United States change approach towards online casinos
Although the opponents of the online casinos industry welcomed with joy the fact that many casinos refused to accept bets from the USA, this trend can turn out to be advantageous to online casino companies as well. Respecting the United States’ betting prohibition can act in advantage of the online casinos industry and help in the process of legalizing gambling in the whole area of USA. In fact many people criticized the approach than online casinos represented in the past, when they were trying to legalize the betting games and in the same time ignored federal laws and accepted bets from the US. The change of online casinos world policy can affect the decision about making online casino games legal greatly.
The basis of the Justice Department’s resistance towards online casino games is not a particular law, but the Wire Act from the year 1961. The Wire Act couldn’t specify the matter of online casino gambling, as the Internet wasn’t created then, but it’s content can be applied to nowadays technologies, and that includes the Internet.
The recent events may lead one into thinking that United States’ government already decided that there is no place for online casino business in the country. With the passage of the bill in House of Representative and the arrest of David Carruthers, Bet on Sports’ CEO, there is a little hope for making online casino gambling legal in U.S., however some think that this situation is a sign that the government wants to make the online casinos situation more stable and then build new approach towards Internet gambling on a solid ground. What will be the outcome we can only speculate.