Online Sports Betting: Legal or Unlawful?

Sports betting or gambling has grown to be more and more popular through the years. Its popularity was further intensified with the growth of online sports betting, also known as internet gambling. However, online sports betting have long been the topic of most controversies. And, one specific area of discussion is its legality.

Usually, when it comes to considering online sports betting, it is so common for people to wonder if theyre breaching any local or state law. As you might know, sports betting happen to be deemed illegal in several countries on this planet, and one particular area that strongly uphold anti-sports betting law is the North America.

However, it is just until recently that this regulating online sports betting was left entirely on the discretion of the individual states in North America, and to some extent, the dawn of online sports betting created certain degrees of confusion about the jurisdiction. One main question that prevails is who runs the laws in the virtual world. As you may know, some of the current gambling laws were generally created and proposed prior to the coming of the internet. This truth is what actually makes the application to those established laws open to different interpretation.

Besides the question on the online sports betting laws, another question was raised by the concerned public, which is, if it is legal to run sports betting on the internet or offshore and take action from clients in the Usa? Well, the regular response to this by the US government is that offshore or online sports betting are not legal.

So it is given that online sports betting are deemed illegal by the US government. However, numerous reports have revealed that no bills happen to be passed to prevent the practice of online sports betting. Much worse is the fact that, several efforts to pass bills in order to prevent the enduring popularity of online sports betting dramatically failed.

Perhaps one particular belief that caused the failure of the passing of those anti-sports gambling laws is that the government has placed much of the responsibility of the legislations for gambling in the hands of individual states, in which some of those states have approved the concept of online sports gambling.

A number of those states in fact voted on legalizing the internet sports betting, and North Dakota is one of them. On the other hand, there are other states like Illinois that have added certain legislations that strictly prohibit the promotion of internet casinos within the state. As far as I know, only three states in the US have strongly prohibited its people from gambling beyond the state borders: California, Louisiana and Nevada.

Today, since some states have enforced anti-gambling laws, although loosely, several sportsbooks on the internet have decided to remain offshore in foreign countries. And, to avoid breaching the laws, they rather put in place their computer servers also offshore. It is just somehow essential to remember that although anti-gambling laws are passed, no citizen has been arrested for considering online sports betting.