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Bottom line is, Apple has filed a DMCA report against Clickbank according to a message I received from Clickbank today, May 15, 2008. "ClickBank has decided to impose a moratorium on any new products that use "IPHONE" "IPOD" or "ITUNES" in their domain names or used such names or related images." No more $30 commissions for iphone download membership sites like Ipod Downloads Pro, Iphone Nova, Iphone Download Pro, Iphone Unlimited, Fill Your Iphone, Iphone Magic... The membership site's recourse? "Each site either submits a counter-notification that contains all the required information, or the publisher can provide confirmation that they have permission from Apple to use its names and images to promote specific products." Moxie Drive Expressions has removed, or is in the process of removing, all text links and banner ads related to these membership sites. there goes about $400 per month from Clickbank. That's OK. I found it to be a distraction from any Adsense and Chitika income. The membership sites have the choice of paying Apple whatever copyright fees necessary to keep their sites alive. Certainly they have made enough money to do this and get Clickbank to reactivate them. Certainly this kind of thing has happened before, right? Think about all the Adwords ads that are leading to now defunct web pages. And we thought Google made us jump when they changed their algorithm. Now Apple is doing it. All those ads are now costing the ad publisher with no chance of income on the conversion. Neat, huh? A publisher's recourse - it is back to promoting mp3 and music download, movie download, and game download sites that do not infringe on the Apple DMCA. Maybe there is still some income potential for download membership sites, just not the ones labeled "Iphone", "Ipod", or "Itunes" in their URL. I'm sure the membership sites will figure out a way...
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