| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | What Online Gambling Needs to Do to Survive
- Sunday, 12 Nov 2006
Very few are those gamblers online who have not heard about the online gambling legislation in the United States, which has denied online casinos company's customers and American online gamblers the ability to play games online. What the decision of the Congress means for online gambling is that an unmistakable and unavoidable shift must be made immediately if the industry wants to rehabilitate itself from the significant blow Washington has dealt it. Like other industries, if the online gambling industry is resilient, then it should be fine.
If it seizes up in fear, though, then you can probably count out online gambling as ever growing beyond being anything more than a fringe hobby, undertaken by the disaffected few of the overall gambling public who shun land-based casinos or bingo halls, preferring instead the familiar comforts of home. The choices being faced by the online gambling world are really quite simple: persevere and adapt, or give up and disappear. Neither might seem to be an enviable course in tough times, but the time to make decisions is now.
In the end, online gambling will likely endure by sheer force of momentum. The banning of online gambling in the United States will likely only lead it to go underground there and not totally disappear, while in the United Kingdom proponents will continue their efforts to set up an online gambling licensing structure which could pave the way for a future American model along the same lines | |
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