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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.)