As European countries change their extant overriding gambling laws to be more in line with EU free-trade policies, the legal situation from an international standpoint is confusing at best.
Nations in South America and Asia are slightly more slowly reworking things with gaming in their own legal structures, while the fight to decriminalize online gambling in the U.S. -- currently under the tyranny of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, a holdover from the last Bush Administration -- continues in Congress.
For some information and news on online gambling laws, see the articles below.