I understand that the page you showed uses copied content but everytime I see a thread about the so called ‘black hat seo’ it goes hand in hand with copyright infringement.
I think everyone would agree that copyright infringement is not only wrong but against the law, so there’s nothing to argue about on that front (except for whether we should support aff progs who support copyright infringement)
We need to split copyright out of the equation and discuss the two points individualy.
On the point of copyright infringement, I think we should do whatever we can to persuade the aff progs that they cannot support these illegal affiliates and if they do then we need to take action against them.
But on the point of ‘black hat seo’ I believe the only people who should have any authority over what can and cannot be used as SEO is the search engines themselves.
Everyone uses whatever techniques they can use, and feel comfortable with, it’s the search engines call to decided what is and is not ok.