Originally Posted by Robbie

Except affiliates require tools, affiliates get rebills even when they no longer have traffic, affiliates require support. In other words it costs money to run an affiliate program. And if any business has a part of it that is no longer profitable...they close it down.

A lot of programs can make more money these days buying spots on the handful of sites that DO still have traffic and stop losing money paying out affiliates.

Piracy has fucked the affiliate model in almost every way. First it took all of our traffic to a handful of big tubesites. And then it took away the need for people to pay for porn thus killing the few sales we might have been able to send with our reduced traffic.

In my humble opinion...when the govts. get together and do something about this stealing because of mainstream business complaining, then porn will be accidentally saved too and the affiliate model can work once again.