a affiliate who uses my content for evil

[CraK]

Originally posted by Greenguy
I never said he was promoting another program, I said he was promoting another SITE (even if I did have a few typo's in there - LOL)

Webmaster programs put out free content so that you can use it to promote their site - there is no other use for it - if you use it for something else, you run the risk of having shit like this happen to you.

I don't care if it was being used for a traffic trade, a circle jerk, a blind link or to promote the sale of socket sets on the fucking Sears Craftsman website!

kloot did not have permission to use the content the way he did & his host did the right thing when the pulled the plug after finding out from Torn just what was going on.

I am truly amazed at the number of people that think it is ok to steal content, as long as it's for a "traffic trade"

Okay, let's say it's illegal to do that and kloot was wrong and now the plug was pulled on him by his host.. but it would be a damn shame for Torn to not put something like that on his FAQs page that says that their program can only be used on non-skimming tgps and mgps..

now it's upto him to decide if he wants to take the hit and have about 200 of his affiliates drop him in a second.. because i know i would since there are 5000 other sponsors who actually wont give me shit about this and i wont have to worry at night that my site might be shut down because of some sponsor..

You can't really blame kloot for his actions because he presumed that it was okay to use Torn's content on a skimming tgp because other 5000 quality sponsors dont give him shit about it and get his sites shut down

If anything, i would blame Torn for not having something like that in his FAQs page..

And for you to say that the host did the right thing by pulling the plug on him after they saw that he was SKIMMING.. there are 50 million other decent sized tgps that do this.. so they should all be shut down?

Look at how it's gonna hurt so many sponsors.. and look at how it's gonna hurt so many hosts..

no skimming means no more huge traffic.. that means no more 100s of signups for the sponsors daily.. that means hosts will not burn much bw which will not fill their pockets..