FanDuel in legal trouble with GT

With ESPN and the NFL going hard on "daily fantasy" and Draft Kings sponsoring everything they own, I don't imagine any lawsuits against them going very far very fast. Don't anger the Disney empire.
 
A gazillion dollars on advertising, but used a picture without permission.

Amateurs.
 
I'm firmly in the camp that says this is good publicity. Actually maybe not because if you don't know who they are you would not have any ability to associate that pic with anyone in particular.

No story here. But their days of legality are numbered I'm pretty sure. And I for one am getting sick of seeing their ads everywhere.
 
coit said:
I'm firmly in the camp that says this is good publicity. Actually maybe not because if you don't know who they are you would not have any ability to associate that pic with anyone in particular.

No story here. But their days of legality are numbered I'm pretty sure. And I for one am getting sick of seeing their ads everywhere.
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I'll take their ads over Subaru, Camry, and Buick 11 times out of 10.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
I'll take their ads over Subaru, Camry, and Buick 11 times out of 10.
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Their ads are just very misleading. Although I did see one of the most insulting ads of all time for one of those auction sites last night I think.

Guy telling couple how they can buy new Apple and other electronic equipment for about $10. Ugh.
 
coit said:
I'm firmly in the camp that says this is good publicity. Actually maybe not because if you don't know who they are you would not have any ability to associate that pic with anyone in particular.

No story here. But their days of legality are numbered I'm pretty sure. And I for one am getting sick of seeing their ads everywhere.
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I am enough of a sucker to have signed up on DraftKings. I've only lost 4 bucks so far. Funny that online poker is considered gambling, but online fantasy football is considered a "skill" game, when pretty much the opposite is true.
 
coit said:
Their ads are just very misleading. Although I did see one of the most insulting ads of all time for one of those auction sites last night I think.

Guy telling couple how they can buy new Apple and other electronic equipment for about $10. Ugh.
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Beezid and those other penny auction sites have an enormously great business model / scam. I've been tempted to see if I can build a bot to snipe those auctions. I'll bet there are already many others out there doing it, though.
 
smokey_wasp said:
I am enough of a sucker to have signed up on DraftKings. I've only lost 4 bucks so far. Funny that online poker is considered gambling, but online fantasy football is considered a "skill" game, when pretty much the opposite is true.
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Exactomundo.

I would believe that FF draft sides can be considered a game of skill except for the fact that bad days, injuries, and other random sorts of things can come into play. Poker played correctly is far less random.
 
smokey_wasp said:
Funny that online poker is considered gambling, but online fantasy football is considered a "skill" game, when pretty much the opposite is true.
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This.

Also was baffled that DKs is a carbon copy of the online poker client model (large tournamenets, qualifiers, sit n gos, heads up, double up). The basically lifted everything from OLP and manage to get it legalized (with heavier rakes and terrible payout structures).
 
As someone who regularly doesn't profit from other peoples likenesses... I am more amused by the novelty of the picture than anything else. Someone has really good eyes and is very nit picky. I am guessing that someone at DK is a Tech fan. That's a really obscure thing to have floating around as an image.
 
The first time I heard about stuff like DraftKings and FanDuel, I immediately thought "That won't last long." But I'm guessing that they're going to make out pretty good with what they must be raking in through this commercial assault, regardless of when/if they get shut down.

ThisIsAtlanta said:
Buick
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That's not a Buick.
 
man we biatch so much about our uniforms but apparently someone out there thinks they are cool
 
Wait, so is there any way this ends up resulting in a fight between Disney and the NCAA? That, I would pay good money to see.
 
That poster is still hanging up in my man cave. Terrible season. But I kinda like the poster.
 
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