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Daily Sports - Legal Political Happenings (1 Viewer)

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DraftKings and FanDuel are no longer under the radar.

They are growing rapidly, spending heavily on advertising, branching off to include every sport you can think of.

For sure there will be issues and challenges coming up for this industry.

Thought it might make sense to have a thread to discuss any legal or political issues that are happening with Daily Sports.

 
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One thing I noticed, seems like last year there were only 2 states you couldn't play daily in? This year there are 5 states that don't allow it?

 
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JimmyJabroni said:
One thing I noticed, seems like last year there were only 2 states you couldn't play daily in? This year there are 5 states that don't allow it?
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I'm about 95% certain that there were previously 4 states where DFS was not allowed (since the inception of DFS).

Recently, Michigan made DFS illegal, which brought it to 5 states; that decision appears to have been promoted by casinos in Michigan that lobbied to have DFS made illegal because they felt it was affecting their business. I think the battle there is far from over...

In Massachusetts, I'd be floored if AG Healey found anything awry with DraftKings. DK is based in Boston, employs hundreds of people, and is financially tied into an array of entities, including professional sports teams; if she were to kill DK, she would disenfranchise too many people in the process and kill her own political career in the process. Of all the states, MA is not the one I'd be worried about.

 
John Lee said:
JimmyJabroni said:
One thing I noticed, seems like last year there were only 2 states you couldn't play daily in? This year there are 5 states that don't allow it?
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I'm about 95% certain that there were previously 4 states where DFS was not allowed (since the inception of DFS).

Recently, Michigan made DFS illegal, which brought it to 5 states; that decision appears to have been promoted by casinos in Michigan that lobbied to have DFS made illegal because they felt it was affecting their business. I think the battle there is far from over...

In Massachusetts, I'd be floored if AG Healey found anything awry with DraftKings. DK is based in Boston, employs hundreds of people, and is financially tied into an array of entities, including professional sports teams; if she were to kill DK, she would disenfranchise too many people in the process and kill her own political career in the process. Of all the states, MA is not the one I'd be worried about.
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Michigan gaming board director declared daily FF illegal but whether attorney general would prosecute players or sites is unclear. Also there is currently a bill in the Michigan house which would declare daily FF a game of skill and thus remove it from the authority of the gaming commission completely. All four Michigan pro sports teams have either DK or FD as a sponser so at this point it seems unlikely either site would pull out of Michigan unless there is actual threats of prosecution.

 
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jandyt said:
John Lee said:
JimmyJabroni said:
One thing I noticed, seems like last year there were only 2 states you couldn't play daily in? This year there are 5 states that don't allow it?
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I'm about 95% certain that there were previously 4 states where DFS was not allowed (since the inception of DFS).

Recently, Michigan made DFS illegal, which brought it to 5 states; that decision appears to have been promoted by casinos in Michigan that lobbied to have DFS made illegal because they felt it was affecting their business. I think the battle there is far from over...

In Massachusetts, I'd be floored if AG Healey found anything awry with DraftKings. DK is based in Boston, employs hundreds of people, and is financially tied into an array of entities, including professional sports teams; if she were to kill DK, she would disenfranchise too many people in the process and kill her own political career in the process. Of all the states, MA is not the one I'd be worried about.
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Michigan gaming board director declared daily FF illegal but whether attorney general would prosecute players or sites is unclear. Also there is currently a bill in the Michigan house which would declare daily FF a game of skill and thus remove it from the authority of the gaming commission completely. All four Michigan pro sports teams have either DK or FD as a sponser so at this point it seems unlikely either site would pull out of Michigan unless there is actual threats of prosecution.
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Michigan has been bought off by the casino industry for over a decade now. They slammed the door on race track run casinos and they will continue to stop any other threats to their bought and paid for domain.

 
They aren't playing it very smart if they aren't trying to kill the golden goose here. Their television ads are borderline predatory to the extent that I'm sort of embarrassed that I play on the site.

Some political figure is sure to take those ads as some kind of challenge to crusade against and make a name for themselves. Politicians always want to regulate more things too, because the way you get financial political contributions from industries in today's national politics are by regulating that industry. If the industry isn't regulated, political donations aren't necessary,

If Fanduel and Draftkings had any brains they would be flying under the radar and not engaging in any questionable or unethical business practices whatsoever - that is if the current executives aren't just constructing themselves the most expensive possible golden parachute.

 
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jandyt said:
John Lee said:
JimmyJabroni said:
One thing I noticed, seems like last year there were only 2 states you couldn't play daily in? This year there are 5 states that don't allow it?
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I'm about 95% certain that there were previously 4 states where DFS was not allowed (since the inception of DFS).

Recently, Michigan made DFS illegal, which brought it to 5 states; that decision appears to have been promoted by casinos in Michigan that lobbied to have DFS made illegal because they felt it was affecting their business. I think the battle there is far from over...

In Massachusetts, I'd be floored if AG Healey found anything awry with DraftKings. DK is based in Boston, employs hundreds of people, and is financially tied into an array of entities, including professional sports teams; if she were to kill DK, she would disenfranchise too many people in the process and kill her own political career in the process. Of all the states, MA is not the one I'd be worried about.
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Michigan gaming board director declared daily FF illegal but whether attorney general would prosecute players or sites is unclear. Also there is currently a bill in the Michigan house which would declare daily FF a game of skill and thus remove it from the authority of the gaming commission completely. All four Michigan pro sports teams have either DK or FD as a sponser so at this point it seems unlikely either site would pull out of Michigan unless there is actual threats of prosecution.
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Illegal in michigan?? Damn

 
Tennessee_ATO said:
Chaos Commish said:
Pierre Garcon files class action against Fan Duel on behalf of NFL players.
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Good luck with that one, Pierre.
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I think he has a chance, slim but has one.

The MLB issue (the precedent most discuss) didn't allow for fantasy sites to feature players likenesses in commercials. I don't even think it mentioned commercials.

My understanding has always been if you want to advertise with a player's pic you either gotta contact the agent or the NFLPA and give them some $.

I grabbed a few fantasy rags I have laying around, I googled FF commercials...that's about how the industry behaves.

As I understand his class action involves many players and many weren't featured in their commercials. 5-20 likenesses? How many? Those players might have a case here.

The commercials with the player heads I don't notice all the time. It seems FDs least advertised one.

What I think makes this go away though is this-

Suppose Pierre gets 5k per commercial with his likeness(pic not acting, just his pic). Suppose Pierre says he saw it 20 times. FD could pay a lawyer 100k retainer and thousands after that or just give Pierre 100k(20 *5).

Someone cries no it was run this many times and...too late they already settled.

If Pierre thinks of this ahead of time, does he have the means to get this data? FD is surely not ponying it up and the advertiser that gets millions from FD might not be so inclined to anger them either.

In the end, FD will do the same as DK and get agreements with players associations which, sadly, gets Pierre even less $ next year.

 
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