Topic: Legality of Polimedia/MPOE/MPEX/BitBet (Read 2642 times)

Now please understand that I do think that govts are slowly becoming the biggest mobs in the world and we the people should start saying no. You're doing it by operating under the radar via Bitcoin and all my kudos to you, but I would recommend you to hide your tracks better or the bureaucratic machinery will take you down.

What exactly would be the link between these things, other than you?

Website : BitBet.us
Owner : Matic "kakobrekla" Kočevar and Mircea "mircea_popescu" Popescu

Website : You're on it.
Owner : Mircea Popescu

Domain Name:                                 MPEX.CO
Domain ID:                                   D39381757-CO
Registrar-Reseller Name:                     Name Services
Registrar-Reseller URL:                      www.nameservices.co
Sponsoring Registrar:                        ENOM, INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:                48
Registrar URL (registration services):       www.enom.com
Domain Status:                               clientTransferProhibited
Registrant ID:                               AC44353FE543DA2B
Registrant Name:                             Mircea Popescu
Registrant Organization:                     SC Polimedia SRL
Registrant Address1:                         Dunarea, 13
Registrant City:                             Giroc
Registrant State/Province:                   Timis
Registrant Postal Code:                      307220
Registrant Country:                          Romania
Registrant Country Code:                     RO
Registrant Phone Number:                     +1.0731076827
Registrant Facsimile Number:                 +1.5555555555
Registrant Email:                            [email protected]
Administrative Contact ID:                   AC44353FE543DA2B
Administrative Contact Name:                 Mircea Popescu
Administrative Contact Organization:         SC Polimedia SRL
Administrative Contact Address1:             Dunarea, 13
Administrative Contact City:                 Giroc
Administrative Contact State/Province:       Timis
Administrative Contact Postal Code:          307220
Administrative Contact Country:              Romania
Administrative Contact Country Code:         RO
Administrative Contact Phone Number:         +1.0731076827
Administrative Contact Facsimile Number:     +1.5555555555
Administrative Contact Email:                [email protected]
Billing Contact ID:                          AC44353FE543DA2B
Billing Contact Name:                        Mircea Popescu
Billing Contact Organization:                SC Polimedia SRL
Billing Contact Address1:                    Dunarea, 13
Billing Contact City:                        Giroc
Billing Contact State/Province:              Timis
Billing Contact Postal Code:                 307220
Billing Contact Country:                     Romania
Billing Contact Country Code:                RO
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Billing Contact Facsimile Number:            +1.5555555555
Billing Contact Email:                       [email protected]
Technical Contact ID:                        AC44353FE543DA2B
Technical Contact Name:                      Mircea Popescu
Technical Contact Organization:              SC Polimedia SRL
Technical Contact Address1:                  Dunarea, 13
Technical Contact City:                      Giroc
Technical Contact State/Province:            Timis
Technical Contact Postal Code:               307220
Technical Contact Country:                   Romania
Technical Contact Country Code:              RO
Technical Contact Phone Number:              +1.0731076827
Technical Contact Facsimile Number:          +1.5555555555
Technical Contact Email:                     [email protected]
Name Server:                                 NS1.POLIMEDIA.US
Name Server:                                 NS2.POLIMEDIA.US
Created by Registrar:                        ENOM, INC.
Last Updated by Registrar:                   ENOM, INC.
Domain Registration Date:                    Fri Dec 14 18:57:56 GMT 2012
Domain Expiration Date:                      Fri Dec 13 23:59:59 GMT 2013
Domain Last Updated Date:                    Wed Mar 13 00:49:23 GMT 2013

Could someone more educated in the subject weight in please?

all they need in their TOS is something like this:

Disclaimer: We are not licensed in any country but XYZ.  If your country is not XYZ and it requires a license to do X, Y or Z, then we cannot offer you this service.

In case the domain is confiscated or otherwise lost MPEx will move to a different domain, in a different jurisdiction. Should the same happen again, MPEx would move to what will at the time be a solid alternative for a free Internet, be it the TOR network, namecoin or some equivalent DNS or any comparable solution. No government will ever be able to stop the Internet, in general. We're prepared to show this in the particular.

That is a big ball of crazy, and a lot to cover. What is your question, exactly?

It is very likely that Polimedia SRL (Romanian limited liability) is breaking at bare minimum the Romanian law in three ways, there might be more and some international ones too. First there's gambling without a license (bitbet.us):


http://www.rolegal.com/romania-gambling-license.html

Secondly there's stocks/options/futures trading without a license (mpex.co):


The law itself AFAIK is only available in Romanian.

Thirdly they are not following the limitations imposed on limited liability companies in Romania (polimedia/mpex.co):


http://www.ocra.com/jurisdictions/romanian-limited-liability.asp