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LASSETERS HALTS SERVICE TO US ONLINE GAMBLERS
THE AUSTRALIAN October 16, 2006 ONLINE casino operator Lasseters Corp Ltd has halted services to the US following legislation introduced there making it illegal to accept online bets from US-based players. Lasseters said the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act would eliminate about half of the world’s estimated $US10 billion ($13.34 billion) online gaming industry. -
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US CASINOS HEAD FOR THE ISLANDS TO AVOID US BAN
TORONTO STAR Oct. 13, 2006. 01:00 AM PETE HARRISON REUTERS NEWS AGENCY LONDON—A looming U.S. ban on Internet gambling is already scaring off London-listed operators, but the industry will continue to thrive in the hands of private operators in locations like Costa Rica, Antigua and Curacao. The fear of extradition to the United States has forced executives in the United Kingdom to turn away from their most lucrative market, some selling their U.S.
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ONLINE GAMBLING SITES CONTINUE TO ADVERTISE IN SPITE OF CRACKDOWN
NEWSDAY.COM By DAVID B.
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THE SKY ISNT FALLING FOR ONLINE GAMING
Article carried at WINNER ONLINE (WOL) by Karl Yu, Winneronline 12 October, 2006 You can relax Chicken Little, contrary to reports, the sky isn’t falling. When news broke that the United States had made an addendum to the Safe Port Act that would limit online gambling, no doubt, poker players considered running to the hills.
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DON'T BET ON BAN ENDING INTERNET GAMBLING
MSNBC Will ban end Internet gambling? Don’t bet on it Bill may win political points, but $12 billion industry can work around it By Mike Brunker Reporter MSNBC It took Congress more than a decade to pass a ban on Internet gambling.
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GAMBLING LEGISLATION IN VIOLATION OF 'READ THE BILLS' ACT?
FREE MARKET NEWS NETWORK WHAT CONGRESS INSERTED Monday, October 09, 2006 Congress passed a lot of legislation at the last minute before adjourning. We highly doubt they read any of it. There was no waiting period to give them time to read the bills, even if they had wanted to know what they were passing. Bad stuff was inserted and combined with completely unrelated material. Most in Congress had no idea what they were voting for, and we are only just now learning the details of much of it.
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PartyGaming Drops Out of FTSE 100
iGAMING BUSINESS 11-10-06 Online gaming group PartyGaming has lost its coveted place in the FTSE 100 index following the collapse of its shares during a horrific fortnight for the Internet gambling industry, which has seen company after company pulling out of the US market.
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ONLINE GAMING IN CRISIS
ISLE OF MAN TODAY SHARES in the Island’s listed online gaming companies plummeted last week amid fears that a clampdown in the US could destroy the industry.
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Leisure & Gaming Going Private
REUTERS LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The U.S.-focused gambling operations of Britain’s Leisure & Gaming (LNG.L: Quote, Profile, Research) are likely to be taken private and continue operating after online gambling is banned there, a source close to the company said on Wednesday. Leisure & Gaming said on Tuesday it would block U.S. gamblers from its sites, and was in preliminary talks to sell its U.S.
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eCOGRA STRESSES ONLINE GAMBLING PLAYER PROTECTION MORE ESSENTIAL THAN EVER
eCOGRA URGES ITS SEALHOLDERS TO CONTINUE TO ACT RESPONSIBLY LONDON, October 11, 2006 The non-profit online gambling standards and player protection body eCOGRA (eCommerce and Online Gambling Regulation and Assurance) www.ecogra.org has reiterated the critical importance of consistent and monitored standards for professional online casino and poker room operations to ensure players receive a fair gaming experience and good customer service all backed up by a strong dispute mediation service.
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INTERNET GAMBLING LAW "CONTRADICTORY AND INEFFECTIVE"
THE KANSAS CITY STAR By RICK ALM – Columnist In the closing moments before it adjourned for its biennial reckoning with voters, Congress hastily outlawed financial transactions that facilitate Internet gambling. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 makes criminals of companies — not players — who electronically move money for the purposes of online sports betting: wagering on dog races, poker and other casino-style games.
