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Portugal and Legal Online Gambling In Near Future?

A deepening revenue crisis may force Portuguese online gaming liberalization in the very near future. Portugal News Online (PNO) is reporting that the prospect of a few hundred million Euros in gaming tax revenues is seriously motivating a push to open gaming markets to foreign competition. Gaming Revenue Solution The PNO report claims that as…

US Government Seizes Domain In NFL-Inspired Raids

[caption id="attachment_17036" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Domain names and jerseys were seized in the raids."][/caption] On the eve of the Super Bowl, government agents were busy seizing 307 web domains suspected of infringing on National Football League copyrights. Most of the sites were accused of selling counterfeit NFL jerseys and accessories. But at least 16 of the…

Senate Indian Affairs Committee Discussing Wire Act Interpretation

Online poker will take center stage at the US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs scheduled for February 9. Oversight Hearing on the US Department of Justice Opinion on Internet Gaming: What’s At Stake for Tribes? will likely cover a lot of ground beyond just Indian-related issues and will be closely watched throughout the gaming world.…

US State Stances On Online Gambling

The legality of online gambling in the United States is always ambiguous. Casino affiliates are often confused as to what the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006 covers, and on whether there are different  laws in place that ban the participation and offering of online gambling in different states. The answer to these…

US State and Federal Governments Racing For Online Gaming Revenue

The battle to legalize online gambling has turned into a race between state and Federal government to see who will act first. Which companies win out, or can even participate at all, depends a lot on who is writing the regulations, so the stakes are sky high for players, businesses and investors. Revenue Trumps Morals…

SOPA Protest Impact and Updates

Some of the Internet’s biggest, and smallest, players joined forces this week to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Protests ranged from Wikipedia (and about 10,000 other site) shutting down completely for the day to individuals who placed small graphics on their Facebook pages. Offline, Internet users flooded the switchboards in Washington to…