Gambling ads ban to be scrapped
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A ban on TV adverts for casinos, betting shops and online gambling will be scrapped under new rules.
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An eight-page pamphlet distributed by the N.B.A. to its referees before last season delineates a wide range of prohibitions against various forms of gambling.
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Shares in UK online gaming stocks lost more than half their value on Monday after U.S. Congress approved a bill to ban Internet gambling, with PartyGaming  plummeting 60 percent in early trade.
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The costs of policing a new U.S.   Internet gambling ban for banks and credit card companies will   be determined by regulators in the coming months, industry   officials said on Monday.
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PartyGaming Plc said on Tuesday it was cancelling its interim dividend following its decision to suspend all gaming business with U.S. players in the face of a ban.
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In a ruling that could open the United States to offshore Internet gambling, a World Trade Organization panel Wednesday said Washington should drop prohibitions on Americans placing bets in online casinos.
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US ban on web gambling forces company into red.
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Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under a bill that received final U.S. congressional approval early Saturday.
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(InfoWorld) - A law prohibiting U.S. financial institutions from processing payments to online gambling sites hasn't stopped U.S. employees from visiting sports betting sites, according to cybersecurity vendor ScanSafe. Attempted visits to online gambling Web sites by employees of ScanSafe's U.S. customers were up 77 percent in the week between Jan. 23 and 31. The Super Bowl, the National Football League's championship game, is Sunday. ScanSafe provides a Web-blocking service to large businesses, and it examines 6 billion Web requests a month. In October, President George Bush signed into law a measure prohibiting financial institutions from processing payments to gambling sites. The government has until mid-July to develop the processing regulations for financial institutions. But some online gambling sites have begun telling U.S. customers that financial institutions are already distancing themselves. On Wednesday, PokerRoom.com told U.S. customers to cash out. "The remaining companies that process cashouts from PokerRoom.com to our players in the United States have contacted us to say that in the near future they will no longer facilitate these transactions," said a message on PokerRoom's home page. "As such, we would advise all American players who have not cashed out already to do so immediately." The gambling provision, amended by Congress onto a ports security bill in late September, has had no impact on the number of people visiting gambling Web sites, said Dan Nadir, vice president for product strategy at ScanSafe. ScanSafe doesn't track whether those people completed bets, he said. "We suspected [the law] wouldn't have much of an impact," Nadir said. Some gambling sites will develop alternative payment mechanisms, he said. ScanSafe didn't provide the raw numbers of visits to gambling sites this past week, but gambling represented about 3.4 percent of the content it blocked for clients in 2006. By comparison, 15.1 percent of the blocked content was chat or instant messaging, 14.6 percent was advertising, 7.2 percent was Web mail, and 3.9 percent was pornography. Visits to sports betting sites such as Bodog.com were common this past week, Nadir said. About 53 percent of the U.S. visits to gambling sites ScanSafe observed this past week were to sports betting sites as opposed to casino or lottery sites. Bodog didn't immediately respond to an e-mail asking if its business has been hurt by the U.S. law. About 84 percent of ScanSafe's customers blocked employee access to gambling sites. Companies block employees from gambling sites for a couple of reasons: because they don't trust that gambling sites are safe, and because they don't want employees playing games on company time, Nadir said.
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China, the world's biggest cigarette producer and consumer, will ban all tobacco advertising by 2011, Chinese media reported on Tuesday.
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The famous TV commercials which urged viewers to "go to work on an egg" have  been banned.
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A federal Internet gambling ban poses threats to lawful gaming online and must be amended right away, players argue in a Capitol Hill lobbying blitz.
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Stranglehold promo strangled An advert for a computer game has been banned from television. The advert for Stranglehold had realistic violence, constant gunfire and condoned violence, according to ad watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).â¦
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PartyGaming Plc  dismissed a newspaper report on Wednesday that it must negotiate a new loan facility with its banks within 30 days of President Bush approving a bill to crack down on Internet gambling.
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Shares in British online gambling companies, including Sportingbet PLC and PartyGaming PLC, dived yesterday after the Congress passed legislation prohibiting the use of credit cards, checks, and electronic fund transfers for online gaming.
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Online gaming group PartyGaming Plc said  on Monday it would stop doing business with U.S. customers if  legislation passed there aimed at preventing gambling over the  Internet was signed into law.
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Government has abandoned plans for pre-9pm TV advertsing ban as part of its new anti-obesity strategy