Foreword
The expansive growth of gambling and the evolution oftechnology inevitably have converged to produce the world’s fastest-growingonline industry: Internet gambling. Global revenues from this relatively recentphenomenon were $16 billion in 2006; estimates are that they will reach $150billion by 2010. The currentlegal status of online gambling in the United States is unclear — theinternational nature of the Internet makes prohibition easy to evade anddifficult to enforce. There is no U.S. law specifically preventinggambling on the Internet, but some states have banned the practice or placedrestrictions on it, and a few online casino operators have been prosecutedunder the federal Wire…
