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I havent read the whole thread, but here is my answer.
This came up when AaronM discovered dieselcash giving out sets as well as hosted galleries to webmasters that were just straight sets purchased off AaronM's site, reyko, myself and I dont know who else. (issue was fixed extremely quickly by the guys at dieselcash by the way)
That all got resolved, my advice was that my current license didnt prevent a site owner doing hosted galleries, I am now correcting that. I know reyko has as well. Not sure about AaronM.
Whilst technically you can say it is the same domain, it goes against the spirit of the agreement, and the price of the content to be having 1000 affiliates submitting galleries with the same content on your behalf.
On the other hand, you could argue they are just paid submitters, just being paid commission rather than a set fee per gallery or something.
You are not going to get quite the same saturation with a hosted gallery as you will giving the actual sets out as there is less chance of the galleries getting listed, although a lot of TGP owners will use them themselves these days. Its still enough to ruin a set though.
So my license is getting changed and I am sure as hosted galleries become more and more prevelant most other content providers will follow suit.
Essentially if someone does this, it trashes a set. Its amazing how few sales it takes before the pics become quite used.
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