17-May-06. Tough rules seen for Net gambling. Globe and Mail, B6.

In the keynote speech at the Global Interactive Gaming Summit and Expo, Stanford University law professor and author Lawrence Lessig said that it is a mistake to bet that the Internet gambling industry will escape the government’s ability to regulate. New technologies being developed by Microsoft and other software firms will soon make it possible to authenticate the identity of a computer user anywhere in the world. The ID technology will, in turn, allow governments to cooperate on a global approach to cyberspace regulation.