Originally Posted by AmateurFlix

This could be the start of a very disturbing trend

Price cutting never benefits any industry as a whole unless the prices are so far out of line to begin with that people aren't buying the products. Clearly that is not the case in this industry except for a VERY small percentage of customers.

Had they been negotiating for higher payouts no one would have likely complained.

Discounted prices give them an unfair advantage; the only way to remedey this fairly would be to give all affiliates the option to shortchange themselves like this, and no doubt many shortsighted webmasters would take the opportunity to do so. It might generate a marginal increase in revenue for the short term but in the long run it would fuck every affiliate and sponsor over. Conditioning customers to expecting more value for less money is a losing game for all involved. It is suited to more competitive fields where the products are largely identical than it is to porn where that is not the case.