Most people don't realize that everything started in the United Kingdom - they were the first big and powerful country to legalize online gambling, and start giving licenses to online gaming companies. Companies such as Party Gaming and 888 Holdings came out of the shades and became publicly trading companies.



With the United stats being the major target for online gambling, despite the gray situation surrounding web betting and wagering (since it was not necessary over a wire), many U.K. licensed companies started advertising for the U.S. market and made it their main supplier of players.









But the biggest mistake that one could have ever made was to take advertising for online casinos and poker rooms out of the internet and move it into the TV. It seemed kind of "OK" to do it on the Internet, but after you brought the internet gambling to the millions of television sets - it got some unwanted attention and awareness.



Well, things look better there, but not by much. Internet gambling legislation comes to show people that the Union is not united, and it will take a long time before it is.



United Kingdom was the first from the E.U. countries to legalize online gambling. The Italy joined, after a 2 year ban. Now Spain has followed suit and is making gambling on the web legal. However, Germany just tried to introduce a federal online gambling ban (read the story here). Three of the German states already have local laws prohibiting wagering on the internet. France is also introducing similar bills trying to make gambling on the Internet illegal in their country. And all this, despite the fact that the European Trade Commission is trying to spread the legalization of online gambling throughout the Union.

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