Isn't the general attitude these days to just break laws and bribe officials once you own the hottest startup? /s
edit: re. the /s
I was living offshore and running the most popular bitcoin casino at the time, spending a vast amount of money and energy to block any player who might be American. As a result I didn't make that much money. And I tried to calculate how much I would need to make if I wanted to break the law and hide out forever. I figured I could make $10-15M a year but that wouldn't be enough to hide. I fucked up, I guess. Because the richest man in the world made most of his first round of money facilitating gambling transactions, and he's now got his snout in every federal agency. I should have had the balls, I guess, to ask forgiveness rather than permission.
This was always like this. Youtube started publishing mostly copyrighted content, then Google settled with copyright owners. Google by the way has perfected the "art" of training their algos with content without approval from copyright owners.
edit: re. the /s I was living offshore and running the most popular bitcoin casino at the time, spending a vast amount of money and energy to block any player who might be American. As a result I didn't make that much money. And I tried to calculate how much I would need to make if I wanted to break the law and hide out forever. I figured I could make $10-15M a year but that wouldn't be enough to hide. I fucked up, I guess. Because the richest man in the world made most of his first round of money facilitating gambling transactions, and he's now got his snout in every federal agency. I should have had the balls, I guess, to ask forgiveness rather than permission.