Insider found 59 'mirror sites' operated by subsidiaries of Bet365, one of many gambling companies that use the technique.
Though he always used the same online account, the web address he visited would change all the time.He's one of many people in the country who has visited"mirror" websites: identical clones of betting sites that are hosted on obscure web addresses to get around government blocks on the main URLs of gambling companies.
The sites look exactly the same as the main Bet365 site, but have different IP addresses and URLs, and Huang's Bet365 customer account worked on them too, carrying across the money he has put in and won. However, David Lee, a gambling lawyer at Lin & Partners, says the law"doesn't explicitly mention whether the Chinese law enforcement can take actions against gambling operators outside China."
It added that it believes:"Chinese law does not extend to the provision of services into China by offshore gambling operators and service providers."Huang said it was easy to find a link to a new mirror gambling site once an old one has been blocked: his friends sent him the URL. His account and the money in it remained the same when he moved to a new site.