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Originally Posted by BoyAlley
For the life of me, I can NOT understand the logic of a software development firm trying to be the police of the interweb?
That'd be like Oracle wanting to monitor banks that use their software to make sure the data being entered into it is accurate.
A company can NOT survive being the police of the interweb, because every time they take action, right or not, they're going to get sued.
Personally, I'd be a lot more comfortable about the long-term stability of NATS and MPA3 if they both agreed that they're software firms, and not Interweb Police. 
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They are not being the police of the web, they are being the police of their own software. If you purchase their software and license, you must abide by their terms of service. Not only to protect their software, but the reputation it has in the community.
Would you say that Visa doesn't have a right to police their transactions they process? If a guy chooses to sell weed with his merchant account, should Visa sit back and say "well we can't police the world". Do they not have a right to shut down the account?
NATS thrives on being a trusted software that affiliates know will be fair. It's a huge selling point for affiliate programs and there are a lot of affiliates who will pick programs with NATS because of the reputation. TMM has every right to ensure their reputation isn't hurt by someone shaving with their system. If the other company doesn't like it, they should choose another software to run their aff program on.