There are moments when regulation becomes so complicated that everybody starts discussing procedures and forgets to look at the obvious thing sitting in front of them. Lottoland.com is one of those moments. Germany's national gambling regulator says the international site has no German permission, is not on the official whitelist and is illegal for German consumers. Lottoland, meanwhile, is still online, still publishing German-language lottery pages and still telling readers on its current El Gordo page that German players can participate legally from Germany. Those two positions cannot both describe the same......
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