Paul, everybody is an affiliate of something incl most of the biggest pay ops. I agree on some of your points except the whole anti affil thing.
Surely you are an affil of something. Affiliate marketing is like social networking. We damn near all are affilliates and some also wear many other hats.
Most affils follow the terms of the prog so the affil does nothing but good for the payop.
Yes if there were no affils there would be waaay less content given free. Woulda-coulda-shoulda.. affils are here so your arguments are all hypothetical.
