Editing Internet café (section)

==Legal issues==
[[Image:Firenze-Internet-cafe-0836.jpg|thumb|right|200px|A notice about anti-terrorism related ID requirements on the door of an Italian Internet café. (Florence, May 2006)]]

In 2003 the [[EasyInternetcafé]] chain was found liable for copyright infringement occurring when customers used its [[optical disc authoring|CD-burning]] service to burn illegally downloaded music to their own CDs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/01/28/easyinternetcafe_loses_cd_burning_court/|title=EasyInternetcafe loses CD burning court battle|date=28 Jan 2003|access-date=2015-09-05|author=Tim Richardson|website=[[The Register]]}}</ref>

In 2005 Italy began requiring entities such as Internet cafés to collect photocopies of the passports of Internet, phone, or fax-using customers as a result of anti-terrorism legislation passed in July of that year.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Want to check your e-mail in Italy? Bring your passport.|author=Sofia Celeste|journal=Christian Science Monitor|date=October 4, 2005|access-date=2015-09-05|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1004/p07s01-woeu.html}}</ref>

By 2010, a variation of the Internet café known as a "[[sweepstakes parlor]]" had become widespread in certain regions of the United States. These facilities offered entries in a contest to customers who purchase Internet usage. Sweepstakes parlors faced scrutiny by local governments, who argued that sweepstakes parlors are a form of illegal gambling. A large number of these locations faced raids by officials, while a number of states enacted laws to ban them.<ref name=wsj1>{{cite news|last=Eder|first=Steve|title=Gambling Raids Hit Cafes|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443713704577601951019591954|access-date=10 January 2013|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=August 22, 2012}}</ref><ref name=casinonxtdr>{{cite journal|last=Gillette|first=Felix|title=The Casino Next Door|journal=Bloomberg Businessweek|date=April 21, 2011|url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_18/b4226076180073.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424141758/http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_18/b4226076180073.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 24, 2011|access-date=10 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=NYTimes_cafesthrive>{{cite news|last=Saulny|first=Susan|title='Sweepstakes' Cafes Thrive, Despite Police Misgivings|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/us/07gambling.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0|access-date=10 January 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 6, 2010}}</ref>

There are European countries where the total number of publicly accessible terminals is also decreasing. An example of such a country is [[Germany]]. The cause of this development is a combination of complicated regulation, relatively high Internet penetration rates, the widespread use of notebooks, tablets, and smartphones and the relatively high number of [[hotspot (Wi-Fi)|wireless internet hotspots]]. Many pubs, bars and cafés in Germany offer wireless Internet, but no terminals since the Internet café regulations do not apply if no terminal is offered. Additionally, the use of Internet cafés for multiplayer gaming is very difficult in Germany since the Internet café regulations and a second type of regulations which was originally established for video arcade centres applies to this kind of Internet cafés. It is, for example, forbidden for people under the age of 18 to enter such an Internet café, although particularly people under 18 are an important group of customers for this type of Internet café.