The latest computers from some of the biggest manufacturers in the business are now coming online gambling ready. New computers, starting in 2010, will have online casino software already loaded in them.

Now, all a customer will have to do is run the software, open up an account, and start losing money. The reason it is being done is because the manufacturers have inked deals to be affiliates for online casinos.

“It was a way for us to increase our profits by almost double,” said an employee that did not want to be identified because he worked for Dell, “for every player that signs up from the free software, the computer company will receive three percent of the gamblers losses.”

That percentage is low in comparison to what some other affiliates are receiving, but the online casino probably figured, “what the hell, they (computer companies) don’t know what we are really making anyway.” In other words, it is another way for online casinos to rob future affiliates while increasing their own wealth.

The US government has signed off on the deal when they introduced the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act back in 2006. That law pretty much guaranteed that online casinos could operate under any rules that they see fit.

Nobody from the online casino industry could be reached for comment on the computer affiliate story, mainly because all the executives running the online casinos in the US are residing in other countries.