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Home History Games News Dictionary		continued from Static South Africa - 1 Secondarily, is the location of the credit card holder when the transaction is processed. Though it may currently be illegal to gambling in South Africa, if a resident were traveling elsewhere in the world and decided to pop into a casino, they would be perfectly within their rights to do so, and those transactions should not be blocked, despite the offshore location. “The systems that process all such transactions have no easy way of telling the difference,” explained the Times article. Not unlike the joke of a debacle that continues to plague the American internet gambling market, the South African government has now said that it’s the banks’ responsibility to figure out the legal mess. Apparently, instead of properly regulating the now legal online casino industry, in their delay, the politicians have asked the financial industry to figure out a way to make the proper distinctions between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ transactions. In all likelihood, it could well mean a lot of time, money, and effort going in to create a system that could end up being antiquated by the end of the year. Of course, active credit card companies in South Africa will be mandated to contribute. The goal will be not only to determine what exactly was purchased with the cards, but from whom and where the transactions originated, as well as the physical location of the user at the time of the use. Banks, and credit card companies have so far been able to agree on one thing: they have no enthusiasm for their new responsibilities, and the vast majority believe that the costs in man power and currency alike will not be worth it. A final complication comes with the location of the servers used to operate an online casino. The best example comes from a long-standing case between the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, and South African authorities, as the Casino maintains that use of their site doesn’t constitute illegal gambling in South Africa since their servers are located outside of the country and players are able to stream Flash media games without ever downloading. Since the games, the software, and the casino itself are all located outside of SA’s borders, Piggs Peak says they are outside of the litigation’s jurisdiction.

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Secondarily, is the location of the credit card holder when the transaction is processed. Though it may currently be illegal to gambling in South Africa, if a resident were traveling elsewhere in the world and decided to pop into a casino, they would be perfectly within their rights to do so, and those transactions should not be blocked, despite the offshore location. “The systems that process all such transactions have no easy way of telling the difference,” explained the Times article.

Not unlike the joke of a debacle that continues to plague the American internet gambling market, the South African government has now said that it’s the banks’ responsibility to figure out the legal mess. Apparently, instead of properly regulating the now legal online casino industry, in their delay, the politicians have asked the financial industry to figure out a way to make the proper distinctions between ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ transactions. In all likelihood, it could well mean a lot of time, money, and effort going in to create a system that could end up being antiquated by the end of the year.

Of course, active credit card companies in South Africa will be mandated to contribute. The goal will be not only to determine what exactly was purchased with the cards, but from whom and where the transactions originated, as well as the physical location of the user at the time of the use. Banks, and credit card companies have so far been able to agree on one thing: they have no enthusiasm for their new responsibilities, and the vast majority believe that the costs in man power and currency alike will not be worth it.

A final complication comes with the location of the servers used to operate an online casino. The best example comes from a long-standing case between the Piggs Peak Casino in Swaziland, and South African authorities, as the Casino maintains that use of their site doesn’t constitute illegal gambling in South Africa since their servers are located outside of the country and players are able to stream Flash media games without ever downloading. Since the games, the software, and the casino itself are all located outside of SA’s borders, Piggs Peak says they are outside of the litigation’s jurisdiction.