Are you a casino affiliate or want to become one learn some of the legal issues affecting this part of the performance base marketing industry. This article from AffiliateTips have some great affiliate marketing tips for many of you who still want to sell this type of services.
"Online poker and casino sites quietly operated in a gray area of the law for years in the US. While the US government evoked the Wire Act (which made placing sports bets over the telephone illegal) to claim that online gambling also was illegal (due to the fact that the Internet uses the same infrastructure that telephone calls are routed through), there was no real legal precedent for that claim. Millions of US players gambled at online casinos (which were all legally operated and licensed by companies in foreign countries) and exactly zero were ever charged with a crime.Online casinos marketed freely to US players (as it was their single largest market worldwide), with many affiliate marketers promoting various online casinos due to the generous commissions and general demand.
UIGEA
In late 2006, however, the UIGEA act was passed in the US, which changed the legal landscape for online gambling in the US. While the real purpose of the UIGEA was to force US banks to take an active role in preventing funds from being transferred to and from US citizens and online gambling sites, it did broadly address other areas of the industry, including very vague language to the effect that any online gambling company and its employees can be charged for knowingly marketing to US citizens. In the wake of the UIGEA some poker and casino affiliates did exit that line of business, choosing to be safe and wait and see exactly what the impact of the legislation would be, how it would be interpreted, and if the US government would ever actively pursue charges against anyone in the affiliate business."
Read the full story at "Casino Affiliate Legalities."
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