Interesting Sponsor change - no skimming

[Linkster]

Well - its kinda unusual situation because in reality it is their right to say that if you are going to use their thumbs on your tgp - the link on that thumb should go to their program or a site advertising their program - I think if you look at most sponsors they have that type of wording in their TOS for the use of their free content.
Some programs do enforce this which is their choice since it is their copyrighted work - I remember a conversation where some people thought that it was out of bounds for a sponsor to have that requirement but legally they are well within their rights - and even if you make money with them they can legally not pay you

This would even extend to hosted galleries since you would be using their content but if you skim you are not always sending the surfer to that specific program

Im sure there is going to be the outcry that this is stupid from some WMs - there was last time - but its really up to the sponsor to make those decisions