|
No side taken here...
BUT!
I have to agree with EroticSexxx...this is gonna open a can of worms that NONE of us affiliates need in this industry...especially with paysite owners looking for more and more ways to cut us out.
The gov'ment doesn't have to step in and police our shit...if they leave us alone long enough we'll kill each other...the same thinking the KKK (and undercover racist sympathizers) survives on.
If paysites "kill" the affiliates they'll be hurting themselves more than they think...the proof can be shown if WE webmasters rise up as a single force and pull links (only prob is those affiliates that are converting like mad with the bad guys, they figure more of a conversion for them, fuck that other muthafucka, i'm gettin' paid!)...they're not going to lighten their wallets for the greater good). Even though they're commiting affiliate suicide.
This thread is just ANOTHER reason for affiliates to band together.
With sponsors fucking us on xsells, we have sponsor-owned tube ads to contend with.
Then full movie, sponsor content uploads from those pesky "rouge affiliates" was (and apparently still is) the excuse for fucking us over...
Now (thanks to Twisty's/Shap's "lawyers") it's reverse domain hijacking using the excuse of protecting their trademark...it won't end until us affiliates are irrelevant to paysite sponsors.
Little by little they're cutting into us, figuring out new ways to take our money.
We REALLY need to band together and start pulling links/traffic from these sponsors, they say (not to us affiliates directly of course) it won't matter but NUMBERS don't lie when they notice traffic dropping off...
__________________
New niche? 
|