New Jersey has already announced that they are looking into regulating Internet casinos. Nevada and Las Vegas cannot be far behind. New Jersey knows that online casinos will not affect land based casinos in the state. For the simple reason that, if this was true, Las Vegas would have suffered after casino gambling became legal in New Jersey. Las Vegas has continued to prosper and expand.
Internet casinos are just another form of gambling.
Regulating them to provide the same quality of games offered in a land based casino, is the only logical step. The federal government decided a long time ago that gambling was to be legislated at the state level. In other words, they only wanted their taxes and knew full well that they were, and are to this day, incapable of regulating and monitoring casinos. Some states have been regulating casinos for decades. They already have the ability to monitor the operations and the operators.