If it interferes with my being able to do business I have to go after it.
What do you expect, people sitting back and watching their businesses shrivel up and saying: oh, ok, nothing constructive to be done here?
Someplace theory stops and reality sets in.
And in reality, these practices need to be stopped and we know exactly where and when.
Who all else does the same thing with no ill effect is irrelevant.
And the only recourse affiliates have is the affiliate programs who fund this stuff.
If you can’t go after it with the law, you have to cut off the money supply.
Also, I am not at all convinced this cannot be fought legally, I have varying opinions on that.