Well almost everyone. If you don't use or own affiliate programs and don't care about the business you chose to be in you're exempt from this rant. ;)
First of all, the CAN-SPAM act makes it illegal for any company to accept traffic from spam. What's even worse is the language it uses is to the effect of if the sponsor knew or SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the affiliate was spamming. Who is going to define "should" in this situation? Do you really want your sponsors potentially targetted by the government simply because an affiliate spammed their product or service?
While some of you are twisting in your seats ready to post a message saying how you don't want to use a sponsor who allows spam anyway and they deserve trouble you are missing the point. If an affiliate spams and they don't catch it the government may step in and arrest the program owners and possibly all involved. Do you really want to see program owners defending whether they "should" have known an affiliate was spamming?
It's common knowledge that the government likes to go after adult sites with every possible angle they can in case the sites content isn't found obscene by a jury. I doubt any of us really want to see Asshahahahaha running around with this extra angle to attack adult companies with.
Also, if any program owners are arrested for some rogue affiliate sending spam consider what other program owners may decide to do then. It's very possible some companies would pull the plug on their affiliates and promote their own sites. Nobody wants the risk of somebody not following the rules and landing them both in jail.
And aside from the obvious reasons anybody concerned with the health of this business should be against this bill there is still the fact that this bill will pretty much make spamming LEGAL. As long as a spammer follows the guidelines of the bill they are free to spam. Not to mention it will supercede any state laws that may be tougher on spammers. I'm sure there are a few people that would weigh the penalties involved with this bill against the money they could be making by spamming and decide the reward is worth the risk.
Meanwhile, everyone that is so happy to see this bill go through will still be getting spammed from people that a) don't care or b) live outside of the U.S. Let's hope no innocent businesses have this bill used against them but it is damn sure possible.
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First of all, the CAN-SPAM act makes it illegal for any company to accept traffic from spam. What's even worse is the language it uses is to the effect of if the sponsor knew or SHOULD HAVE KNOWN the affiliate was spamming. Who is going to define "should" in this situation? Do you really want your sponsors potentially targetted by the government simply because an affiliate spammed their product or service?
While some of you are twisting in your seats ready to post a message saying how you don't want to use a sponsor who allows spam anyway and they deserve trouble you are missing the point. If an affiliate spams and they don't catch it the government may step in and arrest the program owners and possibly all involved. Do you really want to see program owners defending whether they "should" have known an affiliate was spamming?
It's common knowledge that the government likes to go after adult sites with every possible angle they can in case the sites content isn't found obscene by a jury. I doubt any of us really want to see Asshahahahaha running around with this extra angle to attack adult companies with.
Also, if any program owners are arrested for some rogue affiliate sending spam consider what other program owners may decide to do then. It's very possible some companies would pull the plug on their affiliates and promote their own sites. Nobody wants the risk of somebody not following the rules and landing them both in jail.
And aside from the obvious reasons anybody concerned with the health of this business should be against this bill there is still the fact that this bill will pretty much make spamming LEGAL. As long as a spammer follows the guidelines of the bill they are free to spam. Not to mention it will supercede any state laws that may be tougher on spammers. I'm sure there are a few people that would weigh the penalties involved with this bill against the money they could be making by spamming and decide the reward is worth the risk.
Meanwhile, everyone that is so happy to see this bill go through will still be getting spammed from people that a) don't care or b) live outside of the U.S. Let's hope no innocent businesses have this bill used against them but it is damn sure possible.
<a href="http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmt9/canspam_comply.htm">More Info</a>
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