Seriously? Dikshit?

No further comment, m'lud.

That is a most unfortunate name!

doesn't matter if your name is dickshit or dipshit, if you've got the billions then the joke is most definitely on everyone else but you!

Seriously a name that silly has to be made up and if it is, then it is bordering on the unprintably offensive and you should be ashamed.

Next thing you know, the kids on the playground will be calling each other "Dan Goodin" just because those clever diks at The Register managed to slip it past the censors. God forbid that there is actually some poor girl who has to bear the name "Dan Goodin". If she wasn't already mortally embarrassed she certainly is now.

Regardless, we are all diminished by your clumsy wit. Dangoodin to you, you thrice-blighted, marmot-worrying, axminsterophilic, clan of raging dangoodinites!

Yeah really, what kind of name is that? Dutch or something?

I like the $250,000 fine they throw on there, after paying $300,000,000 8-). (Well, actually I don't, I don't think online gambling should be illegal. But anyway.)

Did someone miss a 'c' when typing the article up?

Paris, because... well, that's really self-explanatory.

Well, Dunno about D**Shit, but Sh**ForBrains - definitely. Only a mentally deficient person will try to enter the USA after doing something which yanks classify as a federal offence. He is getting whatever Christmas he asked for.

dikshit???

sounds wrong man.just wrong

Dikshit, what about the judge! Surely that's got to be a spoonerism :)

this is made up right? <checks date>

When I lived in Gibraltar (correct spelling) I met him, he's a nice chap and he doesn't need to worry about people laughing.

He (well did) has a lot of money and has his own plane......

Always thought these laws were there to protect the US gambling companies not the US citizens...

'Nuff said.

And his co-conspirator is called Ruth Parasol. Which I suppose is handy when there's shit flying.

(Freudian aside:- when I first typed his name, it came out as 'Diskshit'. The article I was reading before this one was about IBM. I don't know if that means anything.)

Could''ve used some of his money to change his name. Or at least spell it differently - Dixit - like the actress - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikshit

A name purportedly given to descendants of Alexander the Great's army - also someone notable for getting 'xit' on his dick.

Well done USA, land of the free, where you can't even gamble online.

Because those gambling dollars are only good when they flow into Vegas.

I bet his teachers were always calling him in class to riotous laughter from the others.

IT? becasue it's in his name.

Why the hell did he think it was a good idea to land in the USA after doing something high-profile and illegal there? If he was a John Smith, he might have gotten away with it but Dikshit? Like the Feds were gonna miss that one. Idiot.

<~~ Because...

fine millions. Massive profit. Zero deterrence. That's the real crime here.

and for you wankers going off about protectionism-we've sacrificed our industries, our technologies to allow your economies to benefit, gave you billions in tariff-free trade for decades while paying your tariffs and pricing ourselves out of your markets. Blow it out your arse.

Funny how eurotrash bitch about people using the internet to avoid VAT and other taxes, using the internet to commit acts that are illegal in Europe, but America, we're not supposed to enforce our own laws and must allow every bit of sewage the world wants to send in across the internet, or we're "bullies".

We'll make you a deal. We'll allow your unregulated, unmonitored international money laundering (gambling) and you allow all your repressed citizens to mail order all the guns they want.

I believe he was caught while visiting in the states. So he actually did himself in.

300m on Billions? Not a bad way to get out of a sticky situation.

Its not an issue of "protectionism" since US corps can't do online gaming themselves. Its a case of the "Moral Majority" (which is a minority) has influenced government policy which is akin to prohibition.

This is where your country has got it so very wrong. Anyone who hasn't (yet) murdered anyone can walk into a shop and buy an M16 assault rifle _yet_ having a game of cards over the internet is illegal!

Do you really think that guns can protect you from an oppressive government when you don't even have the freedom to gamble _your_ money and half the time you can't get into a bar without an ID card? I'm living in New York (temporary, can't be helped!) which is one of your more liberal cities, and I'm telling you now you are not even nearly as free as us 'eurotrash'.

What is more, you _are_ bullies as the entire rest of the world will attest. You no doubt will disagree or claim you have a god given right to do what you want internationally, whatever, I'm just telling it how the other 94.9% of the world sees it.

And don't give me this "we've sacrificed our industries, our technologies to allow your economies to benefit" rubbish, no you fucking haven't! Nobody made you buy any of 'our' stuff, or don't they teach you about capitalism in American schools?!

People pay what a thing is worth to them. You benefit from receiving goods just as I benefit from selling them and vice versa. It doesn't matter two shits to you if 'we' double tariffs or half them, the only people we could harm in anything approximating a free market would be ourselves. Honestly it's not 1750 anymore, we don't have an empire or a monopoly on shipping or cotton or slaves so, for as long as you or I have been alive we have both had the same 3 options...

1) Pay the asking price

2) Don't buy the stuff

3) Turn to any other number of suppliers.

Now please explain in detail how that equates to you sacrificing dick all?! If your economies in the shit it's YOU OWN FAULT buddy. Honestly, making out it's down to your sheer altruism? The vanity!

Roger.

PS: Anonymous coward - quite.