Online Activity Soon to be Regulated
Government regulation is coming to the Internet, and the $12 billion US online gambling industry shouldn't bet on continuing unfettered into the future, says a leading expert on cyber law.
"Thanks to the proliferation of spam, child porn and other 'evil' online, there will be an increasing demand for governments to tame the wild web", Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and founder of the university's Centre for Internet and Society, told gambling proponents Tuesday.
"Today it is, effectively, unregulable," Lessig told about 1,600 delegates from around the world attending an online gaming industry summit in Montreal.
The United States is already mulling an Internet gambling prohibition law aimed at cutting off Americans from most forms of gaming. It would be difficult to enforce in the current climate, where sites based in other countries, predominantly in the Caribbean, make gambling accessible beyond the reach of a nation's own laws.
May 17, 2006
Posted By Susan Torres
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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