Thursday, March 23, 2006

The Internet Gambling industry is being valued at $49 billion dollars. Gambling in any form has been very controversial since before history could document it. Certain sections of the Bible forbid gambling in any form. Gambling is legal in some parts of the United States such as Las Vegas, Nevada, Atlantic City on the East coast and on various Indian Tribal grounds spread widely across the rest of the United States. The establishments in these areas are very well regulated. With the creation of the Internet, gambling has found a way to permeate into all parts of the globe. Any computer with internet access can gamble in spite of of local laws. Internet gambling was one of the first websites created when the internet became more popular in the early 1990s. Since then it has grown in popularity at an extremely high rate. Most of the Internet gambling websites are hosted and based in foreign countries in order to avoid the laws of the United States. Since most of the websites are not based in the United States the laws used to govern each site vary greatly. Read further...