If you own a small forum and your not able to move you hosting to a offshore server and you are totally dependent on affiliate money then your screwed. I know at The Offshore Edge that we'll be moving all of our business entities offshore. Posting from the US is not a crime and we'll continue to move forward. I did notice that The Online Wire moved all facilities, including the owner to the UK.
If this legislation does indeed have teeth and becomes a reality, it will hurt all forum that don't invest their own funds into business, unless they change the 'focus" of their business towards being a more-mainstream sports forum
Many of the smaller places, like WhaleWager, support themselves and don't run solely on revenue from gambling portals. Whale has other ventures that generate much more revenue
The bigger places with better traffic and more posters will survive, but may have to cut costs and persue advertising from other sources.
But enough with the what if's, nothing is set in stone yet and we really don't know if this bill will do much what we fear it "could" do, end Offshore Gambling.
From what I've read, this bill that was just passed has some bark to it, but not a whole lot of bite.
Guess we'll find out in the next 9 months and that may or may not affect our plans for next football season
Many of the smaller places, like WhaleWager, support themselves and don't run solely on revenue from gambling portals. Whale has other ventures that generate much more revenue
The bigger places with better traffic and more posters will survive, but may have to cut costs and persue advertising from other sources.
But enough with the what if's, nothing is set in stone yet and we really don't know if this bill will do much what we fear it "could" do, end Offshore Gambling.
From what I've read, this bill that was just passed has some bark to it, but not a whole lot of bite.
Guess we'll find out in the next 9 months and that may or may not affect our plans for next football season
My guess is that some of the major forums will fall. Even some of the posters in here will get into trouble. It should not be a big deal to hack sites such as the rx. With the database you get the ip adr of every single poster. All they have to do then is check the ip with your isp and then they have your name and adr. After that all they have to do is checking your internet traffic and you are caught? Impossible scenario? Not in the USA !!!
