Do you think Brazilians would cooperate with the government? Some may think of VPNs to bypass the government's restrictions, but this might put them into trouble with casinos. I wonder how many of them know this.
It takes a bold step to do this and it looks like some countries are now waking up. Regulation is important in the gambling sector, it's better not to have gambling outlets at all than to have them do as they like without proper accountability and even pocket all the money without giving the government what is due to them. As for the government, the tax due is not justified if not used properly, sensitises/educates the people about gambling and protects the rights of the citizens/residents.
To quote from the article itself:
More than 200 other sites will be allowed to continue to operate after agreeing to the new rules.
So there will still be online sites that are going to be allowed for Brazilians to play and put their bet on. The crackdown is supposedly on those illegal or suspicious sites and not complying to regulations that will take effect on January next year. So it's either this sites have to fully cooperate by that time otherwise they are going to be restricted by the Brazilians telecommunications and can't be accessed no more. Nevertheless, there could be gamblers who are going to used VPN here to circumvent things if they wanted to go to a sites that is being banned by their government. It might be a big risk on their part though, but gambling itself is a risk so for sure Brazilian gamblers are willing to go to that lengths in my opinion. So it's going to be a long battle from the government and hopefully they will have the full resource to implement the law. And it just shows the war of governments now whether it's legal or illegal gambling as many are really falling for the addiction.