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The letter, also signed by the Committee of Advertising Practice CAPP) and the Remote Gambling Association, said sanctions were possible if sites failed to comply with the CAP code, which requires marketing communications for gambling to be socially responsible.
Virginia A. Seitz, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's office of legal counsel, wrote in the opinion that the prohibition in the Wire Act of using interstate communications for gambling applies only to betting on a "sporting event or contest".
But the detection of the individual use of performance-enhancing drugs is more straightforward than that of collective match-fixing and spot-fixing, which is why the trial of the Pakistani trio and their agent, Mazhar Majeed, is such a rare example of its type, and so important at a time when modern communications enable gambling interests to extend their tentacles ever further.
The people were all evicted for the practice known as "courtsiding" – relaying information via smartphones or mobile communications devices to gambling syndicates to take advantage of broadcasting time delays.
"The main purpose of the moratorium is to halt the expansion of the interactive gambling industry in Australia while the government investigates the feasibility and consequences of a permanent ban on interactive gambling," said Richard Alston, minister for communications, information technology and the arts.
The event was attended by real estate and gambling executives, as well as Jennifer Cunningham, a communications strategist who consults for Genting.
But, throwing caution to the wind, the world's largest communications companies are pressing forward with a $300 billion gamble in the coming year.
Taken together, the two laws allowed the Justice Department to invoke its authority over interstate communications as a means of blocking all Internet gambling.
Research for communications regulator Ofcom found that the total number of gambling advertisement spots shown on television increased from 152,000 in 2006 to 1.39 million in 2012.
The gamble is whether Twitter users who have turned the microblogging service into global communications phenomenon will be willing to pay to get their 140-character messages noticed — and whether other Twitter users will view such paid placement as legitimate.
The CAP code states that marketing communications should protect children, young people and others vulnerable to gambling from being harmed or exploited.
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