"What I find amazing is that the casino industry is not fighting this harder."
Are you kidding? It is the casinos who, short-sightedly I'll admit, want this. They think you won't come to the casino if you can play poker at home in your underwear.
There has been no outcry from the actual on-line gamblers, not that I've seen. And hey, I've been one! I'm wondering if this will change now. Of course, I hate calling my reps, since they are all stinking dems. But I must say, it's not the dems driving this legislation, not so far as I am aware.
""Are you kidding? It is the casinos who, short-sightedly I'll admit, want this. They think you won't come to the casino if you can play poker at home in your underwear.""
As a matter of fact thats what I am doing right now lol!
"There has been no outcry from the actual on-line gamblers, not that I've seen"
I'm not in the US, but there was a lobbying group set up called the PPA. I've also seen a lot of encouragement for people to call their Congressmen on poker messageboards that I've seen.
However, people who just like to wile away an hour every so often playing a sociable game of cards with people around the world, may not even be aware that their government has decided to remove that freedom from them in order to, err, increase security at ports.