Two months after the United States passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and six months before it is to take effect and interrupt gambling activities for tens of millions of Americans, recent reports and publications have come out with som
Their focus is on the ways online gambling will still be possible. Reports also show encouraging trends in the industry in the time period that has passed since the legislation.
One US publication reports that American gamblers have figured out legal ways to work around the UIGEA restrictions. Unlike state laws, which might be more specific and ban all aspects of the industry in this or that state, the federal law does not ban online gambling. Instead it lays restrictions on financial institutions in accepting credit card payments to or from the sites. Gambling itself can still be legal.
Accordingly, experts and regulators are quoted as saying that gambling will still be possible, and that payments should be carried out by means of personal checks. They are both more difficult to review and when in mass amounts practically impossible to track. Payments then may still be possible.
Perhaps these encouraging possibilities are behind the traffic increases that the industry has experienced over the past three months. Many sites appear on Internet traffic meters with such positive data. While some providers have ceased serving American gamblers since the law was passed, others are collecting the business all of a sudden available. Sites have advanced thousands of spots on the meters.
The operators that have left the US market have experienced a slowdown in traffic. With the encouraging projections for their future in the US , hopes for the American market to go in the direction of regulation, not an all-out ban, and a current rise in business and traffic, it seems that the American market is still a good bet as far as gambling goes.
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