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interactiveJumpstart Spotlight [1]Phillips Publishing International,
Inc.
Online Gambling Exec Praises Shutdown of Gaming Site
courtesy: Multimedia Wire
The chairman of an online gambling industry ethics panel praised the
effort of the Maryland attorney general to close down a gambling Web
site as an early move to regulate the fledgling online casino
industry.
Attorney General J. Joseph Curran issued a cease-and-desist order
against RealTIME Prizes Network for running Prizes.com, a site that
offers a variety of pay-for-play sweepstakes through customers' credit
cards or through CyberCash.
Online gambling can be done legally and legitimately, but only by
working with government regulators, said Kendell Lang, chairman of an
Interactive Services Association panel devising ethics for online
casino operators and CEO of CasinoWorld Holdings. RealTIME has "flown
in the face of regulators and gives the industry a bad name," Lang
said. "We want to support the attorneys general of each and every
state to get control of the situation."
Curran targeted RealTIME because its operations are in Silver Spring,
Md., a spokesman said. The attorney general could take additional
action if RealTIME were to move to another state and accept business
from Maryland residents, he added.
Despite the desist order, Prizes.com was still operational yesterday.
RealTIME was not immediately available for comment.
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