Lawyer sees U.S. online gaming ban fuelling crime
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A bill to ban online gambling in the United States was drafted haphazardly and risks driving millions of gamblers underground onto unregulated websites, a former U.S. state attorney general said on Thursday.
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By Dorsey Griffith, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 21--Excessive video game playing sure can be a problem.
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Stay offline or face 18 months in jail, $10,000 fine Convicted sex offenders who used websites to help them commit their crimes are to be banned from using the internet under a tough new measure signed into New Jersey law yesterday.â¦
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A bill to ban Internet gambling  faces opposition in the U.S. Senate, but backers still hope to  win passage of it within a few weeks, a top aide to U.S. Senate  Majority Leader Bill Frist said on Thursday.
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A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Monday it will hold a hearing on Friday to look at Internet gambling, which is effectively banned in the United States.
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The World Trade Organization confirmed that a US prohibition the cross-border gaming and gambling over the Internet was illegal under global trade rules.
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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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Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its   chairman faced charges in the United States for providing   "gambling by computer," sparking fears no executive in the   $12-billion-a-year industry was safe from prosecution.
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Online gaming stocks were set to plummet at the start of Monday's session, with PartyGaming  expected to fall as much as 40 percent, after U.S. Congress approved a bill to ban Internet gambling.
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The United States has arrested  a second Internet gaming executive, adding to fears of a  crackdown on the lucrative industry and wiping over $1.5  billion off the stock market value of the UK-listed sector on  Thursday.
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High Wire Act The US Department of Justice has admitted that the 1961 Wire Act which it uses to prosecute executives of online gambling companies is "dated". The Department insists, though, that the law is sufficient for the prosecution of gambling executives.â¦
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Some banks prepare to enforce U.S. ban on online gambling, but site traffic remains strong.
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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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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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China said it would issue new rules cracking down on âundesirableâ elements of online games amid fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players soars.
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Online gaming firms faced their biggest-ever crisis on Monday after U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed legislation to ban online gaming there, threatening jobs and hitting stocks by as much as 70 percent.