WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has suffered a new setback in a four-year-old legal battle with Antigua and Barbuda over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday. At issue is an April 2005 World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. prohibitions on online horse race betting. Since then, the U.S. Congress has passed additional legislation to ban bett

LONDON, England -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The first comprehensive picture of the 'average' online gambler emerges today from a huge new research project involving nearly 11,000 players from 96 countries. The 'eCOGRA Global Online Gambler Survey' commissioned by industry self-regulatory body eCOGRA and undertaken by the Betting and International Gaming Research Units at Nottingham Trent

The governments of Antigua and the United States are awaiting an important decision by the WTO which will be announced any day now. The WTO is going to determine if the United States has complied with an appellate body ruling that required the United States to either open its market to all gambling operations from Antigua or else totally stop remote domestic gambling in the United States. For tho

A Nigerian convicted of running a sophisticated identity theft ring that stole the personal data of online gamblers registered with BetonSports was sentenced today to 34 months in prison.   Lanre Elekede, 32, is the lead defendant in the case in which he pleaded guilty to stealing the identity of at least 175 individuals. According to the Department of Justice (DoJ), a many of the victims

They Made Me a CriminalBy Dr. Jack, CappersMall.com I am lucky enough to live near the beach in South Florida. There are also many other activities in Florida for us adults. The problem is us gamblers are bad, bad people. Haven't you seen the gambling news lately? I woke up Saturday morning and felt really lucky. I drove to the local grocery store and purchased $100 worth of scr

Who wants to be a billionaire? The E-Wallet race has startedDr. Jack, CappersMall.comOnline sportsbook and poker operators have been scrambling since last weeks announcement that NETeller would withdraw from the US Market leaving many operations in a pinch and struggling to find ways to transfer money between the player and the operator and the operator and the player. The NETeller situation ha

Californian lawyer puts the legality record straight In an excellent article titled "I-gaming will survive the DOJ’s jihad, but at a price" on the impressive online gambling information portal The RX Casinos.com last week, a Californian attorney specialising in the law of Internet and  interactive gaming put the legal record straight. Legal expert Martin Owens wrote:

A new federal law that targets online gambling hasn’t deterred Wheatfield resident Matt Wilkinson from playing Internet poker.   The legislation has been little more than an inconvenience for Porter resident and poker devotee Larry Austin, and it hasn’t impressed the head of the area’s largest gambling treatment program.   The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement

To those familiar with the Department of Justice's war against online gambling, the flotation and subsequent hyping of companies such as PartyGaming and 888 PLC represented something of a mystery; not least, because the Prohibition of Illegal Gambling Businesses Act 1955 clearly stated that; (a) Whoever conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part of an illegal gam

THE US Department of Justice has ordered the world’s biggest investment banks, accountants and law firms to hand over all e-mails, telephone records and papers connected with internet gaming firms as part of an investigation into illegal online gambling in America. HSBC, Dresdner Kleinwort, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank are known to be among the banks that have been issued with subpoe