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So what happens now?
The ramifications for the gaming industry not just the online ones are huge, what was seen as an industry of the future built on the brightest tool of the future has now been
plunged into a darkness that obliterates reason.
The Morale High Ground that has been built is as you would build a blockade in backgammon, placing several checkers into a position that prohibits the opposition from moving. By implementing the online legislation yet to be signed into law by US President Bush, the Moral fraternity of the US has scored an impressive blockade over the online gaming industry, preventing them from moving and in fact making them play a back game, for which there is nowhere to run.
But surely there is too much equity involved in a decision such as this; too much has been invested in the online industry to just fold as you would in Poker. The gamble that has been taken by sites such as 888.com PartyGaming and others has been based on a growing reaction to the idea of online gaming. The convenience of gaming in your own home rather than at the tables of a casino was one of the reasons why gaming had become so attractive online, that and the opportunity to change your life with the turn of a card or the roll of a dice.
What was so wrong with that and how is that so different from playing the lottery, the horses or bingo? All can be equally addictive, if not controlled by the individual.
Or why not penalise the stock market itself surely a bigger gamble than any other form of legitimate gambling on the planet, yet you don't see Wall Street closing off its tables or packing away its cards.
If the main reason for this decision lies with the Morality seekers then why not impose legislation and control which would help to de-demonise the so called online gambling devils that the Christian brotherhood despises so much.
The business world imposed the Sarbanes Oxley Act in light of the Enron and World Com scandals closing possible fraud loopholes in accountancy and other tax dollar additives. Why not gaming?
The problem is that nobody really knows the answer, given that in most States gambling is illegal, yet there are still ways to get around it. Gaming is allowed in Florida, New Jersey and of course Nevada, home of Las Vegas the gambling haven of the western world. Gambling is also allowed on Native American land, or on certain floating casinos. In Louisiana visitors are encouraged to play at the floating casinos adding more valuable tax revenue to the States funds.
So again what is wrong with online gambling?
Whilst perhaps traditional gaming bases have more control, the freedom of online gaming allows far too much possibility for individual corruption, this in part plays into the hands of the morale brigade. One hundred per cent absolute recognition of a player is not yet possible, not even forensics or laser technology is perfect enough to confirm that the person pressing the keys on the key board is who they say they are. This leads to ambiguity and a certain trust element that frankly can be abused.
If this problem could be resolved then at least the gaming industry would know who was really at the end of the keyboard. And be assured of their legitimacy to play.
Restrictions on gaming such as limiting the pots to small amounts would lose the players; gaming is about winning and winning big. Playing for fun is not the same as playing for money. Backgammon is testimony to that, for so long this game was a parlour game, now with the internet it reaches new dimensions, new audiences, creating new possibilities for the game.
Unlike the chance games of mainstream gambling Backgammon requires skill and a little guile to win matches, players have seen its immense potential and have come to love its diversity, but this is only really due to the element of real money play.
In the coming weeks the gaming industry will endure an uncomfortable existence, waiting anxiously for the outcome of one man's hand on a piece of paper. This action once signed and delivered will then take approximately 270 days for the financial institutions to put into place, in the course of those 270 days the possible future of online gaming in the US will be decided.
Countless legal arguments will spill forth over legal desks and argument after counter argument will be examined, this legal tennis will no doubt force players and companies to look for other options, some legitimate some maybe not so.
When alcohol was nominated as the demon drink in the 20's and 30's the US imposed prohibition outlawing the sale of alcohol and its consumption, this decision created one of the darkest periods in the social history of the United States with open war fare on the streets and an industry based on organised crime.
Could online gaming mean the beginning of another dark age where illegal gambling online becomes the new alcohol for organised crime and the precursor to more illegal activities?
In the land of freedom and with a constitution that boasts government for the people by the people, it is odd how one section of government is prepared to gamble with its people's future.
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