By giving customers cheap and easy access to a variety of gaming opportunities, the Internet can bring competition to an industry that has too long enjoyed the shelter of highly restrictive licensing practices. Freeing up the gambling market will help make payoffs more generous - and more honest. Internet gaming services have an acute regard for trustworthiness. They lack the usual signs of respectability, such as big buildings and established reputations, and they cannot count on legal monopolies to rope in customers. But with the Net, it wouldn't take long for the news groups to be abuzz.
Gamblers also deserve the same legal protections that other consumers enjoy.
Prohibition will not cut off access to Internet gaming. It will, however, cut off access to courts. Prohibition merely assures that Internet gamblers will have no recourse to legal remedies. Finally, the right to peaceably dispose of one's property surely includes the right to trade, throw, or gamble it away. The Founding Fathers understood this.