Originally Posted by Johny Traffic

Hits nail on head.

Thats the one thing I find so amusing. The companies actualy running the tubes and fucking over everyone and no one does shit. In fact, they come here with shitty contests and their threads get 100's of bumps and free advertising.

The reason these tube owners will win (not if) and everyone else will lose is because that is their business plan. But no one see's it. They want you out of business. They have the money to do it, the brains to do it. It is just business, not personal and they are better at business than everyone else. They dont want to be gfy buddies and they couldn't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks of them. It is just business.

They win. Everyone else loses. The affiliate model is dying and the guys killing it are cutting the affiliate out of the loop. They have the content, they now have the traffic, they have all the new surfers comming from the search engines, they have the publicity. Now all they need is for everyone else to shut up shop and they are done.