Longer term, that’s what I would like to do – keep the sites up and only refer to non US accepting sites. Problem is, probably one of my favorite poker affiliate programs is still going to accept US players (for now) and I really wish these programs could come up with a way to ‘steal’ my US players so I am not legally liable. I probably still wouldn’t take the chance though that the goofs in the government agencies here would see it that way. They would probably say, well the site accepts US players and you have a link…
If the bill gets signed quickly, as in tomorrow, I will probably pull all of the affiliate links until it gets sorted out who is accepting US and not. Too much up in the air right now. A site could even say we are no longer accepting US and some technical glitch allows some to slip through. Try explaining that to law enforcement.
To each his own, but I’m not comfortable playing around with offshore options.
In the meantime, while trying to squeak out what I can of the non US market, I am going to go into a bunch of different bland niche markets – cookies or something, that doesn’t attract the heated attention of the scammers in this world/political or not. Really had it up to here with all of them. I just want to be able to pay the bills until the people that run this country get their ducks in a row and are primed to benefit from this profitable business. They might even let some of us make a little too again.