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Introduction

With the Internet, the standard licensor model has also come under external threat from the increasing provision of gambling via the Internet. Will it remain possible to control the market if citizens increasingly choose to gamble over the Internet?
   
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.
   
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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