Quote Originally Posted by QueerLust View Post
I've heard that, too.

From a sponsor standpoint, I think that is a dumb business move.

The thing about providing content as a sponsor is that you get to pick and choose what's out there.

Give access to enough affiliates and they are all going to eventually gobble up your content. There will be no need to subscribe if affiliates have all of your wares out there. Or, worse yet, an affiliate that downloads everything and then pirates it or does other nefarious things with it.

If you're going to have to give away your content to shady people, at least get a one month membership out of them. :groovy:

Edit: I am not saying that affiliates are shady. I am talking about pirates. If they are going to leak your content all over the net, at least get a membership fee out of them for it. Otherwise, a pirate will just join as an affiliate and get it all for free.
And yet, many affiliates demand it, and sponsors give it. I wonder, if we have lost sight of just what is the relationship here. The affiliate is just a sales representative, that gets a piece of the pie, IF they sell anything.

Too many affiliates seem to believe they are somehow PARTNERS with the sponsors, even though they bear no responsibilities for the costs of production.

And sponsors aren't really much different in how they provide pictures, where the only difference between picture one and picture fifteen, is that the arm is higher, or the face tilted a bit differently. I mean come on, why bother at all, if you are so tight assed, you wont release fifteen different, unique images?

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