at the risk of derailing the thread… no affiliates that i know of have been arrested and there are a lot of us here in the US. i dont know where each of my users comes from, what they click on or what they do when they leave my site, but as far as I know we can visit any site we want to as long as we dont engage in illegal activity.
i dont believe i will get arrested for providing advertising to my international clients when the topic is online gambling. i dont know the users, i dont process the payments, and i dont take bets.
when people are optimisitc (especially when we are on the industry’s side) please don’t be so quick to knock us on the head – there are alternate ways of looking at things here…. and really our energy is deserved elsewhere… like building websites… :wink-wink