If an affiliate who promotes a sponsor is supposed to keep 2257 records just like a primary producer/sponsor does, then how affiliates are supposed to get these records? Do any sponsors really do this for affiliates?

I'm not talking about purchased content. I'm talking about an affiliate who makes/creates no content, and has blogs/sites that promote sponsors who do make the content.

It's hard for me to imagine a sponsor taking or having time to continuously find and copy records for each and every pic and movie that a sponsor asks for, and do this all week and every week forever. That's just for one affiliate! Let alone a handful, hundreds or a four digit number of affiliaites. And affiliates don't work with just one or two sponsors. It seems the only answer is for sponsors to provide all 2557 records that an affiliate needs in the affiliate resource areas, automatically provided with each download of content, and when obtaining links for hosted content, etc.. But I don't see any sponsor doing this or doing this now or in the future. I'm not even sure if it is totally legal for sponsors to give out private info like that, or maybe it is. I know especially if dealing with sponsors outside of the US, many times it IS illegal.

So I would really like to know how this could possibly work when it seems nearly impossible for affiliates to even get the records in the first place. I don't know why this obviously crucial question hasn't been addressed in any discussion on 2257 discussions that say affiliates also need to keep records.