Comments on Sport is made for betting: dithering idiot tries to protect his monopoly

Funny that the DFB (German FA) have themselves sai...

2009-12-21T13:04:37.339Z

Funny that the DFB (German FA) have themselves said that commercial sports betting in the country would mean fighting fraud and match fixing an awful lot easier - see http://tiny.cc/RwLZs (German Language). This chap is protecting his own back, nothing more, as his company would be screwed if they were actually allowed some decent competition!

No chance of the UK legislating against betting fi...

2009-12-16T13:10:34.502Z

No chance of the UK legislating against betting firms - it is a major industry there. The US didn't suddenly ban online poker, they just suddenly started to enforce the existing bans on online gaming. France is the only country to have specifically banned betting exchanges, the others are opposed to online sports betting completely.

The EU says online gambling is legal and have instructed all member states to allow and regulate it - but the various countries with existing government-owned monopolies will take as long as they possibly can in order to protect what they already have.

Hi Scott, It's always interesting to read your vie...

2009-12-16T11:22:36.885Z

Hi Scott, It's always interesting to read your views on these legal issues, to be honest they go over my head! Is the whole of Europe and the USA against online betting exchanges? As the legal systems in each EU country are brought into line, is it likely that the UK would also have to legislate against them? The way the USA shut down the customers of the big Poker sites basically overnight is quite scary. What do you reckon, is Betfair safe?!?!? MG