A new law like UIGEA could be passed in Norway, as Reuters reports.
Rolf Sims, legal adviser to Norway’s Ministry of Culture explained that a new draft law is planned that could make processing of bet payments illegal. A collegue of his - the Norwegian Gaming Board legal adviser Thomas Helgesen explained that the Norwegian “is [...]
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Norwegian ban online gambling - in progress
Online gambling - national, european and international approaches
  An interesting presentation from Emeline THOMAS :
National approaches, the international community and gambling online help to highlight the difficulties presented by the Member States to abide by the requirements of the European Community and the World Trade Organization.
The interest in this subject is to demonstrate the complexity of the legal sector gambling online. Because of [...]
Partypoker - also in Danish, Swedish and Finnish
Partypoker has announced a new upgrade to their software, that includes the poker software in the native language of the users from Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Partypoker announced with the same occasion that it will host a 50 000 USD Freeroll, exclusively for nordic players on 22 November 2007 - starting with 14:30 ET [...]
Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is an unrealistic gambling ban
I found, via Net Bet Blog a great article regarding UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) and its effects on the US Market. The article ” Internet Gambling Act Should Be Scrapped” appeared in Bloomberg
and points out the moste important problems with the enforcement of this act.
The author is Joe Saumarez-Smith is [...]
Partygaming presents its 2007 third quarter revenues
Partygaming, owner of the PartyPartners Affiliate Programme released its Q3financial results, that show and increase with 24 % from the same period last year. This mounts up to 115.7million USD, thanks to a huge rise by their Casino business (promoted under the brand PartyCasino) that rose with 158 % and sports betting activities ( [...]
Unibet Chief Executive Peter Nylande arrested in Holland
Mr. Peter Nyland, the director of the Swedish online betting firm Unibet, was arrested on the Amsterdam airport, when he was trying to fly to UK.
The Dutch authorites have claimed that they have a warrant from the French authorities that have accussed Mr. Nylande of breaking French laws that prohibit online gambling. This [...]
Bwin and Betbull will start Madrid betting shop
After bwin impressive four-year $70 million shirt sponsorship deal with the famous Real Madrid Football Club, the company decided to take advantage of the brand development in Spain and, in partnership with Betbull, will start its first shops in the first quarter of 2008.
The duo bettinmg companies takes advantage of the new lax regulation from [...]
Swedish Poker Association (SPA) sues state-owned monopoly Svenska Spel
The two organizations battle is going for the use of the trademark “Swedish Poker Championships”, a competition already held online and offline.
Both the SPA and Svenska Spel will arrange online championships in November 2007 with a similar name.
SPA says they have trademark on that name -Â “It is very shocking that a crown corporation with [...]
Unibet loses lawsuit in Netherlands in Utrecht to De Lotto
An Utrech court has decided that prohibited Unibet gambling proposers by means of its Internet site illegal offer gambling games, among which gambling football paid on Dutch amateur games and games from.
As this Dutch website reportsthe Dutch monopoly operator De Lotto says it has secured a court verdict last week against European online operator Unibet, [...]
Code of conduct for the European gambling industry
The European Interactive Gaming Congress and Expo (EIG) held in October 2007 in Barcelona was the place where a new code of conduct for the european gambling industry was suggested, starting from a worshop discussion started by Microgaming and than joined by GamCare, eCogra, and the RGA that presented the new code of [...]