Originally Posted by will76

EXACTLY.... AFF will never lose from these type of sites, but they can put a hurting on their competition and take out a lot of affiliates of other companies in the process.

Think about it from their perspective. They basically fund all of these sites by paying them for traffic. These sites give away stolen content for free from tons of pay sites many of us are affiliates of. Since people are getting access to all these pay sites for free, the advertising we buy will be less and less profit. Less and less people will signup to the program we are pushing because they either have seen it already for free or know where to go find it for free. So affiliates will then stop promoting these companies and possibly go to companies like AFF because they are not suffering from this and can pay more then the companies they are basically forcing out of business. Between doing this and then zango'ing other competitors urls they are effectivly waging war on all other programs, in the most unethical (illegal IMO) ways possible.

but not one wants to stop using them because they might lose a few bucks

In the end the webcam, dating, and sex toys sites will be the only ones that can survive unless something changes. If you don't offer something live, or something "real" (like dating) or something physical like toys, then you are going to be in trouble.