Online Casinos Don’t Give Up

On September 30th of last year, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) as part of the Safe Ports Bill, which made online gambling illegal. Two weeks later, President Bush signed it into law, and the online gambling industry lost 60% of its business.

There were those that saw it coming, and had pulled out of the US market already, then there were those that had not yet launched, so they were able to launch in another country instead. However, many of them were located within US borders and they lose a lot of money – not to mention the ones that got arrested.

Companies started pulling out of the US at record speeds, and those that stayed are considered illegal by US Justice Department rules. Those that have decided to stay say that their revenue has actually increased in the US as all of those opportunities for people to gamble have drastically reduced, leaving very few to pick up what the others have dropped.

Their incomes continue to increase as time goes on and people in the US realize that there are options to continue gambling. They say that as long as people want to gamble they are going to let them. They are not alone, as there are many other companies still looking to join the industry, saying that they are going to continue to play in a market that obviously wants them.

Many think that it is just a matter of time before they make online gambling legal again in the US. They say that the moral majority will leave office when Bush does, and they are counting on a Democrat who will give the majority of people what they want, instead of a small subsection of the population.




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