TGPs skimming off thumb from sponsor gallery

Hell Puppy · 08-11-2004

There's a big brou-ha-ha on a couple of the other boards between a sponsor and a TGP owner, that brings up an interesting issue....

Here's the scenario. Sponsor provides free gallery content for TGP posting as virtually all sponsors do now. Affiliate grabs the content and posts the gallery on his TGPs. These TGPs are thumb based, which means instead of a text link to the gallery it uses a cropped thumb from the gallery to link to the gallery.

Sponsor is making his rounds looking for fraud or whatever and see's the thumb, clicks the thumb and is sent somewhere else instead of to his gallery. Sponsor has a "hissy fit" and bans the affiliate and even goes so far as to get his host to shut him down for using unlicensed content. The TGP is running a skim, and that particular click was redirected to a trade. So the affiliate doesn't see any problem with it.

Added twist: what really set the sponsor off is not only did his thumb re-direct to something other than his gallery, it sent him to some other site that tried to Hooper-ify his system with a toolbar.

Thoughts?

08-11-2004	#1
Hell Puppy Fat Fucking Nobody Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 6,523	There's a big brou-ha-ha on a couple of the other boards between a sponsor and a TGP owner, that brings up an interesting issue.... Here's the scenario. Sponsor provides free gallery content for TGP posting as virtually all sponsors do now. Affiliate grabs the content and posts the gallery on his TGPs. These TGPs are thumb based, which means instead of a text link to the gallery it uses a cropped thumb from the gallery to link to the gallery. Sponsor is making his rounds looking for fraud or whatever and see's the thumb, clicks the thumb and is sent somewhere else instead of to his gallery. Sponsor has a "hissy fit" and bans the affiliate and even goes so far as to get his host to shut him down for using unlicensed content. The TGP is running a skim, and that particular click was redirected to a trade. So the affiliate doesn't see any problem with it. Added twist: what really set the sponsor off is not only did his thumb re-direct to something other than his gallery, it sent him to some other site that tried to Hooper-ify his system with a toolbar. Thoughts?