With the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), in brief, it is illegal for Americans to participate in gambling at online casinos. However, this legal wall has not stopped Americans from betting with their wallets. The number of U.S. citizen participants in online casinos was up in July, higher from the previous month, as reported by Score.com Media Matrix. This news demonstrates that the UIGEA legal wall that was erected is easily scaled or detoured. Once again it is affirmed that traditional laws can not be applied to the internet.

The traffic numbers in July were recorded to be a 5% gain from the quantity in June. Numerically this does not seem such a substantial gain. However, because of these numbers posted in July, online casinos have now reached one of the top 10 fastest growing internet categories. The traveling sector, consumer goods, mall retail and movie related traffic are all listed ahead of online gambling. The fact that the online casinos are in the race shows the magnitude of their popularity.

To put the issue into perspective, this means that 12,648,000 US citizens played at an online casino in the past month. Although most of the sites that were visited were not US based, this still shows American internet users will to partake in online gambling. The data represents the true heart of the American spirit, or at least the internet generations, ‘If it’s on the internet, against the law or not, why not do it? It isn’t hurting anyone’.