Originally Posted by PromoterX

Normally i'm not one to bump an old thread, but got a notice from an old website I don't own or run anymore and he's still at it - 6 months later. Looking at the affiliate signup page - it now says hes not taking any more affiliates.

Looks like the business model for his company was...

1. Sign up affiliates and get the content out there.
2. Learn how webmasters were driving traffic and then copy them one by one.
3. Make similar galleries and content and submit it to all the same sites.
4. Stop taking new webmaster signups once the galleries are indexed/deindexed by SEs and driving their own traffic.
5. DMCA all webmaster/affiliates links that drive traffic and get them removed from SEs.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=825945 - March 2nd, 2013.

Pathetic.