds. Pretty horrible people all around.
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Re:YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site by xingped on Friday January 04, 2019 @02:26PM (#18826913)
Regarding #1, okay I actually have to clap and give them a "well done" for that one.
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