i don't think the government is terribly inclined to let us back into the golden days since while they can still maintain some control over casinos within US territory, online sites with servers in a different control are beyond their access unless they can give the hosting country a pretty damn good reason for the US intervention. Easiest way is just to handicap online poker through lawmaking. The poker community may not be large enough to make enough of a dent in the lawmaking body and theres enough of a stigma on gambling/poker so that gathering the favor of the general populace is more difficult.

Would be nice to get PS or FTP, progress is slow if itll ever come to that though.