Can I Perform Online Sports Betting?
Since 2006 it has been illegal for any citizen of the United States to gamble on online sport gaming. Gambling on the internet was complex when that law was passed, and still remains so. In 1961 the Interstate Wire Act was passed to prevent people from gambling using the phone. Since the internet has come out, people have been curious if this law was applicable to the internet as well. The reason that this was a question was because the internet wasn’t invented until after the Interstate Wire Act of 1961 was passed. To compound the confusion, the Act didn’t clarify what forms of gambling it was meant for. The question that remained was, was the Act against all types of gambling, or only betting on sports.
