Yes, Professor, I agree, but I’m not an attorney either. To me, on the surface, it doesn’t seem plausible that the government would look the other way if we put a disclaimer on our sites stating that only non-US players need apply.
Corfman has always been an aggressive rebel, and you can bet, that he will fight this to the end. I also saw an interesting note on GPWA from him that stated as long as the affiliate links were in a wrapper (say, javascript) that were physically hosted on an overseas server, then we would be OK, even if the rest of your site is hosted on US territory.
Again, I will disable my affiliate links after the bill becomes law, but keep my site up and running. Then, I’ll wait and see. One never knows, miracles do happen.
And on a positive note, at least you weren’t charges $ 8,500 for that attorney to give you his dire opinion….