Playing Devil’s Advocate, I see this cut-down legislation has a good side actually.
1. It stops well short of making online gambling illegal. 2. It will probably also annoy banks and the suchlike which again isn’t a bad thing for us. 3. Moreover, with so many offshore Prepaid options springing up, it means that a) Americans can continue to have a choice and b) it should help to stop too many people falling into debt over gambling.
Clearly the whole bill was political posturing ahead of elections, but the bit that’s passed is not that bad, maybe even good IMO.
The whole irony for the politicians and American coffers of course is that not only will they continue to see US money go to offshore gambling companies (which lets face it, is what the whole HR-4411 thing is about anyway), but now they will see money going to offshore prepaid card service providers too.