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Comment by tantalor

3 hours ago

> MoviePass announced that it will begin testing a betting platform.

Huh. That's interesting. Given futures markets on box office receipts are illegal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

Matt Levine discussed this a couple of weeks back: "It’s probably fine, though; you can bet on Netflix streaming numbers or Rotten Tomatoes scores. It is fun to think that everything is gambling except onions and movies, but it’s probably not true."