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Major Web sites hit with suit over gambling ads
Published: August 3, 2004, 5:44 PM PDT
By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.comupdate Some gambling ads on Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites are illegal in California, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
The 60-page filing, presented in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that the companies sell rights to Web advertisements based on searches for terms such as “illegal gambling,” “Internet gambling” and “California gambling.”
The online businesses also use geotracking software to target particular regions, including California, for illegal gambling ads, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit demands that the companies stop accepting the advertisements and give California “millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains,” said attorney Ira Rothken, one of several attorneys from firms involved in the class-action lawsuit.
The suit is the latest to involve Internet gambling, which has become a multibillion-dollar-a-year business and is usually focused on online poker or blackjack. Wireless interests, including European cell phone service providers, also offer gambling opportunities to their subscribers.
Yahoo and Google, in turn, rake in a majority of the millions of dollars gambling firms spend on advertising, according to the lawsuit. Representatives from the two companies did not return a call seeking comment.
In all, about a dozen high-profile Web companies are named as defendants. Included among them is CNET Networks, publisher of News.com.
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Well, that fits right in there with suing Macdonalds for being fat and suing Burgerking because you poured hot coffee in your lap.
Originally posted by Dominique
Well, that fits right in there with suing Macdonalds for being fat and suing Burgerking because you poured hot coffee in your lap.Those are perfect comparisons that fit this scenario absolutely.
“The defendants conspired with the Internet gambling Web sites to create and provide Internet advertisements to areas such as California in which Internet gambling is illegal with the knowledge and intention of persuading and directing California residents to visit these illegal gambling Web sites so as to illegally gamble in California,” the lawsuit states. “
Does California actually have a law in place? If not why do these morons continue to mislead people? You’d think the so called reputable media would be interested in presenting facts. Leave the gossip to national enquirer …
