Anyone that wants DFS to go away is almost certainly going to wind up disappointed. Unlike sports gambling, all of the major sports leagues have bought in and decided that this is going to be a major portion of their revenue. DraftKings and FanDuel, in conjunction with the NFL et al will use lobbyists to help draft legislation that makes everything appear kosher while blocking future competition. There is simply too much money to be made, and donated to reelection campaigns and PACs, for DFS to be legislated out of existence.
Exploit loopholes and break rules until you're big enough to block others from following in your footsteps. That seems to be how true Internet empires are built. It worked for Facebook, whose massive growth was fueled by deals with large email providers that gave their spammy friend invites a 100% inbox rate. It's not hard to get a billion users when the average new user is (in many cases unknowingly) spamming 500 or more people with an email invite to the site.
I read about this in The Facebook Effect, a book by David Kirkpatrick. You can actually read the passage here [1] (beginning at the bottom paragraph of page 241). Basically, Hotmail was blocking friend invites from Facebook altogether on some days, and on those days growth would drop by 70%. So, they cut a deal with Microsoft to unblock them. It stands to reason that they did this with at least some other providers as well, although at the time Hotmail was by far the most important roadblock that they successfully removed.
Exploit loopholes and break rules until you're big enough to block others from following in your footsteps. That seems to be how true Internet empires are built. It worked for Facebook, whose massive growth was fueled by deals with large email providers that gave their spammy friend invites a 100% inbox rate. It's not hard to get a billion users when the average new user is (in many cases unknowingly) spamming 500 or more people with an email invite to the site.