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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
I'm glad Fleshlight is going to look into it, but they've been on torrent sites like empornium.us for as long as I can remember. I'm glad that reporting of these sites is being looked into, but I don't buy that the folks at Fleshlight don't know they are getting a ton of traffic from some of the biggest torrent sites on the web.
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Exactly. Thats why I got a great laugh when Juicy was giving me crap for not posting urls and asking Alex to explain to me the complicated process of how to post a url and Juicy saying how easy it was like I'm a fucking idiot.
I understand that every Sponsor/Rep has to defend their company with the standard "I didn't know but will get it fixed" even if that isn't always true so no problemo.
I didn't initially post the url for four main reasons:
1) All sponsors know where their big affiliates traffic sources are.
2) It doesn't take a net detective to find a sponsor on a torrent site. Anyone could find one in a couple minutes or so. I found it in 30 seconds as it was the first torrent site I tried.
3) Some of the 95% of GFY who are not Webmasters will now have a new place to download stolen content. No biggie I guess as people post torrent sites here every day.
4) Most likely fuck all will be done about it based on previous postings regarding Sponsors supporting illegitimate traffic sources.
Let's see where Fleshlight will fall in the taking action department before you give him too many pats on the back. Nothing against Fleshlight or Juicy, just based on past experience. I hope to be proven wrong in this case.
Usual course of action is generally one of the following:
1) Sponsor does fuck all.
2) Sponsor says they will look into it but does fuck all.
3) Sponsor says they absolutely do not allow it and please report it and they will cancel rogue affiliate but does fuck all.
4) Sponsor says they canceled rogue affiliate but does fuck all.
5) Sponsor cancels one rogue affiliate temporarily but gets him up again with a new ID usually on the same site shortly after.
6) Sponsor permanently cancels affiliates but only those who have complaints and/or don't send much.
7) Sponsor does not allow affiliates to send traffic from Torrent sites and pro actively monitors their large affiliate traffic source instead of waiting for complaints.
Right now I suppose Fleshlight is hovering around number two but hopefully will be at six or seven shortly.
Of course what a sponsor says they will do and what they do can be very different and pretty much impossible to verify except when it's blatantly obvious like the supposedly canceled affiliate url is still valid days, weeks or months later as has happened several times.