Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
The rise of the Internet has posed several serious policy questions for lawmakers both in the United States and abroad, but one situation that has not fully been addressed is what to do with Internet gambling. The explosion of Internet gambling in the past decade has caught officials in the United States off guard and forced courts to improvise and cobble together precedent based on statutes and case law, neither of which are on point.1 There has been an increase in the number of Internet gambling web sites, magazines related to Internet gambling, and television shows that involve gambling in general. There are even poker web sites that teach people how to play or that allow people to play for free. Pari-mutuel horse racing aside, it is currently illegal both for Internet gambling companies to operate in the United States and for people in the United States to place bets on the Internet.
Recommended Citation
McBurney, Joseph J., "To Regulate or to Prohibit: An Analysis of the Internet Gambling Industry and the Need for a Decision on the Industry's Future in the United States" (2006). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 447.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/447
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