French casinos take foreign operators to court

Dan Taylor
February 10, 2010
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No, not that Emmanuelle

No, not that Emmanuelle

Ban Camembert and Brie, boycott Bordeaux and Chardonnay, throw away those ‘arty’ films starring Emmanuelle Beart you couldn’t bring yourself to chuck out. Ok, maybe keep them.

Thing is those pesky Frenchmen are at it again, seeking to bar Johnny Foreigner (that’s SportingBet, 888, Unibet and Bwin to you and me) from operating in France when the Gallic market is liberalized this summer. Read more.

And what if they don’t succeed? Can you set lorries on fire on the borders of cyberspace? They might have to think of something because the lawyers for the foreign operators are saying that they cannot be prosecuted in France because their servers are not based in French territory. So there. Read more.

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