US online gambling ban is unfair
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The US government&#39;s ban on cross-border gambling is an unfair trade barrier against the island nation of Antigua, the World Trade Organization said.
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Online gaming group 888 Plc said on Monday it would stop doing business with U.S. customers after legislation was passed there aimed at preventing gambling over the Internet.
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The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled Wednesday that the United States&#39; prohibition on cross-border gambling on the internet violated free trading agreements.
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European online gambling companies on Thursday accused the U.S. Justice Department of violating World Trade Organization rules by singling out foreign online gambling companies for prosecution.
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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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By Matt Richtel and Thomas Crampton  Al Baker contributed reporting. *  Broadening the U.S. attack on Internet gambling, law enforcement agents in New York have arrested the chairman of Sportingbet, which offers online sports betting and is traded on the London Stock Exchange.
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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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A federal Internet gambling ban poses threats to lawful gaming online and must be amended right away, they argue in a Capitol Hill lobbying blitz.
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Gambling is not sexy, especially for the socially inept The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered the firm behind Poker.com to stop advertising online gambling as likely to get you laid.â¦
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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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European online gambling companies  on Thursday accused the U.S. Justice Department of violating  World Trade Organization rules by singling out foreign online  gambling companies for prosecution.
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Online Gambling : Affiliate Party&#8217;s Over Last weekend the US Congress passed a bill which will outlaw Internet gambling in the United States. The new law will ensure that gamblers who try to enter online gambling sites from American IP addresses will be blocked and that the online gambling companies can no longer accept bets placed [...]
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Filtering out rogue operators Online gambling operators outside Europe will have to seek Government permission to advertise in the UK. The British government's reform of gambling law mandates the seeking of permission in an attempt to crack down on rogue operators.â¦
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The United States vowed Wednesday to defend its ban on cross-border Internet gambling by appealing a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling that favored the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua.
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A trade dispute filed by Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation with dozens of online casinos, challenges Washingtonâs effort to prohibit online gambling.
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The House passed legislation Tuesday that would prevent gamblers from using credit cards to bet online and could block access to gambling Web sites.
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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.