INTERNET GAMBLING
Popular, Inexorable, and (Eventually) Legal
by Tom W. Bell
Executive Summary
Introduction
facility that "is being used or will be used for the pur-
pose of transmitting or receiving gambling information" in
violation of law.44 As discussed in the next section, the
architecture of the Internet renders this provision utterly
impractical. Even if it were enforceable, the Goodlatte-
LoBiondo bill would make Internet communications less eco-
nomical, less efficient, and less secure.
Conclusion
Notes
15. Heubusch.
401 U.S. 808, 811 (1971), stating in dicta that "it cannot
be said, with certainty sufficient to justify a criminal
conviction, that Congress intended that interstate travel
by mere customers of a gambling establishment should vio-
late the Travel Act." But those cases do not address the
liability of interstate amateur bettors under § 1952(a)(1),
leaving the question unresolved.
37. Sutin, p. 1.
45. Sutin, p. 7.
49. Sutin, p. 7.
60. Sutin, p. 6.
and then they turn around and say regulate it. I think
they're being disingenuous." Quoted in Joe Salkowski,
"Betting on the Horses," April 15, 1998, <http://dispatches.
azstarnet.com/features/1998/0415.htm>.