It's amazing how little people think this could effect them. This could shake up the industry totally.
What Perfact 10 are saying is if you profit from stolen goods you are liable. Well actually thats what the law says.
So think about it, every sponsor who allows a webmaster to steal content to promote them. Every TGP site that has a page of stolen content on it, all could be facing being taken to court and sued.
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The credit card companies say requiring them to enforce the property rights of a third party is unheard of and would have ramifications for all service providers.
"It's an attempt to enforce copyright and trademark liability far beyond any published case ever," said Mark Jansen, a partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew who is representing Visa.
"If the court were to impose liability in that context and make companies subject to contributory liability on the basis of aiding and abetting infringement, that would extend across commerce," he added. "It would convert financial institutions into judges, juries and policemen."
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What no one is saying is that it's not allowed under the law, they are just saying it has not been done before. Well maybe that's no defense in law.
It would be the kiss of death for webmasters and affiliate programs, what restrictions Visa decide to implement on us can only be imagined.
But here the comments are all about Perfect 10 not have a good affiliate program. Wake up and smell the coffee kids, the guy is making enough money to afford to sue Visa. Seems he's doing all right without lots of webmasters.