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Originally Posted by baddog
Are you suggesting that every affiliate program should be actively monitoring every website
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The concept of due diligence is nothing new and as someone has pointed out, it has already been applied to this industry. It is not a requirement to provide infallible precautions against predictable/known abuses, just a recognition that if you are going to profit from a relationship, you have to take reasonable measures to ensure that third-parties with whom you are involved operate legitimately.
It isn't anyone here you have to convince anyway, but come on, we know that far from attempting to stop abuses which range from scumware, through content theft to misuse of keywords, many sponsors turn a completely blind eye to anything which makes them a buck. You wouldn't even have to search many pages of the average message board to find examples.
Adult webmasters may be used to accepting all that crap, but should it really come as a surprise that the real world is going to bite someone in the ass from time to time?