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US DEALS DOUBLE BLOW TO CARIBBEAN
NATIONNEWS.COM Published on: 10/10/06. An objective assessment of how decisions by United States lawmakers can negatively impact on the economies of the Caribbean would establish that last month was one that brought very bad news for this region.
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AMERICANS STILL FREE TO GAMBLE ONLINE SAYS IGC
INTERACTIVE GAMING COUNCIL (IGC) October 9th, 2006 AMERICANS STILL FREE TO GAMBLE ONLINE – Congress passes a ban that targets payment mechanisms, but fails to protect the players. CONTACTS: Rick Smith, Executive Director, executive.director@igcouncil.org | Phone: 1-604-732-3833 Keith Furlong, Deputy Director, keith@cataniaconsulting.com | Mobile: 1-732-687-0880 9 October 2006 – After a decade of false starts, anti-gambling forces in the U.S.
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LEISURE & GAMING JOINS FAIRGROUND GAMING AND FIREONE - EXIT US ONLINE GAMBLING MARKET
BETTING MARKET (www.bettingmarket.com) The passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which makes unlawful the receipt by a gambling business of proceeds or monies in connection with unlawful internet gambling, has led to three more companies announcing plans to exit the US facing online gambling market. Leisure & Gaming plc a holding company focused on the interactive betting and gaming sector operates a number of online sports betting and casino brands.
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More online firms suspend US gambling operations
INTHENEWS – www.inthenews.co.uk Tuesday, 10 Oct 2006 10:16 The new US law bans banks from processing online gambling payments Two online gambling firms have announced that they are suspending their operations in the US ahead of the imminent implementation of new laws restricting internet gaming.
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A Look at Online Gambling and Legislation: How did this happen and what to do now?
Editor’s Note: This article appeared on Gambling911 and it would do it a major injustice to hack it up so it’s being posted here ‘intact’ to keep the integrity of the article and sources.
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Why The New Federal Law Banning Payments for Online Gambling:Is The Wrong Choice
FINDLAW By ANITA RAMASASTRY —- Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2006 Recently, Congress passed a bill — the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGA) — that attempts to make existing anti-gambling laws easier to enforce against Internet gambling. This week, President Bush is expected to sign UIGA into law. As UIGA’s preamble accurately notes, “traditional law enforcement mechanisms are often inadequate” in this area.
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12 Million Mistreated Internet Gamblers To Vote This Fall
DAILY KOS (www.dailykos.com) by prouddemocrat Sat Oct 07, 2006 at 02:37:49 PM PDT The 12 million Internet gamblers in the U.S. will not be happy that their Senators never had a fair chance to consider an anti-Internet gambling bill in open debate. The ban was enacted by attaching it to an unrelated Senate bill late at night before a recess.
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ONLINE CASINO WORLD GAMING ASKED FOR SHARES TO BE SUSPENDED
IRELAND ON-LINE 09/10/2006 – 12:11:24 Shares in online casino World Gaming were suspended today as the fall-out from new anti-gambling legislation in the United States continued. World Gaming said it asked for its shares to be suspended “with immediate effect due to a fundamental uncertainty over its ability to continue trading”. It followed the shock approval of new laws effectively banning online gambling in the US which sent World Gaming shares tumbling 92% last week.
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NO MORE NET GAMBLING?
THE MINNESOTA DAILY October 9, 2006 A bill outlawing online gambling is awaiting approval by the president. By JP Leider “The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 could stop the meteoric rise of online poker. The act was tacked onto the Security and Accountability for Every Port Act in late September and passed through Congress shortly thereafter. President George W.
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BETTING ON DOUBLE STANDARDS IN THE US
FINANCIAL NEWS / Online US Grant Clelland, Deputy Editor 09 Oct 2006 When a continental European country takes action to protect its industry from external competition, it is called economic nationalism.
