I have been reading the discussions and concerns from affiiate managers about this on other public and private forums. Some ideas and comments I have read include:
1) All affiate managers should review their current agreements to ensure you have strong anti-spam rules and should probably state - anyone caught spamming will be removed with commissions forfeited.
2) This may not help you avoid frivolous lawsuits but if you end up in court, could work in your favor.
3) More and more AMs lately have been discussing cutting down on the # of affiliates in their program,
being more selective and only working with top, ethical perfomers. This movement was under way before the Spam laws, but some are saying now that it's even more important to work lean and mean with 1,000 partners as opposed to trying to managed 3-4,000 partners that you can't possibly get to know or personally mentor and monitor.
NOTE: These are just ideas and they aren't all mine. This is not intended as any kind of legal advice and I am not saying to implement any of these changes. Just sharing info and ideas.
What do you think???
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