"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Lifeand raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instancethat federal agents did look around in a virtual casino," Linden Lab's vicepresident Ginsu Yoon told the Reuters news agency. Linden Lab operates thephenomenally successful online service. […]
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According to Polish newspaper, The Warsaw Voice, the country is planning tointroduce regulations to license and tax online gambling. The regulationsare similar to those in Italy, signalling that European markets arecontinuing to open up doors for online gambling. Poland's decision followsthe favourable ruling for online gambling and online poker in the Placanicacase by the European […]
The Better Bingo Network has been thrilled by the publication of the annualGamCare report, delivered yesterday, after it revealed that online bingo hassome of the lowest levels of problem gambling in the online gamblingindustry. From a sample of 1,229 of GamCare's clients, a mere 0.6% said thatonline bingo was one of their most frequently used […]
FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at theinvitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S.government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling. "We haveinvited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raiseany concerns they would like, and we know of at least […]
Antigua had objected to recent US laws outlawing internet gambling. Itclaimed that the laws, which even ban gambling-related payments that takeplace outside the US's borders, broke the General Agreement on Trade inServices, a free trade multilateral agreement which underpins the WTO. TheWTO had previously ruled in favour of Antigua and Barbuda, a nation of only80,000 […]
Last year the Unlawful Online Gambling Bill looked to have made it illegalfor US Citizens to gamble online, including games like poker and at onlinecasinos. However, almost 6 months since the bill was passed there are stillpoker rooms and casinos allowing US players to play at their sites. Are theybreaking the law?Are the players breaking […]
Kaplan was indicted in June by a federal grand jury in the Eastern Districtof Missouri, the US attorney's office said in a press release. Theindictment accuses Kaplan and 10 others of engaging in racketeering,conspiracy and fraud, arising from the operation of Costa Rica-basedinternet gambling businesses, including BetOnSports.com. Following Kaplan'sarrest in the Dominican Republic, the US […]
In response to repeated complaints by online betting companies, the EuropeanCommission (EC) took action to put an end to the obstacles to sports bettingservices in Hungary, Denmark and Finland. The EC formally requested thesemember states to amend their laws following consideration of their repliesto letters of formal notice sent in April 2006, in which the […]
According to a lifestyle study conducted by the Maltese organisationAgenzija Sedqa in collaboration with the National Focal Point for Drugs andDrug Addiction and the national commission on the abuse of drugs, alcoholand other dependencies, online gambling usage is relatively low. Just under60 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 24 admitted to having playedthe lottery, […]
Online gamblers with an interest in the Eastern European nation of Polandhad reason to celebrate this week with news that the government of Poland ispreparing to license and regulate online gambling. A recent European Courtof Justice ruling in favor of British bookmakers who had been banned fromoperating in Italy without a license is expected to […]
The online gambling industry has experienced troubles in the American marketsince the passing of the Unlawful Internet gambling Enforcement Act, whichhas spurred investment firm, Citadel, to focus on gaming markets outside ofthe US. ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. (ESI), parent company of onlinegambling payment processor, Citadel Commerce, which is based in Canada, andits subsidiary, Payline, plans […]
When Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA),which forced online gambling companies to adhere to Federal and Stategambling laws, it wouldn't have been out of the ordinary to assume that thereason for the crackdown was the attempt to protect compulsive gamblers fromdescending into a morass of debt via their home computers. But, like […]
A former Merrill Lynch & Co. broker was arrested on state gambling chargesin New York, postponing his federal trial for selling access to tradinginformation broadcast over his firm's office intercom. Sign up for: GlobeHeadlines e-mail | Breaking News Alerts Timothy O'Connell, 42, of CarlePlace, N.Y., was one of 17 people charged yesterday in connection with […]
In advance of Wednesday's votes in Parliament on the geographicaldistribution of casino premises licences, The Salvation Army and theMethodist Church have re-stated their general concerns relating to increasedgambling opportunities, particularly the potentially devastating effects onthe vulnerable. 'Evidence suggests that the new casinos, the increasingpopularity of online gambling and the general drift towards the"normalisation" of gambling […]