They don't have the same static form of game that an electronic gambling machine has. Another important function of regulatory agencies is monetary control. An anonymous cash base industry such as the gambling industry sees huge amounts of money coming from players, flowing through the various games and tables and going into the pockets of the operators. Internet gambling will be no different. In fact, players might easily be shortchanged, tax obligations could be avoided, large prize payouts could be avoided by unscrupulous operators who might, as previously stated, disappear from the web overnight.
Age verification is another issue.
Much has been made recently of the ability of underage players to participate in Internet gambling without the knowledge or approval of their parents or guardians. While there are systems that might be able to be designed allowing some in person verification of players' ages prior to their registration on the gambling website, none of these systems are foolproof and none them have been proven yet to work 100 percent. This comes at the same time as we hear, as the previous panelists have said, that younger persons are increasingly attracted to gambling activities. Problem gambling is another issue that will have to be addressed in the Internet context. With powerful computers giving an individual online gambling site an increasingly accurate ability perhaps to track individual players, some say that online gambling might be the ultimate tool to weed out problem gambling.