While eyes focus on the success of Amazon.com and eBay, gambling and gaming Web sites are quietly attracting increasing numbers of on-line Americans, as well as the attention of legislators and game developers.
(...) But figures are hard to come by, as most of these revenues go to offshore companies and will continue to do so as long as U.S. states rule on-line gambling as being illegal.
One exception is Nevada, where tolerance of gambling extended into cyberspace last January when on-line sports book betting became legal. (...) ''We're in the brokering business, not the gambling business,'' Mr. Mindes says.
While Nevada intends to corral on-line gambling within its borders, an estimated 47 jurisdictions around the globe currently license or regulate on-line gambling.
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Since the mid-1980s there has been unprecedented growth in commercial gambling and annual global gambling losses were estimated to total $400 billion in 2016 (Bogart, 2011; The data team, 2017). This growth is driven by increasing acceptance of legal gambling, the intersection of gambling and financial technologies, impacts of internet and mobile devices, the spread of gambling to traditionally non-gambling settings and other globalisation forces (Abbott & Volberg, 1999). (...) There is also strong growth, globally, in on-line gambling. While now widespread, some societies previously had limited experience of gambling and it remains legally prohibited in some parts of the world (Binde, 2005).
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The providing of Internet or other on-line access, transmission, routing, storage, or other communication related services, or Web Site design, development, storage, maintenance, billing, advertising, hypertext linking, transaction processing, or other site related services, by telephone companies, Internet Service Providers, software developers, licensors, or other such parties providing such services to customers in the normal course of their business, shall not be considered gambling by computer even though the activities of such customers using such services to conduct a prohibited game, contest, lottery, or contrivance may constitute gambling by computer for the purposes of this Section. (...) It shall be lawful for bona fide veterans, charitable, educational, religious or fraternal organizations, civic and service clubs, senior citizen associations or clubs, volunteer fire companies and first-aid or rescue squads to conduct, under such restrictions and control as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Legislature by law, games of chance of, and restricted to, the selling of rights to participate, the awarding of prizes, in the specific kind of game of chance sometimes known as bingo or lotto, played with cards bearing numbers or other designations, five or more in one line, the holder covering numbers as objects, similarly numbered, are drawn from a receptacle and the game being won by the person who first covers a previously designated arrangement of numbers on such a card, when the entire net proceeds of such games of chance are to be devoted to educational, charitable, patriotic, religious or public-spirited uses, and in the case of senior citizen associations or clubs to the support of such organizations, in any municipality, in which a majority of the qualified voters, voting thereon, at a general or special election as the submission thereof shall be prescribed by the Legislature by law, shall authorize the conduct of such games of chance therein;
B. (...) Unless otherwise provided by law, no single prize shall exceed two hundred fifty dollars, nor shall any series of prizes on one occasion aggregate more than one thousand dollars.
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Score: 1642490.8
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The providing of Internet or other on-line access, transmission, routing, storage, or other communication related services, or Web Site design, development, storage, maintenance, billing, advertising, hypertext linking, transaction processing, or other site related services, by telephone companies, Internet Service Providers, software developers, licensors, or other such parties providing such services to customers in the normal course of their business, shall not be considered gambling by computer even though the activities of such customers using such services to conduct a prohibited game, contest, lottery, or contrivance may constitute gambling by computer for the purposes of this Section. (...) It shall be lawful for bona fide veterans, charitable, educational, religious or fraternal organizations, civic and service clubs, senior citizen associations or clubs, volunteer fire companies and first-aid or rescue squads to conduct, under such restric tions and control as shall from time to time be prescribed by the Legislature by law, games of chance of, and restricted to, the selling of rights to participate, the awarding of prizes, in the specific kind of game of chance sometimes known as bingo or lotto, played with cards bearing numbers or other designations, five or more in one line, the holder covering numbers as objects, similarly numbered, are drawn from a receptacle and the game being won by the person who first covers a previously designated arrangement of numbers on such a card, when the entire net proceeds of such games of chance are to be devoted to educational, charitable, patriotic, religious or public-spirited uses, and in the case of senior citizen associations or clubs to the support of such organizations, in any municipality, in which a majority of the qualified voters, voting thereon, at a general or special election as the submission thereof shall be prescribed by the Legislature by law, shall authorize the conduct of such games of chance therein;
B. (...) Unless otherwise provided by law, no single prize shall exceed two hundred fifty dollars, nor shall any series of prizes on one occasion aggregate more than one thousand dollars.
