Monday, December 21, 2009

THE MONOPOLIES IN THE GAME INDUSTRY

The European Union is a free market area, and in theory, citizens in the European countries can benefit from that as they are able to have access to a great number of products and services offered by any country member. This possibility to choose is always convenient for the population, as they can select the products and services that best fit their needs.

This possibility to choose should be the same for the online games industry, as for instance online casinos and poker rooms.
However, that is not happening, and in fact one of the advisors of the European Court of Justice has just affirmed that the different countries have the right to defend their game monopolies. To protect their monopolies they could create game laws that will make difficult for overseas competitors to settle in their countries or for players to have access to their sites.

Therefore, the players in those countries will have a more limited choice.
However a more open legislation will give to the players the chance of choosing among a wide range of online casinos and game rooms in order to find the one that suits better their needs.



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