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Very good points Kevin.
My only addition/correction would be that this is a change in terms that wasn't discussed. Like a baseball player makes a deal one day, then the team decides a month later to make a major change to his contract without talking with him first. He is "free to play somewhere else if he wants"....
When I agree to promote a program, many times I put in a lot of hours of work. When things like this happen, I can't just easily 'promote someone else' when I don't like something. It's a change to our business relationship that wasn't discussed, planned for, and is completely one sided.
No affiliate is here claiming it's bad to brand your content, or that we don't like your watermarks, or that you shouldn't protect your business.
However clearly it's a big step to change what site is branded (and marketed!) through the watermark.
It's basically saying you'll do what the hell you want with affiliate traffic.
Is that a good precedent in program/affiliate relationships going forward?
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