Online Gambling – Betting, bluffing, gambling: Online gambling is booming. But what is legal and how can you protect yourself against rip-offs?

The following article was originally published in German in the 10/2013 issue of CHIP, one of the leading computer and communications magazines.

by Benjamin Hartlmaier, CHIP ONLINE

Internet gambling is booming: Online casinos are open 24/7, you do not have to leave the house to play, which in return reduces the costs of board and lodging and the virtual roulette and poker tables also always have a seat open. According to estimations by analysts from H2 Gambling Capital, 6.7 billion U.S. dollars were generated with online poker world-wide in 2012. … Continue Reading

Serving Cookies in Spain

by Samuel Martin, Senior Associate, Asensi Abogados

Nobody in the 20^th century would expect that serving cookies would be such a complex matter for European regulators in the following century and nothing does it have to do with cholesterol.

When speaking about cookies in the Internet, a broad approach to them needs to be considered as it covers every software installed in users devices when they access a website or download a software application, by which the owner of such website/app or any of its providers, collects information of any kind from such users and his/her device. … Continue Reading

Too expensive, too dangerous: Regulated online poker is unsuitable for money laundering

New TÜV study develops assessment criteria for regulators and providers

by Ansgar Lange

Vienna, September 2013. Whenever in recent years discussions in the context of the German inter-state treaty on gambling (GlüStV) have touched on the issue of the regulation of the online poker market, critics of such regulation argued with the horror scenario of money laundering – an argument which up to now has not been sustainable. … Continue Reading

Remote gaming – consultation ends and the ministry digests

Alan Littler of Kalff Katz & Franssen has recently published a short article about the consultation process concerning the proposed remote gaming bill as published by the Dutch Ministry of Security & Justice in May 2013. The article entitled “Remote gaming – consultation ends and the ministry digests” was published in Issue 5 (2013) of iNTERGAMINGi (www.intergameonline.com).

Find the published article here

Hans-Jörn Arp and Wolfgang Kubicki: Granting of licenses in the remaining 15 states threatened to fail due to legal difficulties?

Published on 25 September 2013

German version: http://www.isa-guide.de/isa-gaming/articles/93446.html

“For over a year now, the remaining 15 federal states have not managed to grant sports betting and online-casino licenses on the basis of the current Interstate Treaty on Gambling. Obviously, there are enormous legal problems regarding the implementation of this treaty. … Continue Reading