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Better than nothing?
 June 15, 2008, 8:06 am (3 years ago)What would you do if your country has set out the law that would limit how much and how long you can bet per game? It seems like you don’t have a choice if you are living in Norway as Norway's Minister of Culture and Churches, Trond Griske has introduced new regulations on gambling machines that will limit how much a player can bet per game, how long they can play and how much they can lose per day or month.
The government has taken increasing reports of compulsive gambling in Norway in consideration, and last year completely banned ordinary slot machines. Instead, the sate monopolized lottery company will control new video machines remotely and will not take cash or credit cards, operated only by prepaid electronic cards sold by the Norske Tipping and registered in the name of specific players.
Griske has proposed his ideas before on controlling Internet gambling in Norway, suggesting a UIGEA-like solution of forbidding financial transactions with online gambling companies. Such a protectionist move would be favored by state gambling monopoly Norske Tipping, although it might have to face with EU principles of free movement of trade and services between EU member states.
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