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Archive for the ‘Gambling’ Category

French court orders ISPs to block gambling site: “A French court has told internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to a gambling site that is operated out of Gibraltar and does not have a licence to operate in France, according to news agency Agence France Presse (AFP).“

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe: “

Money laundering with a poker face

The security services are running 23 ongoing investigations into the exploitation of gambling websites to finance terrorism.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

EU court upholds national restrictions against online gambling(EUOBSERVER)
The EU’s top court ruled that national governments can uphold domestic restrictions on online gambling and ban foreign websites if the intention is to stop fraud and crime. In a case brought by Austrian online betting provider Bwin against the Portuguese state lottery, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the state monopoly’s restrictions ‘may be regarded as justified by the objective of combating fraud and crime. The ruling is a setback for online gambling groups, which have been pushing for an EU-wide open market in this field.

(Via QuickLinks Update.)

Minnesota orders ISPs to blacklist gambling sites: “

The state of Minnesota has handed Internet providers a 7-page blacklist (PDF) of gambling Web sites that they’re supposed to prevent customers from accessing, a move that raises First Amendment and technical concerns.

‘We are putting site operators and Minnesota online gamblers on notice and in advance,’ said John …

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(Via The Iconoclast.)

Online gambling safe from EU regulation: “The European Parliament has rejected calls for community-wide regulation of online gambling saying it is a job for individual countries.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

As US Looks To Re-legalize Online Poker, Germany Bans It: “Just as the US seems to be moving forward with efforts to relegalize online poker, it appears that Germany is moving in the opposite direction, passing a law to ban online poker — even to the point of allowing German authorities to put online poker players in jail (though, no one seems to think that’s likely to happen).

(Via Techdirt.)

Congress still afraid to define ‘internet gambling’: “

Whatever it is. It’s illegal

The intellectual haze that envelopes American internet gambling policy thickened the past week, as lawmakers failed to define what exactly constitutes ‘unlawful’ internet gambling. As absurd as it sounds, two years after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), Congress still can’t make up its collective mind as to what behavior the law is intended to cover.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)