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Anne Lindner Gaming Guru - Page 2A Limited Sky - No Casino Games via Interactive TV10 July 2003
Citing the nebulous legality of offering non fixed-odds games through the medium of digital interactive television, Sky Digital recently announced that from July 21 on it will not allow casino games to be offered on its platform.
Robert Fraser, a spokesman for Sky, said the company has drawn up a new policy with the help of the British Gaming Board. ... (read more)
Q & A: Kev Leyshon, Norfolk Island Gaming Authority3 July 2003
Kev Leyshon, the director of the Norfolk Island Gaming Authority, spoke to Interactive Gaming News this week about how being an Australian territory has made the island's once-thriving Internet gambling licensing business fall on hard times.
"[Australia's Federal policy] has virtually killed ... (read more)
I-Gaming on Hold in the UK, But for How Long?27 June 2003
The Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association (IGGBA) said last week at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo in Montreal that it will try to push sections of the U.K. gambling bill through Parliament if it begins to appear that the bill will be stalled.
The bill, which is the first ... (read more)
No Dice in the House for Bachus Bill... Yet5 June 2003
HR 2143 was pulled from the House of Representatives schedule again today before it could come to a vote.
The bill, which states that merchants cannot accept bank instruments as payment for illegal online gambling transactions in the United States, was introduced by Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., on May 20 in the Financial Services Committee. ... (read more)
Bachus I-Gaming Bill Put on Hold3 June 2003
HR 2143, an Internet gambling bill, was pulled from the House of Representatives suspension calendar today by its sponsors.
The bill was to be voted on today by the full House. Under the suspension calendar, it would have received 40 minutes of debate, could not be amended and would have needed a two-thirds majority to pass. ... (read more)
Visa Pulls the Plug on '7995' Cheaters29 May 2003
On May 22, Visa instituted a new policy that will block some Internet gambling transactions that were being miscoded by site operators.
Banks in Visa's U.S. region were informed of the change via a letter from Visa, said Casey Watson, a spokeswoman for the credit card company. In the Visa network, individual banks decide whether to accept Internet gambling transactions. ... (read more)
The Real Purpose of the Bachus Bill?23 May 2003
The I-gaming bill introduced by Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., on Tuesday will likely never become law, but it could ease the way for anti-Internet gaming legislation in the Senate.
The Bachus bill, HR 2143, was reported favorably to the House of Representatives after a short markup in the Financial Services Committee Tuesday morning. ... (read more)
Q & A: Paul Barnes, Access Gaming Systems22 May 2003
Paul Barnes is the vice president of sales and marketing for Access Gaming Systems (Europe) Ltd., a gambling software developer located in Ireland. Barnes recently talked with IGN about Xenia, his group's newest gaming product and the successor to ACES 4.4. Xenia is Java-based and supports multi-player games, multi-lingual sites and multi-currency purses. ... (read more)
A New Prohibition Bill Emerges in the House20 May 2003
The U.S. House Financial Services Committee today voted to report favorably a new version of the Leach Internet gambling bill that lacks the former bill's civil and criminal penalties.
The new bill, HR 2143, was introduced yesterday by Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala. It was put forth as a challenge to the ... (read more)
Eleventh-Hour Opposition in the House16 May 2003
In the days leading up to the May 14 markup of the Leach Internet gambling bill, the House Judiciary Committee leadership heard from a handful of diverse groups with an interest in blocking the bill.
HR 21, the bill sponsored by Rep. James Leach, a Republican from Iowa, is a controversial piece of legislation that seeks to ban payment options for illegal online gambling operations. ... (read more)
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