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Originally Posted by MaDalton
There have been cases in the past where people bought access to CP by being instructed to sign up to a regular porn site via affiliate link. So yes, it is in the interest of the affiliate program to know who they are dealing with.
And I am not an American tax expert and from my dealings with CCBill in the past I know that they don't care about things like that, but as a European company paying affiliates I need to know whether you are an individual or company and where you are located. Because it has implications on whether VAT applies or not.
If someone wants to do business with me but doesn't want to reveal their identity, I would just skip doing business with that person.
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Perhaps there's some confusion here. To sign up for the affiliate program one has to provide identifying information. Otherwise, how does somebody even get paid properly? There's a distinction between that and KYC. I'm talking full KYC, which is completely unnecessary. And whatever bad thing somebody did that you cite, it doesn't sound like that would be solved by KYC'ing affiliate webmasters. What am I going to do with an affiliate link that isn't being done by the actual merchant? And CP, by the way, is illegal. It can already be stopped and prosecuted. No need for affiliate programs to KYC affiliate webmasters.