The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, engages directly with a long-standing ambiguity in India\u2019s digital gaming ecosystem. Its central move is to shift the legal inquiry away from whether a game is based on skill or chance, and towards whether participation involves money or other stakes in expectation of monetary or other enrichment. In doing so, it establishes a classification framework in which online money games are prohibited, while e-sports and online games are separately recognised as permissible categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, engages directly with a long-standing ambiguity in India\u2019s digital gaming ecosystem. Its central move is to shift the legal inquiry away from whether a game is based on skill or chance, and towards whether participation involves money or other stakes in expectation of monetary or other enrichment. In doing so, it establishes a classification framework in which online money games are prohibited, while e-sports and online games are separately recognised as permissible categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009354,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009353\/revisions\/1009354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}