Ok, I was reading all your posts guys, I’m scared for my future, but I want to share with you the experience that we had in Italy from the beginning of this year.
Our government was banning the online gambling from the other jurisdiction on february (basically all the online gambling websites). To do that phisically they was obscuring something like 1200 gambling websites (a few % of the total sites), mostly from online casinos, a few from affiliates. The day after this fact all the biggest gambling companies that had italian players, italian versions of the websites and affiliates that was promoting casinos for Italy, was just changing their urls by a redirect code that was pointing on new domains, and this just because all of those companies are completely legal on their jurisdictions, they don’t have problems with local laws. The conversion rate of italian players didn’t change at all (maybe a little in the first days when it wasn’t all done with the new settings). From that moment promoting online gambling from Italy was illegal and is still illegal now, but nothing changed, even if you consider that italian law aren’t “light” when they want you to respect them.
The poin is only one…Internet! How do you suppose to stop the peoples that want to navigate on the web? How do you suppose to track the peoples that work from a country (yeah, you may ask from the isp all the uploading sessions, for what? I’m using a proxy baby and even I’m working for India…so? What do you suppose would happen? You will find a way to do that safetly like I did, changes are normal!). Well, the result is that in Italy nothing was changed but the law, that from january of the next year will make all legal also for external operators, for that reason I just want to suggest to remain calm, and if you feel like me that this is not fair (they do that only because they don’t get money from this), just don’t stop to make your job, take some precautions, hide your identity, as Morgan just says: “Their are a million ways round this situation” I’m not living in the USA, but I know that the way to make new laws is not so different, and if this one will not work as they want, they will change it, because the reason is the same for every governement: THEY DON’T GET A CENT FROM YOUR MONEY!