I agree that affiliate programs should take an active role in combating copyright theft, content scraping and page hijacking. If your SEO scheme is based upon damaging the hard work of others then this is clearly unacceptable and often criminal behavior.
CAP encourages all its partners to ensure that their programs are not rewarding this sort of illegal behavior by a few bad affiliates.
That being said I would like to clarify that CAP doesnt take a position on other forms of SEO and believe those are up to the individual affiliate marketer.
It’s really no one’s business how you choose to set up or optimize your sites as long as you are not stealing others content or attempting to gain raking by negatively impacting others.
I think linking, keyword weighting and stuffing, page design, doorway pages and even “white hat” cloaking are at the discretion of the webmaster and should not be a basis for any action by the programs. In other words if you acheive high rankings without abusing other peoples websites or efforts then more power to you.
My two cents