Contacting an affiliate and asking them to remove stolen content is like patching a hole in a bucket with a sieve.
More often than not, these types of affiliates are running dozens – if not hundreds – of sites, all ‘borrowing’ content from legitimate sites.
All they’ll do after being contacted and given a list of pages where they are publishing stolen content, is to remove those pages and only those pages.
I feel strongly that when an affiliate is caught red handed with stolen content, and it is proven beyond any doubt that they have stolen it, their accounts should be closed. Period.
I don’t understand how such theft is tolerated, and how giving them a limp slap on the wrist by asking for specific content to be removed can be considered a solution. IMO, this approach condons the theft.