To Skim or Not to Skim

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Originally Posted by gonzo

Heres an interesting biz question.

Say your a program owner and you have an affilaite thats using your galleries,text ads etc as part of a outbound skim to build up traffic to your site.

Do you continue to take the traffic and sales or tell the affiliate that you dont want your program promoted like that?

Pros? Cons? Thoughts?

I think that it's none of their business how a webmaster generates traffic as long as it's legal. Any program that doesn't want an affiliate to skim traffic on their content shouldn't have an affiliate program, period... just my 2 cents.

That said... I don't think programs should accept any affiliates from countries where their processor can't accept payments.