PCs used for gambling need permit

Sometimes the laws and regulations in Sweden make me wonder, especially the laws regarding gambling. Having worked more than six years for the second largest lottery in Sweden I have seen my share of bureaucratic and more or less idiotic rules.

Once again the zealous National Gaming Board strikes again:

An Internet café in Örebro in Sweden has been closed after the local council argued that its twelve PCs were occasionally used for gambling and it therefore needed a gaming permit.

When protesting didn't help and both the country administrative board and the administrative court ruled in favor of the cafe, the case was taken to the administrative court of appeal in Jönköping, which yesterday ruled that a PC - even in an internet café - automatically becomes a gaming machine if someone plays games with a financial stake on it.

Don’t they have anything else to do then going after Internet cafés? What happens if I gamble on my PC at home? Will the Nation Gaming Board come after me as well or do I just need to get a gaming permit?