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There is just no way around the easy and factual statement that the US Federal government’s actions to stop online casino gambling transactions between US players and offshore sites has been incredibly ineffective. The UIGEA is a highly flawed piece of legislation that has muddied the laws in the US and only served to confuse the US banking system, politicians, and even US facing internet gaming sites. The UIGEA draws a huge, think line the sand that makes it easy for gambling groups to stay confused. Because of unclear language in the UIGEA online casinos are definitely outlawed but the internet poker industry claims legitimacy. And though it all, no matter which sites the US government has deemed legal or illegal, US gamblers are easily accessing all of these sites.

The main thrust of enforcement of the UIGEA has not yet passed into law, but the US Department of Justice has taken a broader look at the law and really began to investigate and prosecute the payment processing companies that are facilitating the payment process between the US gamblers and the offshore online casinos. The internet gambling sites themselves are not, technically, illegal in the market, but rather the money transactions that take place as deposits and withdrawals are what put the coffin in the nail.

Through all of these legalities though, and the hurdles of legislation that the US government has put in place, the online casinos are still finding fairly easy avenues of processing to use in the US market. The current restrictions against internet gambling are simply too broad and the internet as a medium is too invasive for the US government to fully control without compromising US citizens rights against censorship.