ars and some other companies are very good about contacting the affiliate, and turning off the thief's account if they don't respond quickly.

i have found it uncomfortable to contact the thief. they are very unresponsive or hostile, and sometimes threatening. i neither want to get into a pissing match nor do i want my family threatened.

and in every case, the person was outside the u.s. and beyond my small business' ability to prosecute. python really tried to help me with one guy, but they discovered all the info they had on him was incorrect