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Originally Posted by celandina
Here is my affiliate story ( this also answers the other questions) :
The guy signs up, the admin lady approves him, next my other person who is chasing pirates submits a list for approval of DMCA notices. I note a familiar link and guess what ? This affiliate has a blog/tube linked to a bunch of file sharing sites with my whole library stolen and linked to these sites. Then he has the audacity to demand his 2K payment. He gets paid twice one time from me and many times over by the file shares.I found another 3 similar offenders.
Then, I look at about another 20 or so of so called affiliates. Only 3 were legit content owners, the rest were just tube/blog schmucks, and even if they did NOT have my library ripped off they ALL had other pirated content . We have killed them all.
Now, I am NOT saying that all are bad actors BUT many are.
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You have some bad affiliates so you condemn the entire affiliate system?
The affiliate system is (usually) sponsors, who own content, having people send them traffic in return for a split of the sales of some sort.
That sysem works in that sponsors get traffic and exposure that they would not normally get.
That there are some bad actors out there should not condemn an entire system.
I have been doing marketing as an affiliate for close to 20 years. I have never misused sponsor provided content.
I have never sent a single click to a file locker.
I am extremely careful in how I promote a sponsor, making sure to follow any and all rules that they put out there no matter how ridiculous I think some of them are (think Apple Twins there).
I have a significant investment in purchased and legally licensed content that I use for galleries and site design and try my hardest not to violate any license terms from the content creators.
I truly believe, based on both conversations and observation that most affiliate marketers are more like me than like the ones that you describe.
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