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Redeye.se is an equity research company that is focused on the Nordic market. On their website they have a banner to Betssons stock “betting” website, Betsson Trader, where you can bet on stock. Essentially you can “trade” stocks without actually buying them.
Lotteriinspektionen has told Redeye to remove this banner because they consider it a gaming banner and they are prohibited by Swedish law. Redeyes own blog post on the topic is very insightful and asks the question that needs to be asked: Does this mean that trading stock is a game of chance?
The legal developments surrounding Online gaming in general is very interesting to follow and one by one the EU countries make moves towards opening their markets. The poker market is a very prominent example of this where Italy has already regulated online tournament poker and is likely to open up cash games soon, France is drafting a regulation law for Poker as I write this and I think it’s only a matter of time until Germany and the UK will follow. It’s not unlikely that the US will come to the obvious conclusion that banning online gaming isn’t the solution to the gaming problem nor the financial shortcomings it may bring when overseas providers “take” money from your citizens and hence that money leaves the country, because that’s what all these legislations boil down to, sovereign states want their citizens to pay tax where they live.
With regulated markets there’s a way to come around this financial issue and with the EG directives about open trade and fair markets that’ll be the only alternative for the EU countries over time.
The question is, how long will it take for Sweden to realize that 17th century politics and laws doesn’t apply to 21st century technology and public opinion.
2009/10/12 11:25 | Internet - Online Gaming Legislation - Poker | Trackback | No Comments »
Even if you solve puzzles online there’s no guarantee that you won’t end up with missing pieces…
2009/10/07 21:04 | Humor - Internet | Trackback | No Comments »
According to http://www.earticlesonline.com EU has declared UIGEA a violation of trade agreements between the European Union and the US.
This is very interesting, especially in the light of what is currently going on within the EU with the Check Republic that is about to open up and France soon to follow.
Source article: http://www.earticlesonline.com/article.php?id=560768
2009/05/28 15:09 | Internet - Poker | Trackback | 4 Comments »
This is probably just bad luck but it’s funny still 
Have a look at this screenshot from ottobonis blog
I love the positioning of the click counter in the bottom left corner.
2009/05/11 10:45 | Humor - Internet | Trackback | No Comments »
I just came across a website that turns your website into bacon!
Try it out!
2009/05/05 15:13 | Food - Humor - Internet - Private | Trackback | 1 Comment »
Sadly it is true.
I’ve opened a new facebook account. I realized that I need one…
I won’t be posting much stuff on it though, just the bare minimum.
2009/04/24 7:31 | Internet - Private | Trackback | 1 Comment »
First of all, what just happened?
Second, was this really thought through?
This conviction is hilarious. And it’s absurd.
It’s already been clarified that The Pirate Bay in itself isn’t illegal, the conviction concerns the opportunity provided to download illegally, there’s a very big difference in this and it’s a difference that makes the conviction absurd.
What it basically says is that any website, server, connected peripheral equipment etc. that in anyway makes copyrighted material available to the public is providing an opportunity to perform illegal actions with intention.
What kind of sites does that? Of course we have The Pirate Bay and tons of other file share sites.
But we also have Google, Flickr, youtube… the list is long. I’ve probably posted copyrighted material on this very blog so I guess I should be locked up as well.
What to do, what to do… I need to get my head around this one, might post more on the subject later.
2009/04/17 11:24 | Internet | Trackback | No Comments »
The news just landed, the four men behind The Pirate Bay has been convicted.
Yet, you can find this on svt.se if you look around a bit.
http://svt.se/2.22620/1.1523194/friande_dom_i_pirate_bay-malet
We’ll see how long it takes them to take it down.
11:25 – still up
2009/04/17 11:11 | Commercial - Internet | Trackback | 1 Comment »
It seems Internet Explorer is in trouble.
A security flaw can make any web page malicious and according to Microsoft themselves it isn’t only version 7 of IE that’s affected but every version out there.
In short, if you are using IE, switch your browser now. At least until this has been sorted out,
http://www.mozilla.com/
http://www.google.com/chrome
More information on this topic can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/961051.mspx
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001561.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7784908.stm
2008/12/16 13:26 | Internet - Internet Explorer - Security | Trackback | No Comments »