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GAMBLING WITH FREEDOM
THE WASHINGTON TIMES By Clyde Wayne Crews Jr./ Achim Schmillen October 9, 2006 Your after-tax income belongs to you. You are free to spend it, invest it, waste it, burn it, or tithe it away — and none of that is any politicians’ business. But if some lawmakers have their way, soon you won’t be able to gamble your money away on the Internet.
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CONGRESS OUTLAWS INTERNET GAMBLING WHICH WILL HELP TERRORISM IN THE LONG RUN
PBS (www.pbs.com) October 6, 2006 Risky Business: Congress stupidly outlawed Internet gambling and only terrorists were helped By Robert X. Cringely Last Saturday the United States Congress passed a port security bill that carried an amendment banning Internet gambling.
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Regulate gambling or lose the income
THE NATIONAL POSTOnline betting is a grey area of law with huge profits Diane Francis, Financial PostPublished: Saturday, October 07, 2006 The world’s largest computer facilities for online gaming are located in Canada and are nicknamed MIT. This doesn’t stand for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: It stands for the Mohawk Institute of Technology.
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UK MAKING A SERIOUS BID TO BRING HEART OF ONLINE GAMBLING TO ENGLAND
TIMESONLINE The Sunday Times – Business The Sunday Times October 08, 2006 By Dipesh Gadher and Matthew Goodman PLANS to turn Britain into a “world leader” in internet gambling have been drawn up by ministers, according to internal Whitehall documents. In stark contrast to America, where online gambling has in effect been outlawed, ministers want to attract offshore companies to Britain.
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INTERNET GAMBLING LEGISLATION CREATES MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
IN BUSINESS Las Vegas By Liz Benston / Staff Writer Days after the contentious passage last weekend of a bill to block American financial institutions from processing online gambling transactions, observers have mixed feelings about what the legislation means for players who gamble at home and the related industries that benefit from the action.
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Neteller and Firepay May Be Safe From Recent US Gambling Legislation
THE EXAMINER By Jerry Jordan, Senior Staff Writer Secreted into H.R. 4954, the Safe Port Act, the U.S. Senate attached and voted to approve an amendment that now makes it illegal for banks to fund Internet gambling sites, as well as, the money brokers, like Neteller, Firepay and Click2Pay that act as a go-between from U.S. banks and offshore gambling sites. In addition, the legislation, which is expected to be signed by President George W.
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EFFECTS OF INTERNET GAMBLING BILL FUELS EXODUS
Posted on Fri, Oct. 06, 2006 ‘Black Friday’ effect of Internet gambling measure fuels exodus DANIEL YEE Associated Press ATLANTA – Internet poker players and other gamblers in the U.S. have withdrawn thousands of dollars from their Web-based accounts while some gaming sites have raced to block U.S.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH - BUSH SET TO SIGN INTERNET GAMBLING BILL INTO LAW
EYE ON GAMBLING (EOG) written October 6, 2006 This is sad news but it was expected. EOG has just learned President George W. Bush will sign the Security and Accountability For Every (SAFE) Port Act into law next Friday, delivering a blow to U.K.-listed online gaming companies, whose shares tumbled after an Internet gambling ban was attached to the legislation. The port security bill was one of Congress’ final actions before breaking for the November mid-term elections.
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Congress Busts The Online Poker Boom
CBS NEWS Congress Busts The Online Poker Boom Ken Adams: New Internet Gaming Law Will Squash Underdog Dreams Of Scoring Big (CBS) Ken Adams writes about poker for CBSNews.com. In 2003 an anonymous Tennessee accountant with the unlikely name of Chris Moneymaker invested $100 in an online poker tournament in which the first prize was a $10,000 entry in the annual World Series of Poker championship in Las Vegas. Moneymaker went on to win the World Series championship bracelet and $2.
