KK
well said in every post!
>>>There are much easier ways to deter this type of thing such as a global database amongst paysite programs.
LOL
why would a company who has spent a fortune on fraud control want to use those assets to help their competition save money?
Ryan - your points are all valid - but you are assuming that an affiliate program needs your traffic. There are so many affiliates with so much traffic these days, very few programs care about the masses ... and why would they?
Affiliates are leeches generally, and no matter how tenderly you wipe their ass there will always be someone who shits on your hand.
It was only a matter of time. There are NO other business models, apart from MLM, which allow the number of affiliates to represent a product as adult does. Try getting permission to stock Toshiba in your computer store and see if you can do it with a 15 field form and a T&C tick box.
There's only 1 way in life to avoid being disappointed .... don't expect so much.