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Copycat UIGEA proposed by culture minister
By Burke Hansen San Francisco → More by this authorPublished Thursday 29th November 2007 09:24 GMTDesktop Support under the spotlight, have your say on the 11th December Norway's Minister of Culture and Church affairs has decided that the future of online gambling is American-style ineffectual regulatory madness, according to iGamingBusiness, among others.
Minister Trond Giske had initially intended to adopt a full-fledged version of the much-derided American legislation but, perhaps due to public ridicule, chose instead to try to sneak UIGEA-style regulation of banks and financial institutions onto existing gambling legislation. A "clarification", as it were. Either way, the bill would shift costs and responsibilities from law enforcement to the private sector.
By Burke Hansen San Francisco → More by this authorPublished Thursday 29th November 2007 09:24 GMTDesktop Support under the spotlight, have your say on the 11th December Norway's Minister of Culture and Church affairs has decided that the future of online gambling is American-style ineffectual regulatory madness, according to iGamingBusiness, among others.
Minister Trond Giske had initially intended to adopt a full-fledged version of the much-derided American legislation but, perhaps due to public ridicule, chose instead to try to sneak UIGEA-style regulation of banks and financial institutions onto existing gambling legislation. A "clarification", as it were. Either way, the bill would shift costs and responsibilities from law enforcement to the private sector.
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