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Stopping the Persecution

The US online casino gambling industry has caused global controversy because of its discriminatory enforcement of the laws that have specifically targeted foreign gambling sites while also providing a protectionist market for the US based gambling and betting companies. Although online casinos are banned completely, both domestic and foreign, the US has a large and thriving betting market which is closed off to foreign gambling companies under threat of huge fines and strong action from the US Department of Justice. The international community continues to demand that the US alter its controversial online gambling legislation.

While that process is taking place, the Remote Gaming Association, an organization that represents the interests of the European online casino gambling industry, is demanding that the persecution and prosecution stop. The EU is going to bat for the RGA with the US Trade Representatives and one of the chief concerns voiced by the RGA is the fact that the Department of Justice is specifically bringing up cases against European listed online casinos for activity in the US market before the UIGEA was even enacted. The RGA key demand is that the EU delegates negotiate a ceasing of the legal action against EU internet gambling groups.

Basically, although the EU has previously negotiated closed compensations agreements with the US because of the UIGEA and its impact on the EU gambling industry, the European gambling sites themselves are less interested in compensation and rather looking for the immunity from further unwarranted action from the US. Several major EU online casinos and gambling groups have paid out millions to the US as a way to just end the prosecution process and the RGA is looking to negotiate that no more prosecution is directed toward European internet gambling groups.