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Goodbye to Internet Revenue

Toto Lotto is just one of the many companies all over Europe with a gripe about the German anti-online casino gambling legislation that took effect in January of this year. Toto Lotto is the state lottery of Lower Saxony; the company has previously enjoyed a pretty free reign when it came to internet based advertising as a way to entice German lottery gamblers. A recent court ruling though has changed all of that and now the foreign online casino gambling companies seem to have a supporter on the inside as it would seem. Toto Lotto will undoubtedly feel the revenue affects from banning internet based lottery advertising but because of Germany’s protectionist and anti-online casino gambling approach right now there is little hope that the legislation will change immediately.

The German legislation banning forms of online casino gambling and internet gambling advertisements came as a shock to much of Europe because of Germany’s negotiations with the European Commission regarding the nation’s monopolistic internet gambling legislation. The legislation was upheld in a Lower Saxony court and Toto Lotto is not able to appeal the verdict.

The problem with the whole situation though comes down to the fact that Toto Lotto’s questionable advertisement that breaks the rules of the anti-online casino gambling legislation involved an ad on the company’s own site. And to make the situation just a bit more absurd, the courts all over Germany are having trouble interpreting the legislation and have disagreed on the appropriateness of the online gambling ban in light of German laws concerning freedom of services, not to mention the ongoing concerns and debate coming from the European Commission on the legislation.