Is it legal to sell soccer predictions online? Like predicting which team to win and selling it as a service?
K.L asked:
I saw many websites offering this service online (predicting soccer results for a fee). No doubt they contain disclaimers saying thats not betting. Just wanna find out is this legal?
I saw many websites offering this service online (predicting soccer results for a fee). No doubt they contain disclaimers saying thats not betting. Just wanna find out is this legal?
May 27th, 2008 at 6:01 am
NO it is illegal
May 27th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
I am not so sure about the answer above… As far as I know it is illegal to bet, gamble on sports events… But sports commentators predict results all the time and they get paid…
May 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
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May 31st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Depending which country you are in, selling soccer predictions should be perfectly legal in most countries. Proving a direct connection between selling soccer predictions and betting would be very very difficult in law.
Selling your own knowledge (as long as it is your own knowledge and not of an illegal subject, of which prediction is not) is not illegal so why should this be any different.
As long as the web site has no ties to fixing sports events, bribery and the likes, and the money that is placed and received has no betting influence, then this should not be a problem.