Jump all over who? (Take a pill and chill on the punctuation please...)
"Mention rake back and you just jump all over us"
I don't know what you mean by that, but anyway, rakeback is prohibited by some sites, and if you do it with them you are a cheat. Other sites allow it, so that is completely different and you have their permission.
"I still dont understand why you think being a 'normal' affiliate is any different"
What is not to understand? With rakeback you send money to individual people based on their play at an online gambling site where you profited from their play. Obviously that is illegal. It is different than "normal" affiliates in that you deal with specific people, where you clearly knowingly break some state laws, like if you have a player located in Utah. "Normal" affiliates can just throw up their hands and say they don't know where these players are located. They could all be in the UK for example.
"We all make commisions for referring players. What does it matter what we do with the money"
No we "all" don't. I never take MGR because it is illegal for a US citizen. (More importantly to my own personal choice, I believe it illegal.)
It should be clear that it matters "what you do" with the money if you are paying a person to break laws in their state. Duh. It is clearly a major extra step on a legal spectrum.
1) Taking upfront
paid advertising doesn't require you to have anything to do with whether someone gambles after clicking a link of yours or not.
2) Taking CPA is a next step where you still don't care how much anyone gambles.
3) Taking MGR you are now in partnership with an online gambling entity where you benefit directly from whether people gamble online or not. However, in general you don't know where these people are, or what laws of their localities are.
4) Doing rakeback you deal with specific individuals in specific geographic locations where your interaction with this person is subject to not just your local laws, but theirs also, and your involvement in the gaming process is doubled over just taking MGR, literally you have money coming and going.
Do what you want, but the answer to the person's question is that there is much greater legal risk involved in rakeback.
Nelson's Rose's article is very helpful in thinking about this stuff:
http://www.gamblingandthelaw.com/Int...uidelines.html
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