Tuesday, May 23, 2006

As reported by the Globe and Mail: "The burgeoning U.S. on-line gambling
industry must stop resorting to tactics aimed at evading government
regulation, and prepare for a future in which it will have no choice but to
deal with it, says a cyberspace legal expert. "'My argument is that it's a
mistake to bet the industry on the capacity to escape the government's
ability to regulate,' Stanford University law professor and author Lawrence
Lessig said Tuesday in the keynote speech at the Global Interactive Gaming
Summit & Expo. "New technologies being developed by Microsoft Corp. and
other software giants will soon make it possible to authenticate the
identity of a computer user anywhere in the world, said Mr. Lessig, the
author of two books about Internet regulation. "That ID technology will, in
turn, allow governments around the world to co-operate on a global approach
to cyberspace regulation, including gambling, he said..."