Led, according to your example it would be ok if I set up shop in the US and tried to sell alcohol to under 21 year olds.
All I was saying is that the public companies may have overreacted but they have to be careful because their directors and officers are held liable. At the other end of the program I see less respectable aff programs that wouldn´t stop at breaking the law just to make a quick buck. And no I am not saying that the mentioned publicly quoted programs were great in the way they dealt with affiliates in the past.