The Wire Act and Online Casinos

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How is it possible that a 44-year-old law pertaining to sports gambling over phone lines is now also used to enforce a blanket ban on online gambling in the United States when so many internet users no longer employ a phone line when they connect to the internet so that they can play online casinos games? For the sake of clarity, while the Justice Department does view online gambling as illegal according to interpretations of the 1961 Wire Act, rarely does the situation arise that a company supporting online casinos gambling or an individual using an online casino in the USA get prosecuted for such acts. Some may call it bureaucratic laziness, but others may call it a feeling in the gut of top Justice Department officials that the economic benefits of tacitly tolerating online casinos gambling by Americans outstrip the need to uphold antiquated laws.

But the fact remains that the U.S. would, if it really wanted to, crack down on online gambling use and operations by citing the Wire Act. However, the fact also remains that more and more Americans connect to the World Wide Web over cable lines instead of phone lines, and that an argument could be made that those Americans who gamble at online casinos using a cable connection of any kind do not violate the Wire Act since they do not engage in online gambling over a phone line – in other words, the method by which many Americans gamble online does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Wire Act.

The U.S. government might get its comeuppance in the area of online casinos gambling when an online casinos operator or a customer is brought before a court and their lawyer or lawyers make the exact same argument relating to the Wire Act’s jurisdiction. It is quite possible that the time has come for the U.S. government to take a look at its policy related to gambling at online casinos and see if perhaps something more logical than quoting an old, inapplicable law when making the case against online casinos would be the prudent thing to come up with. Or, the U.S. could just relent and pass laws which regulate online casinos operators vis-à-vis Americans and protect consumers who wish to spend their money they way they should legally be able to if they wish to do so.

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