Industry News - Go to jail for playing online casino games?
December 5th, 2007 by The Dealer
Go to jail for playing casino games online? A Major national newspaper in Massachusetts The Boston Globe reported a in November that lawmakers in The Bay State are so disturbed by the concept of online casinos and online gambling that they have put forth an effort to punish “offenders” severely – and the state Governor, Deval Patrick, supports the measure. Licensed brick and mortar gambling is legal in Massachusetts, and, ironically enough, the same bill that would make online casino gambling a jailable offense also contains approval for the construction of three new land casinos in the state.
Obviously, the owners and operators of some of the biggest online casinos around are up in arms about Massachusetts’ hypocrisy. Gambling expert David G. Schwartz, who holds the title of director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, told a Globe reporter that it was fairly obvious that lawmakers were trying to arrange a monopoly for “their” casinos, off which the government draws sizeable tax revenues. Online gambling at internet casinos yield the state nothing, so it’s not exactly “cynical” (as Schwartz sarcastically termed it) to get to the conclusion that money was really at the root of the legislators’ move against online casinos.
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