I'm not sure how I feel about the precedent Carbon is setting. Basically they are saying, "If you give us enough problems, we'll leave you alone." That would be incredible motivation for the DOJ to simply say officially "We are going after any Merge network that decides to accept new U.S. players."

Makes sense on Merge's part though. There is no reason to run the risk of one little state being obnoxious if you can get the rest of the states anyways.