I find it extremely alarming too.
If you are making money with a program and they change the terms to this, they have you by the balls.
If you take them down, you forfeit income owed to you now.
If you don’t take them down, you risk losing a lot more income in the future since you are hopefully building up a player base.
It’s theft, pure and simple. It’s a refusal of payment of monies owed to you.
My new site will be very careful not to touch such programs with a ten foot pole, and to take any of them down immediately as they implement this.
You will find that programs who do that now think that they are safe because of the new law. They figure since there are not too many places taking US residents, they can shaft affiliates with impunity.
I thought the new law would bring some hardships for us, I didn’t figure our “partners” would turn on us and try to exploit us.
This industry is going down the tubes.