I think free enterprise will take care of this too and rakeback will survive, especially in a room driven form – http://www.pokershare.com is taking the concept a step further. We shall see what happens I guess.
For the record, you can have my rakeback back when you pry it from my cold dead fingers. It’s not even the money (I make very little from rakeback because I don’t play as much as I would like and I like bonuses more than I should) it’s the principle of an affiliate’s right to spend money on what they want.
If the rooms tell us we can’t spend our money on our players, what’s next “you can’t spend money on the following PPC keywords – “poker, online poker, texas holdem…”?
By the way, I know people who have rakeback one or more of those rooms Dominique listed as being clean. Not me, I don’t play at them outside of bonus times because of their anti-rakeback stance. But as long as rev share exists people with enough smarts can get rakeback.
Also, I know because I have done it – if you ask nicely changing your email address is all you need to do to get a new account with a new affiliate on many sites. Sorry to burst your bubble but they only try to catch people who are creating new accounts for the signup bonus, they aren’t protecting the affiliates.
Do you really want to bring an end to revshare? That’s the only way of really stopping rakeback. The genie is out of the bottle.
By the way, chat spammers are a bane on society and should have their accounts confiscated (along with the minimum balance sites should make people have to be able to observer chat).