[HatchedLake721]

> They can fine all they want, if the company doesn't have any entity in said territory they can just ignore it.

Try running an online poker site abroad and serve US players and find out how that'll work out for you.

Didn't work out well for Lithuanian/Canadian/Israeli Isai Scheinberg founder of Poker Stars, nor Calvin Ayre, the founder of the Bodog, who ended up on the FBI's top 10 list. United States reportedly sought* to seize around $3 billion worth of assets from 3 major online poker companies at the time.

https://poker.stackexchange.com/questions/457/is-online-poke...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg

[iamnothere]

This is the UK we’re talking about, not the US. Watch out, they might send you a strongly worded email, then they’ll follow it up with a D-notice to prevent the media from telling everyone how you embarrassed them.

[IAmBroom]

You're missing the point. If the US has legal* authority to seize those assets, then by definition the corporation had assets in the US jurisdiction.

* Stop laughing. It's a hypothetical, wherein the US government only does internally lawful acts.