[RawAlex]

My feeling on this one is that there is a significant amount of old links out there to these programs, and with some talented traffic management, they can likely squeeze free money out by doing exit trades and other with sites they own, making money out of nothing.

They also appear to move non-NATS sites onto NATS, and I am confident that somewhere along the line, older non-performing hosted galleries and others end up in the waste bin. I am sure that if they cannot find the full records for content, they pull the content, the gallery, and such. I am also sure that while it isn't intentional, some galleries will go 404 or old linking systems get killed off over time, creating a certain amount of free 404 style traffic from outdated links.

At the end of the day, I think that Dee and they guys are buying traffic, not programs, looking more for what is on the backside of the deal and less about what is in front. Just picking up the exit traffic off these sites and such is a good business move, particularly if some of the rumored buyout prices are true. It's a very smart move from people who have spotted an opportunity and are looking to exploit it to the max.