Online Casinos Avoid IP Tracking
Monitoring and regulating the online casino gambling industry in Korea is
becoming more and more difficult now that internet gambling site operators are
increasingly Web savvy. Currently, the Korean government is firm that that
through the different state departments the government will come up with
effective measures to ban the illegal online casinos from servicing Korean
citizens.
Multiple governing agencies will work together to tighten the current
restrictions that are just not effectively eliminating online casinos. The
Korean Ministry of Information and Communication is spearheading the effort and
has announced that it will be working with the National Police Agency and the
Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Information and Communication Ethics
Committee. Current actions include a ban on currency-trading Web sites that is a
new addition to the Game Industry Promotion Act. These actions will all serve to
monitor and control the online casino gambling industry in Korea as now the
government will have the power to thoroughly review gaming sites before Koreans
can actually begin playing.
But that is where the powers may stop say some because of the increasing ability
for online casinos to mask their true nature long enough for players to register
on the sites and begin gambling. Tough the National Police Agency is
consistently adding more online casino gambling sites to the block list – IP
evasion makes this task difficult to enforce 100 percent of the time.
The Director of Information Safety Team at the Information Ministry commented on
the way online casinos use this technology. “Illegal online gambling sites sign
up members through a secret IP address at a specific time. And such sites are
hard to find because they are increasingly good at evading IP tracking.”
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