I’m all for optimism – that’s why I tried to lift the gloominess from people saying the industry was almost dead etc – total nonsense, just the US market.
An affiliate, as well as having increasing difficulty getting paid, could be charged with aiding and abetting under the new law, players likely would be ok if they managed to get around it. Of course not affiliate you know has been arrested – the law doesn’t come into effect for a few months yet.