Tag: The Future of Tech

Chance or Skill: Fantasy Sports Leagues and Gambling

Posted on by Tech Law Forum @ NALSAR

This piece has been authored by Karthik Subramaniam, a second year student at NALSAR University of Law. It discusses the debate surrounding Fantasy Gaming Leagues and gambling.

Spectator sports have been popular since time immemorial. fantasy sports leagues across the world have gained huge fan bases and manage to rake in massive revenues. The National Football League (NFL), the premier American Football tournament in the United States managed to generate revenue of around 13,680 million USD in 2017, which surpasses the GDP of almost 64 countries. Many individuals see these leagues as geese that lay golden eggs, thereby, motivating them to get involved.

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Meet the New Internet, Same as the Old, Old Internet – except its not the Internet (Part III – the Future of Networks)

Posted on by Kartik Chawla

This is the third post in this series; the first two, which set the background for the issue, are available here and here.

The question therefore becomes – is it time we look beyond the ‘internet’ as it exists, to newer models of communication? The ‘models’ I refer to here are not absolutely novel – nothing under the sun is. These models still rely on the TCP/IP protocol, still use parts of the ‘internet’, still use the network laid down for it – learn from it, and improve it. These models, in fact, bring to mind the original image that was created of the internet, so much so that we can actually call these models of communication the legacies of the ideas of the ‘original internet’, challenging the dominance of the ‘neo-internet’. So is it time we focus on these models, develop them, and mark the decline of the ‘neo-internet’?

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