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Looking at the chapeau to Article XVI:2 as context for the interpretation of one of the six
subparagraphs contained in that provision, the Appellate Body in US – Gambling observed:
"[T]he chapeau to Article XVI:2, refers to the purpose of the sub-paragraphs that
follow, namely, to define the measures which a Member shall not maintain or adopt for sectors where market access commitments are made. (...) The Appellate Body in US - Gambling was thus able to conclude that "limitations amounting to a zero quota are quantitative limitations and fall within the scope of Article XVI:2(a)".47 Since the Panel's findings on limitations affecting part of a sector, or part of a
mode of supply, were not appealed, the Appellate Body was able to quote and uphold the Panel’s combined finding that a measure prohibiting the supply of certain services where specific
commitments have been undertaken is a limitation within the meaning of Article XVI:2(c) "because it totally prevents the services operations and/or service output through one or more or all means
41 Panel Report, China – Electronic Payment Services, paras. 7.592-7.593. 42 Panel Report, Argentina – Financial Services, para. 7.424. 43 Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, para. 245. 44 Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, para. 247. 45 Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, para. 249. 46 Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, para. 250. 47 Appellate Body Report, US – Gambling, para. 238.
(...) The Appellate Body in US – Gambling declined to go beyond a ruling on the measure at issue, and stated that "[i]t is neither necessary nor appropriate for us to draw, in the abstract, the line between quantitative and qualitative measures, and we do not do so here."49
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A "matter" referred to the DSB consists of one or more "specific" measure(s), together with one or more legal claims relating to such measures. (...) The two documents are similar. Each one "sets forth the enforcement position" of the Attorney General. (...) As explained above, it is well established that a "matter" referred to the DSB consists of one or more "specific" measure(s), together with one or more legal claims relating to such measures.
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Secondly, the Panel failed to have due regard to the fact that its recourse to dictionaries revealed that gambling and betting can, at least in some contexts, be one of the meanings of the word “sporting”. (...) In the context of the United States’ Schedule, this means that, notwithstanding the broad language used in sector 10 — for example, “recreational services”, “sporting”, and “entertainment services” — gambling and betting services can only fall — if at all — within one of those service categories.
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… W/120 sets out a much more aggregated classification list than the one found in the CPC. … the CPC’s level of disaggregation was one of the very reasons it was selected as a basis for a sectoral classification list.
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The parties and third parties shall provide the Panel with an executive summary of the facts and arguments as presented to the Panel in their written submissions and oral presentations within one week following the delivery to the Panel of the written version of the relevant submission. (...) Instead, Antigua bases its claim on a proposition about the effect of one or more unspecified measure(s) from among the hundreds of items listed in the Annex to its panel request. (...) A "matter" referred to the DSB consists of one or more "specific" measure(s), together with one or more legal claims relating to such measures.37 A panel with standard terms of reference may only examine this matter, i.e., claims relating to a "measure" in the panel request.
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This Unit was responsible for applying Internal Market law to distributive trade services, commercial communication services, media services, technical testing/accreditation services and gambling services. It was also responsible for the e-commerce and conditional access directives and for the evaluation of notifications of new national information society rules falling under directive 98/34. The Unit prepared the Commission's second implementation Report on the Conditional Access directive in 2008 , the Commission's Retail Market Monitoring report in 2010 and the Commission Green paper on on-line gambling services in 2011. In April, 2011 he was appointed to his current position as the Head of Unit of MARKT D3 (Fight against Counterfeiting and Piracy).
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One in five teens in the study who gambled reported being in a depressed mood because of gambling, and 2 per cent experienced self-harm.
The study conducted by UNICEF, in partnership with the Gambling Research and Ludomania Prevention Center, surveyed one thousand adolescents aged 14-17 years all over the country to study their knowledge, attitudes and gambling practices. (...) One third of adolescents report that if they become addicted to gambling, they would not turn to anyone for help but try to solve the problem alone.
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