It’S business as usual for Manx-based e-gaming businesses – despite dramatic developments in the States which have seen one of the founders of online poker pleading guilty to a charge relating to illegal web betting. Anurag Dikshit, the former director of Gibraltar-based PartyGaming, could face a maximum two years behind bars after admitting one count [...]
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Business as usual for Isle of Man e-gaming
December 24th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Isle of Man · Malta · partygaming · Poker Stars
Kentucky Domains Case goes to Court of Appeals
December 13th, 2008 No Comments
Kentucky authorities want to seize 140 Internet domain names, saying the web sites bring illegal gambling within the borders of the commonwealth.
Attorneys for a trade association for the gambling web sites countered that Kentucky lacks the authority to make that move because the domain names aren’t property and, besides, they are based offshore and beyond [...]
Tags: kentucky
60 Minutes/Washington Post Investigation on How Online Gamblers Unmasked Cheaters
November 27th, 2008 No Comments
Collaboration by two of the world’s most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints.
The results of the four-month investigation by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, producer [...]
Tags: Absolute Poker · cheating · internet gambling · ultimate bet
Treasury Department should not overreact to Internet gambling
November 1st, 2008 No Comments
The following opinion piece was published by CNET, written by Dick Armey, the chairman of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization dedicated to lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.
While most of us are distracted watching the presidential election, the U.S. Treasury Department is quietly pushing through new rules that potentially will have devastating consequences for [...]
Tags: Barney Frank · HR5767 · Payments System Protection Act · Treasure Department · uigea
Obama, McCain, Biden, Palin.. Who’s the best for Internet gambling?
October 16th, 2008 No Comments
CasinoOnline.co.uk has ventured into the heated presidential election campaign and found out what’s really behind the candidates plans for online gambling, digging up some surprising results along the way.
In a concise summary, the present the U.S presidential election race in relation to gambling, find out about who voted ‘for’ and ‘against’ the Unlawful Internet Gambling [...]
Tags: barack obama · biden · mccain · palin
