I don’t think you get it.
“YOU” or “I” may go to extreams to get our money in a poker site, but for the majority of the FISH, they won’t…
I’ve seen several comments when playing low limit ring games on PokerStars saying that as soon as their account is depleated, then they are done.
I also know several guys that normally play in the ‘pub poker’ leagues that have stopped playing online.

And as the games get harder, more and more players will leave.
It’s a cascading effect.

And this isn’t really a battle/war.
It’s a slow decline (or starving death) as we sit back and do nothing.
It’s much more like a siege.
A battle (or war) would imply that we are fighting back.
I don’t see any of that.

But the temperature of the water will go back down on its own too. This is a battle of the global free market vs. the US DOJ, and I don’t think the war has been decided yet.

There’s just too much money on the table for anyone who can go into business serving US customers. Period. Someone sets up a Eurocard shell company in Venezuela, and US customer will go there in droves. Maybe they get shut down, maybe not. Maybe Stars stops doing business with them eventually, maybe not.

But then a VISA shell company opens up in Tunisia. The customers move there. Repeat, ad nauseum. Yes, it’s a pain in the ass, and it sucks. But the bottom line is that moving cash electronically is both very easy and very profitable. It’s going to be harder to shut down than illegal meds through the US mail, and perhaps even harder than shutting down file trading on Usenet.

This is just one battle. It’s hardly the war. (Yet.)