U.S. Ban on Ineternet Gambling Almost Here

DeluxeNames

You folks in the UK and Australia (and India) are lucky because it looks like internet gambling in the US is going the way of the dinasour. Our Congress just passed a bill that would make it very difficult for any form of internet gambling to continue operating from inside the US.

From the article:
"Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under a bill that received final U.S. congressional approval early Saturday.

The House of Representatives and Senate approved the measure and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign into law.

The bill...would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites."

My Take: I never want to run a gambling site but I think we should have the freedom to be able to (as well as the freedom to gamble online as well). I wonder if the big casinos in the US got together to push this through since online gambling was cutting into their business.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-09-30T045429Z_01_N29415181_RTRUKOC_0_US-CONGRESS-TECH-GAMBLING.xml&WTmodLoc=InternetNewsHome_C1_%5BFeed%5D-2

In reaction to this, the 2nd largest UK bookmaker, William Hill, has stopped accepting customers from the U.S.:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a7tCSVrOCCGw

daboss

why don't they focus on those damned spam companies first... i still get tons of spam in my inbox everyday...

MGDesigns

What are they going to do if these online gambling sites start accepting other payment methods like PayPal, Stratocash etc?

pfgannon

Thank god for this online casinos are polluting the internet IMO. But like someone said above, they should be going after spammers first.