gambling illegal?

[dummy]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/769010.asp?0bl=-0

Does this mean that they are going to ban the whole internet gambling industry including advertising of the casinos?

[deaning]

Time to move to England or South Africa?
http://www.msnbc.com/NEWS/544764.asp

[dummy]

What does this actually mean? That advertising to US customers is illegal?

Anyway, most of the gamblers are from US, aren't they?

[deaning]

yep most gamblers are from the US but with the UK letting it happen and the Asian market opening up things might look up.

We had a similar problem in Australia with the Internet Gamblng Bill but fortunately for us it was revised to allow Australian ownership of portals and casinos not hosted in the country as long as Australian gamblers are not targeted.

But of course if people want to gamble it is pretty hard to stop them...

I think the US situation will pan out ok but we will see.

[gringo]

Goodlatte has gotten this far before with previous legislation, but his previous attempts have not succeeded. Opposition to this type of legislation may have actually grown and comes from several sources:

1) Liberal Democrats who oppose such "Big Brother" type legislation

2) Conservative Republicans who are against any type of Internet regulation, who see it as possibly negatively affecting US businesses.

3) Congressional Representatives (CR) who see this type of bill as unenforcable, and therefore useless.

4) CR's whose states have some type of legalized gambling in their states.

5) US Land Based casinos who initially supported this type of legislation, but now oppose it because they want to be able to launch their own online gambling.

The legislation could very well pass, but I do not think it is likely. In the mean time I would not market directly to US consumers in an obvious manner (Sending marketing materials to US citizens through the US mail). Some individual states have internet marketing bans. As for advertising on a website, you can't really control who is seeing your advertising.

[gringo]

"Internet gambling ban faces long odds"

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/...eut/index.html