Digital Markets

Online gaming, betting and the consumer internet treated as markets rather than as entertainment: who owns the operator, what the licence actually permits, how the product is priced, and which regulator can switch it off. The commercial side of this industry is documented far better than its participants like to admit, and most of the documentation is public.

So that is what we read: operator filings and group accounts, the public registers kept by gambling regulators, enforcement notices, and court records when a dispute gets that far. Terms and conditions are read in full, because that is where the conditions live. Several pieces in this section are written in the language of the market they describe, since a Danish licence condition is worth reading in Danish.

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