Overview Online gambling is a use the internet to bet on casino games. It has many different of gambling such as public and private gambling houses, dice games, and betting on fight between animals. For the Asian cultures gambling were playing cards. When Europeans arrived in North America, they were settlers and colonists brought the penchant for gambling. In the Civil War, two World Wars have continued the gambling and a merge of Nevada as “Las Vegas-style” gambling. Now, gambling has connected to Internet and created Internet Age to get new opportunities for those gamblers to access and limit the spread of gambling. It had developed “Virtual” casino for gamblers of online game and no need physically attend in the casino. http://www.antiguawto.com/wto/NewsArt_BasisOnline_%20HarvardJournal_editorial_26oct05. pdf?id=658
In 1990’s, Rodolphe Durand from European operated the “pirate space” as offshore which is illegal gambling. There will have argument of outsider U.S about the legality of under state and federal law of online gambling. Because of it, U.S has strictly regulation of the industry and ban the activity and initiate of offshore online casino. In 2004, Antigua asked with WTO that U.S. distinction against the foreign supplier of “recreational services,” including online gaming. Although it can maintain the numbers of federal laws, U.S had freed off-track betting on horse races. http://www.antiguawto.com/wto/TimesUK_RhysBlakely_USgamblingrulesillegal_31mar07.pdf
In 2005, WTO complained the panel rule of U.S. which can bring opportunities to show the prevention of offshore that can protect the public order and morals. In March 2007, WTO asked U.S. to continue exempt the online betting of horse races which treated unfairly distinction against foreign casino. The U.S. can restrict online gambling that can be equally to the laws to American and foreign operators. WTO allow Antigua to trade sanction against U.S. Antigua does not have strong economic to bring the trade sanction
to against United States, it may affected other countries to ban such as Great Britain, and request the WTO for believe. http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/12/21/us-trade-wto-gamblingidUSL2160157420071221?sp=true
In 2006, U.S. has arrested David Caruthers for 33 months in prison because of racketeering, conspiracy, and fraud. U.S. governments had made the online internet in U.S illegal or make it more difficult to access. In summer 2010, U.S Congressman Barney Frank has sponsored a bill of online poker that has provision tax of winning. Poker is not gambling but it require of skills. The estimate of tax needed over a 10 years is $ 40 billion. 49 of 50 American states are illegal of online poker. http://www.antiguawto.com/wto/NewsArt_KansasCityStar_US_%20ignores_WTOruling_Interne t_gambling_5Apr06.htm
United State estimated there will have 1.8 million professional and amateur players online. There might have 100,000 people logged on the Full Tilt Poker. However, 200,000 people will on PokerStars. The poker game started to show on TV, broadcast industry known as “time buys” and commercial for “tutorial” or “educational”. Tutorial is the person get paid and wear hats, shirts and other apparel to display the logo of”.net”. “dot.com” poker sites will be not mentioned in the commercial. http://www.antiguawto.com/NewsArtTimeUSgettingbeat20Nov05.htm
On April 15, 2011, U.S Department of Justice started to fall because involve in bank fraud, money laundering and other violations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. It also blocked access and internet address Full Tilt Poker and other sites. This effect the industry started to develop to be call as “Black Friday”. Bodog started to leave on July 26, 2011 which leads him to indicate that few companied willing to take the risk to continue the online gambling. The New Jersey is the first state to allow
intra-state online gambling but Governor Chris Christine not approved it. In Iowa and Nevada is the state that thinking carefully for legalize on Internet gambling. http://www.americangaming.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/final_online_gambling_white _paper_5-18-11.pdf
