Well, that is pretty pathetic. Browsing to a site has an amplification value of 1 from a Dados perspective and billion dollar company shouldn't be taken out by that. Disney IT is garbage but that is bad. Adjusting for registration surges is a kindergarten maneuver. I guess they could have surged systems without surging bandwidth but, again, they aren't some mom and pop shop.
A chance to get to pay to registerr has no actual value. You can't really resell it since it is time limited and who would pay for it in the current parameters? You have a better chance of lunching on the moon tomorrow than not having that lawsuit laughed out of court.
If the outcome of the draw of the lottery has no value why would anybody pay for it once the draw has been made? Under Florida law, it doesn't have to be a cash value for it to be considered something of value and for the law to apply. Who pays cash for something that has no kind of value anyway?
As far as I am aware runDisney does not have a gambling license in Florida. They may not run any form of raffle or lottery.
When we were all in the entry process we were all given a number visible on the screen. If that's a number for a place in a virtual line fair enough, but if it's a number for a lucky draw that's gambling. As we know that people were able to arrive late and get short or even zero wait times we know it wasn't a line. That only leaves one option.
This wouldn't be to bring any particular lawsuit against runDisney (although they may want to take a real hard look at the New York Marathon Lottery case) but it might make them much more transparent about what they do when people enter the waiting process for entry to an event.
If someone did take this to court, nobody would be laughing except the lawyers (on both sides).
Who wouldn't like the whole process to be more open and transparent? If it is just a line then there is no need for people to have multiple open browsers on multiple computers, your place in line is shown on your screen, and opening a second browser will always give you a later place in line so there would be no point. Wouldn't this make the website much less likely to crash?
What would be more expensive for runDisney, to pay annually for a Florida gambling license, or to fix their race entry system?