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Online
Gambling
Legal
by Jerry "Jet"
Whittaker
July 8, 2006
Gambling cannot be stopped without federal help. Before
online gambling existed, congress passed three acts to
stop criminal gambling across state lines and many
people believe these laws should now be affective with
online gambling. This is a big controversy as to whether
the laws must be followed over the Internet or not.
Because of the dispute, Congress is working on a law
that particularly targets the Internet. The first law
that might be applied to online gambling is the Federal
Interstate Wire Act, passed by Congress in 1961. To try
to diminish gambling this prohibits the use of wire
communication that is being used for the transmission of
bets or wagers and gambling information interstate and
foreign commerce. Online gambling might be considered
breaking this law but the way the act is written
prevents it from being fully effective against online
gambling.
Laws and the regulation concerning
the online gambling
The way the act is worded it says that it applies to the
persons in the business of betting. This means that the
law doesn’t apply to individual gamblers. The courts
decided it to be the correct interpretation of the law.
Many would then argue over the fact that the Act should
apply to the operators of the Internet casinos, but law
enforcers have three things cleared before prosecution.
The next question is if the Wire Act applies only to the
one who bets in sports. Some believe it is because the
Act bans assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on
any sporting event or contest. However the next portion
of the Act states that it prohibits, the transmission of
a wire communication, which entitles the recipient to
receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers.
This spreads beyond just sports gambling. The third
problem with the Act is location mentioned in it. Online
one cannot always tell where someone is on the computer;
they could be on legal grounds for gambling.
Conclusion
In
many cases there are laws, which often makes the
online gambling
legal. As for instance, many countries allow online
gambling and have issued licenses to numerous online
casinos. Although, the situation in the United States
is a little more complicated. In recent years,
legislation has been introduced in a way to regulate and
even ban gambling over the Internet. However, the
proposed legislation has not targeted the casual player
gambling from their home, but rather the individual
casino operators who acknowledge real money wagers.
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