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The international internet gambling industry has really taken exception to the recent developments in the US’s negotiations concerning the Wire Act. The Wire Act was designed to apply specifically to telephone sportsbetting; even if the one were to stretch the application of the Wire Act, it would, at most, then apply to internet sportsbetting. The US Department of Justice though insists that the Wire Act has applicability to online casino gambling in the US prior to the implementation of the controversial UIGEA – this is where foreign online casinos are expressing outrage – along with the biased prosecution.

The European Union has already launched an inquiry into the US’s continued prosecution of online casinos that operated in the US pre-UIGEA…the US though is entirely unsupportive of the investigation and refuses to take a pause in the continued negotiations and prosecution of pre-UIGEA online casino activity.

The RGA sent a letter of outrage to EU and WTO authorities highlighted some of the major concerns and really pinpointing the main contention by online casinos and internet gambling companies. The RGA statement notes, "This is the first time this Act has been applied to Internet gambling beyond sports-betting.” The letter continues to note that online casinos are facing heavy fines in the US “despite never offering sports-betting and ceasing to accept US customers for…poker and casino games when the still-controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act 2006 was passed.

The US DoJ has really only targeted a handful of European online casinos that are looking to handle these negotiations completely above-board. Many internet gambling companies that operated in the US prior to the UIGEA are not facing DoJ legal action – this spotty prosecution of online gambling companies is raising hackles.