gaming and gambling regulations

Reid Online Gambling Bill: Inside The Draft

UIGEA strengthened; foreign sites wanting US license must obey

As word that Harry Reid was authoring his own poker/casino-friendly bill repealing UIGEA filtered through the press today, people in the poli-poker world have been itching for a look at the draft filtering around Capitol Hill. Fortunately, the global gaming

Reid Online Gambling Bill: Inside The Draft

UIGEA strengthened; foreign sites wanting US license must obey

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Feds Begin Seizing “Illegal” Web Domains

DOJ, Homeland Security assert controversial web authority

Sign of things to come? A notice greeting visitors to seized file-sharing search engine torrent-finder.com. Federal graphic artists have been hard at work designing this new splash page for websites the DOJ intends to shut down. Lame-duck Congress resumed today,

Feds Begin Seizing “Illegal” Web Domains

DOJ, Homeland Security assert controversial web authority

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Zynga Tries to Patent Virtual Casino Currency

An attempt to *own* social media gambling transactions?

In last Friday\’s twitfeed, my favorite tech-biz site Tech Crunch tweeted about their post  \”Is Zynga Trying To Patent Virtual Currency?\” Apparently, the leviathan of multiplayer gaming networks — and big wildcard in the future of real-money online poker —

Zynga Tries to Patent Virtual Casino Currency

An attempt to *own* social media gambling transactions?

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Washington Pullout, Lame-duck 2267, Stars Int’l Licensing, Betfair IPO, Penn National Vegas

GamingCounsel’s Weekly Briefs

Hello good people of Pokerati. Here\’s what I hope to make a weekly digest of what I think are the most interesting and/or relevant stories (not necessarily the same thing) happening online and around the world: PokerStars turns off Washington

Washington Pullout, Lame-duck 2267, Stars Int’l Licensing, Betfair IPO, Penn National Vegas

GamingCounsel’s Weekly Briefs

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