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Caution Needed for the Online Casinos

The internet gambling industry has a lot of foes –and in some cases the foes are much more indirect than one would suppose. In addition to the interest groups and other organizations that speak against the online casinos, there are players and gamblers themselves looking to take a piece out of the lucrative gaming industry. Forums are an amazing source of information and help for the internet gambling industry, they are also a place where online casino gamblers are able to express their own opinions. The recent Betfair libel case in Ireland showcases the fact that forum owners need to be on alert. Although the EU has legislation in place protect e-commerce and e-organizations from the third-party content on their sites, those laws are only partly applicable to the internet gambling industry.

The Betfair case seems like it has finally turned for the positive for Betfair with the Irish High Court accepting the online casino betting and gambling group’s claim that its internet gambling forums were protected by the European E-Commerce Directive that was enacted in 2001 for the protection of internet based companies. The law very specifically protects companies from the third party opinions on the site.

In the Betfair online casino gambling case, this means that the libelous comments made on the Betfair forums about Ellen Martin and Seamus Mulvaney are not attributable to the gaming company itself. The libelous statements are owned by the person who posted them on the forum boards. Betfair, although the company won the case has learned an important lesson about monitoring the forum –legal battles are pricey!