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By Mike Brunker
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 12:37 p.m. ET Oct. 13, 2006
It took Congress more than a decade to pass a ban on Internet gambling. Now comes the hard part.
After President Bush made online gambling illegal Friday by signing the port security bill containing the prohibition, federal officials will have 270 days to devise a way of identifying electronic gambling transactions and preventing Americans from taking part in them.
Many experts on gambling, e-commerce and the law say the odds are extremely long that the feds will be able to come up with a set of regulations that will accomplish what the lawmakers want to impose on what has grown to become a $12 billion-a-year industry.
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