No players are lost with this term, as soon as you start delivering players again you continue to earn from them.
The clause punishes people for bad luck such as having search engine trouble because of scraper sites, sites that copy yours and make you look like duplicate content and all kinds of black hat techniques that make us lose positioning or worse, get penalized. There are other things, like personally I lost a well working site because someone hacked into my server and used the domain of this site for Phishing. I had to abandon the domain.
S#!t happens, and people suffering from the Black Hat Seo happens every day now. I woke up the other day to find my number 1 position moved to the bottom of the page by all scraper sites, not a real site in the bunch.Punishing people for this by taking away their livelihood is not good business.
Re. your performance on my page – it could be just bad luck like all the above situations. New textlinks compete with a lot of other text links. Not unlike the affiliate world, I suppose.