The range of lottery and gambling games available to the public never stops diversifying and the industry benefits from the numerous technical innovations in order to reach a forever wider public. Therefore, currently the French national lottery, “Française des jeux”, legally proposes a range of lottery games accessible on the Internet, and the first French group of casinos, the Partouche group is launching a cyber casino website whose lawfulness is disputable and disputed. It is in this context that Senator François Trucy, in a report dedicated to gambling and lottery games in France, at the French Financial Commission of the Senate (“Commission des Finances du Sénat”) pleads in favour of an urgent state intervention with a view to legalising and licensing such games on the Internet subject to a number of necessary precautions. It therefore seems the time has come for reform, but before we consider the social and legal parliamentary debate, it is pertinent to examine the status of the law on this subject in order to appreciate the implications of the reforms which are proving necessary.