Appeal Arguments In Internet-Gaming Statute Challenge

In the high-stakes court battle over the constitutionality of a federal law that bans all Internet gambling transactions that would be illegal in the gambler's state, a trio of federal appeals judges in Philadelphia appeared unlikely to strike the law down.

13 minute read July 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM
By
Shannon P. Duffy
Appeal Arguments In Internet-Gaming Statute Challenge

[Editor's Note: The growth of online video games, online gambling, virtual Second Life societies, content downloads and file sharing have required the entertainment and media industries to consider the international reach of laws ' such as the criminal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ' that are related to these activities.

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