In 2006, the United States got what it had been attempting to do for a long time, criminalize online sports betting for all citizens. Internet gambling, however, was and remains to this day a complicated issue. The Interstate Wire Act of 1961 was passed to stop sports gambling activity conducted over the telephone. Many people have been confused as to whether this act also applies to the Internet. As the act was enacted prior to the invention of the Internet, nobody was confident whether the law applied or not. Further, the act did not specify the type of gambling it was intended to control. Did it apply to all sorts of gambling or was it just betting on sports?

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