It is not technically possible to ban Internet sports betting
This is what a Bavarian court ( from Munich) has ruled in the lawsuit between the Bavarian Authorities and Bwin.
According to Forbes the court said that
“It is technically impossible to exclude only gamblers residing in Bavaria from using the company’s online offers. The Bavarian statedid not show a single comprehensible and convincing way that sports betting companies can technically implement the ban.”
The Bavarian authorities declared in September 2006 that 3 Internet betting companies should not accept wagers from the Bavarian users, since only the state-owned sports betting company is allowed to do that.
This is a very nice precedent established by the Bavarian court that shows a real understanding by the Internet from the judges. It is also a smart decision, not to go again in the Italian style that tried, without success to block the websites via Italian ISPs.
7. November 2007 at 5:31 pm :
[...] regards the ban as essentially null and void.” This decision confirms the precedent from a Bavarian court presented by our blog in May 2007, contradicting the Bavarian Authorities that who decided that 3 companie could not accept wagers from [...]