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Written by Thomas Jensen
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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 Everyone within the entire internet gambling industry is starting to take notice today of how the Bodog.com domain name hijacking applies to their businesses. No matter if you are an operator or an affiliate, everyone needs to realize that what happened to Calvin Ayre and Bodog Entertainment can happen to any other internet gambling operator.
Point-Spreads.com has spoken to several operators that have expressed their concern over the incident. While most of his competitors are usually overjoyed in his misery, all that we have spoken to have been nothing but supportive of the situation Ayre finds himself in after his prized domain name was redirected due to a default judgment against his company for $48 million dollars.
"We are watching what happens with the Bodog domain name case very closely," stated a Bodog competitor. "What happened to Calvin can happen to anyone in the internet gambling industry and our legal team is already advising us on how we should proceed to prevent this from happening to our domain names."
Mel Molnick has a registered patent that basically says he invented internet gambling. I know the thought of this reminds everyone reading this article of Al Gore bragging about how he invented the internet. On the surface it does appear as if Molnick created internet gambling, I am not joking either, at least as far as the US patent office is concerned! Everyone in the internet gambling industry realizes however that people were doing various forms of gambling via the internet before Molnick’s patent was awarded.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 August 2007 )
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Written by Thomas Jensen
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Wednesday, 29 August 2007
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 Turns out that Bodog Entertainment had its Bodog.com domain name hijacked from none other than opportunist Mel Molnick and the Home Gambling Network, Inc. (HGN) of Nevada. HGN is a wholly owned subsidiary of i2corp and owns a method patent that relates to live electronic betting from a remote location.
On Aug 1, 2007 a judge for the Superior Court of Kings County in Seattle, Washington handed down a foreign judgment in the amount of $48,937,456.00 in the case of 1ST TECHNOLOGY LLC VS BODOG ENT GROUP S.A.
Molnick's issued patents in:
European Patent No: 0 956 118
United States of America Patent # 5,800,268
Australian Patent #'s 755152 & 757705
Molnick's patent which governs "a method by which a person may participate in a live casino game and place bets from a location remote from the casino at which the game is being played" was filed with the U.S. Patent Office in 1995 and published in 1998 is also recognized in Europe and Asia.
The patent further describes a table with a live dealer whose image is broadcast to players at their remote locations. Point-Spreads.com has spoken to legal experts that believe Molnick is trying to broadly interpret a fairly narrow patent that specifically applies to internet casinos that use real dealers, something that Bodog does not do.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 29 August 2007 )
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Tuesday, 28 August 2007
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 "We are currently experiencing DNS issues with our website.
Until resolved, Bodog's customers should visit www.newbodog.com for the complete Bodog experience. Nearly all aspects of the website have been updated to reflect the environment clients are accustomed to at Bodog.com. We are working to resolve any remaining issues on the temporary site as soon as possible. These problems are the direct result of a dispute over the ownership of the Bodog.com domain name. We are fighting this dispute and are confident that we will win. I sincerely apologize to any customers affected by our interruption. We will have further updates as information becomes available." Calvin Ayre, Founder, Bodog.com |
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Written by John W. Miller from the Wall Street Journal
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Thursday, 23 August 2007
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 The Bush administration, pressured by an unfavorable ruling by the World Trade Organization, plans to push for legal changes that could make it easier for European service companies, from engineering firms to law firms and shipping companies, to do business in the U.S., officials say.
The U.S. is required to offer trading partners greater access to the American market because in May it lost a long-running dispute at the World Trade Organization over laws that banned foreign firms from offering Internet gambling services in the U.S.
• The News: The White House plans to push for changes that could make it easier for European service companies to do business in the U.S.
• The Background: After the U.S. banned foreign gambling Web sites, EU trade officials sought compensation for billions of euros in lost income. The U.S. has been in a trade dispute over online gambling since 2003, mainly with Antigua and Barbuda.
• What's Next: EU and U.S. negotiators are working out details of a compensation offer to open some sectors of the U.S. services market to greater foreign competition. Europe's online gambling firms were hit particularly hard and complained to the European Union's executive arm in Brussels. EU trade officials took up the matter with the WTO, seeking compensation for billions of euros in lost income. The EU invoked a rarely used WTO rule that requires a country that closes one market to foreign companies to open others to compensate trading partners.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 23 August 2007 )
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Written by Thomas Jensen
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007
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 The government of Holland is actively increasing the amount of money it is spending to advertise state controlled gambling. The Dutch government has a monopoly on the gambling market in Holland. Holland Casino and De Lotto, both owned by the state, have a monopoly on commercial gambling in the Netherlands.
Several foreign operators are currently trying to build land based casinos in the Netherlands but have been refused licenses by the government. The move is in direct contradiction to EU rules according to a letter from internal markets commissioner Charlie McCreevy that was recently leaked.
Holland Casino was recently granted the exclusive rights to provide internet gambling to the countries citizens. McCreevy has stated that the Netherlands is pursuing a ‘policy of expansion’ when it comes to the state monopoly on all forms of gambling and says there is no reason other European companies cannot enter the Dutch gambling market.
A justice ministry spokesman told ANP that the cabinet has replied to McCreevy's claims and that the government maintains its view that the state’s gambling monopoly reduces addiction and crime. While this may or may not be the case, the Netherlands government should start to open up its market to foreign competition or they could be forced to in much the same way as what is happening in France.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )
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