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There is a big difference in online gambling and online porn.
Account gaming is illegal in the US. Account gaming means any sort of setup where there is "money" on deposit -- either real or extended credit -- that is available for gambling. The Wire Act of 1961 makes sports betting illegal on top of the account gaming prohibitions.
The only legal betting online is on horseracing and dogracing. The IHA established the legality of it, but there is still the account gaming situation, and the entire matter is up in the air right now due to the Antigua vs. United States WTO decision last year.
Until porn becomes illegal -- which is certainly possible if you think of the angles they could use to make it so -- there is not a direct correlation between gambling and porn.
However, the card associations, various banks, gateways, etc, could decide, for whatever reasons, that they don't want to allow 5967 transactions, and could decide to reject them all.
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