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<blockquote data-quote="Bardsandsages" data-source="post: 3428620" data-attributes="member: 28771"><p>Actually, many of the laws regarding this go back to the old Publishers' Clearinghouse days.&nbsp; Not to get into a big legal dissertation, but PCH was found guilty of fraud because of the way it promoted it's contests.&nbsp; The laws were put on the books in many states for consumer protection.&nbsp; Obviously, I don't believe for one second YGN plans on committing any fraud, and that was never my implication.&nbsp; But there are times when you pick and chose your battles, and something like this can be easily tweeked in order to insure legality, which is always better than deciding you don't like a law and therefore don't have to follow it.&nbsp; I don't disagree that there are some pretty stupid laws on the books (Anyone familiar with Sarbanes-Oxley?&nbsp; I am.&nbsp; It is the bane of my life!).&nbsp; But as stupid as SarBox is, we still follow it because if we get hit with a spot audit and get caught NOT following it, the U.S. government isn't going to accept &quot;well, we thought it was a stupid law&quot; as a defense.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Bardsandsages, post: 3428620, member: 28771"] Actually, many of the laws regarding this go back to the old Publishers' Clearinghouse days. Not to get into a big legal dissertation, but PCH was found guilty of fraud because of the way it promoted it's contests. The laws were put on the books in many states for consumer protection. Obviously, I don't believe for one second YGN plans on committing any fraud, and that was never my implication. But there are times when you pick and chose your battles, and something like this can be easily tweeked in order to insure legality, which is always better than deciding you don't like a law and therefore don't have to follow it. I don't disagree that there are some pretty stupid laws on the books (Anyone familiar with Sarbanes-Oxley? I am. It is the bane of my life!). But as stupid as SarBox is, we still follow it because if we get hit with a spot audit and get caught NOT following it, the U.S. government isn't going to accept "well, we thought it was a stupid law" as a defense. [/QUOTE]

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