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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST
Tony, AFF has TENS OF THOUSANDS of affiliates do you think they can police every single one of them? Lars has no control if someone signs up for an AFF account grabs a few geo-targeted banners and then places them on his password trading site. The only way AFF finds out is because someone on AFF posts a big thread condemning them for receiving traffic from the password trader.
DH
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Don't be so naive, DH. You're smarter than that.
These thieves are some of AFFs biggest affiliates. With the money AFF makes, I'm sure their tracking scripts allow them to see the referring URLs sending them traffic. It's not rocket science to look at the referring URLs of your largest affiliates and see where the traffic is coming from. AFF has over 300 employees. If they cared, they could hire one more to do this full time. Hell, I'm a one girl operation making a tiny fraction of what AFF makes and I check out anyone I trade with who sends me an abnormal amount of traffic.
Thieves are constantly brought to AFF's attention. Shooshtime has been mentioned a dozen times in AFF threads. In one thread, shortly after Lars said he'd shut down any affiliate caught stealing content if the license holder filed a valid complaint, DukeSkywalker found stolen content (with watermarks removed, nonetheless) on Shooshtime and filed a valid complaint. Rather than can the account, Lars asked him to remove the video. Months later, Shooshtime is still full of AFF ads and stolen videos (including more of Duke's videos).