Is skimming using hosted galleries thumbs legal?

Chop Smith · 2004-08-14, 11:08 AM

I think this is determined by the contract between the sponsor and the affiliate - the TOS. Mine says nothing about using my promotional material to skim, but it does state that my promotional material can not be used with Any program, file, data stream, or other material which contains viruses, worms, "Trojan Horses," or any other destructive feature, regardless of whether or not damage is intended, which may cause damage to any computer equipment, loss or corruption of data or programs, or inconvenience to any person. So if you use my content to link to something that 'sets Norton off', then your are in violation of my TOS.

About skimming - it is a fact in TGPing. Who am I to tell these guys how to run their show? The fact is that I want their traffic, I need their traffic and if they allow xx% of the hits thru to my hosted galleries and make me some sales then I am going to keep smiling.

So if a surfer clicks on a link to my hosted gallery at Dr B's and instead is sent to Tommy's, let's hope that Tommy has a link to some of my stuff and that it is not my turn to be traded off. It is a numbers game, but isn't all traffic?

2004-08-14, 11:08 AM	#8
Chop Smith Eighteen 'til I Die Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Mississippi Posts: 2,168	I think this is determined by the contract between the sponsor and the affiliate - the TOS. Mine says nothing about using my promotional material to skim, but it does state that my promotional material can not be used with Any program, file, data stream, or other material which contains viruses, worms, "Trojan Horses," or any other destructive feature, regardless of whether or not damage is intended, which may cause damage to any computer equipment, loss or corruption of data or programs, or inconvenience to any person. So if you use my content to link to something that 'sets Norton off', then your are in violation of my TOS. About skimming - it is a fact in TGPing. Who am I to tell these guys how to run their show? The fact is that I want their traffic, I need their traffic and if they allow xx% of the hits thru to my hosted galleries and make me some sales then I am going to keep smiling. So if a surfer clicks on a link to my hosted gallery at Dr B's and instead is sent to Tommy's, let's hope that Tommy has a link to some of my stuff and that it is not my turn to be traded off. It is a numbers game, but isn't all traffic? __________________