U.S. authorities want to make online gambling a purely domestic issue by opting out of international trade rule commitments, but the E.U. insisted Wednesday that the U.S. must honour those rules in the meantime. U.S. authorities want to make online gambling a purely domestic issue by opting out of international trade rule commitments, but the E.U. insisted Wednesday that the U.S. must honour those rules in the meantime.

 U.S. laws restricting Internet gambling and the way they have been applied to prosecute European Web site owners are discriminatory and break World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, the European Commission said in a final report on the issue that was published Wednesday. Basically this will mean all online lotto sites, online casinos, scratch cards and general betting will be afected by this endevour. Read more of this story here