Garden of Eden for
Gamblers |
For gamblers, the Internet represents a
365/24 gateway, open night and day
throughout the year, with immediate and
unlimited access at home; basically, it can
facilitate betting anywhere, anyplace,
anytime. As the number of Internet users
increases, the number who gamble over the
Internet will follow suit.
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Threats to Local
Gambling Markets |
The globalisation of the gambling market via
the Internet poses a considerable risk that
any society will lose control. The Internet
also provides foreign gambling companies
with a gateway to individual national
markets.
Foreign gambling companies were once
stumped by the trouble of receiving stakes
by telephone or through facsimile machines.
With the Internet, however, the gambling
company on the other side of the world has
suddenly been provided with the technical
possibility to operate in any market at any
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