Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

Still Online Casino Drama

The Kentucky online casino gambling situation just never seems to find an adequate solution – even though the case has now gone to the Kentucky Appeals Court, the governor and the state lawyers are blindly supporting the previous attempts to seize more than 140 internet gambling related domain names. The online casinos and the domain name registrars were the main opponents to the seizure attempt when the case first made headlines – many internet freedom activists and representatives from the industry really doubted that the Kentucky courts would find any legality in the seizure attempts. The case really made headlines when the first court modified the seizure request slightly but essentially agreed with Governor Steve Beshear and his efforts to seize the online gambling domain names on the notion that the domain names are an illegal gambling device.

Although some of the online casinos that are involved in the case have actually complied with Governor Beshear’s ridiculous requests, others have the support of industry organizations like iMEGA to put some funds and efforts behind the legal action. The Appeals Court ruled that the domain name seizure was unfounded and not supported by Kentucky state law. That ruling though has not put a rest to the issue unfortunately. Now that this case, which many thought would end in a dismissal by the courts, has progressed so far through the legal system with questionable rulings the whole way, the freedom of speech advocates and other watchdog groups are getting involved.

Internationally, the issue of internet censorship and how regional and national legislation is becoming a heated issue. The Kentucky State governor is attempting to pass through a seizure judgment that would really have a pretty negative affect on precedence setting for future cases that may not even involve the online casino gambling industry, but perhaps international businesses and e-commerce.