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A Black Market for France

The potential opening of the French online casino gambling market has been all of the news lately in the industry media. A lot of the foreign gambling groups have patiently waited over the past several years for the French government to deliver the long-promised EU friendly gambling regulations. Those EU consistent regulations have never arrived and instead the offshore betting companies and online casinos have the option to legally enter the French market knowing that the market is rigged with a preference toward the French state-owned gambling group and that foreign gambler operators will have to pay huge taxes that might negate any potential profit. This sad fact is pretty much a forgone conclusion if the French government decides to continue ahead with the EU rejected gambling regulations.

The French government is really only hurting the people of France by not agreeing to a robust and fair online casino gambling market because there is every likelihood that the French officials are about to create a strong black market for gambling in France that is similar to the black market that exists in the US right now. France plans to only accept licensed and specific online casinos into the market – but without an ISP block in place how will the French officials keep the other sites out?

And then there is the issue of whether France can keep the foreign online casinos out of the market. The US is a haven for black market gambling sites – sites that operate out of the government’s control. This type of activity is only dangerous for the gamblers themselves because the government has no ability to control which sites are accessing their players and players have no way to report problems and issues.