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There are several different things that all come together to cause these problems. Too much free porn is the first and biggest problem. Piracy is a problem. Reputation is a problem. How many people over the years has this industry screwed with shady cross sales, card banging, dialers, malware and other crap like that? Those people will likely never pay again and they will tell their friends to never pay because they will get fucked over.
Add in that piracy has made being a webmaster a much more global thing. Gone are the days of at least needing to plunk down few hundred dollars to get the software you will use to make sites. Now you can download photoshop, any HTML program like Dreamweaver or anything you want in minutes with no hassle. So more and more people from all over the globe are getting into the business (not to mention how all the mainstream media used to say about porn was how much money people were making) and the market for affiliates has gotten very diluted.
So, to me, there are a lot of reasons affiliates are struggling these days. Laziness is part of it, but the #1, far and away is too much free porn. We bitched for years about giving away too much porn and finally it has arrived and bit us in the ass.
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