CrakRevenue Cracks Down On Sites With Stolen and Illegal Content Hosting Their Ads
Popular adult affiliate program CrakRevenue has announced that it is rolling out a new “Ethical Content Policy”, effective July 15, 2021. CrakRevenue has been criticized in the past for allowing pirate sites to be affiliates, and it looks like this new policy will crack down on this. The policy states that affiliates will first be given the opportunity to remove the ads on offending sites, and refusal to do so will result in termination of their CrakRevenue account. The policy and announcement of the policy did not indicate that CrakRevenue will be actively reviewing all accounts, however, so this will likely only be enforced when violations are reported to the company. With that said, if you see CrakRevenue offers promoted on sites violating the policy, there is now a reasonable chance that CrakRevenue will actually care.
CrakRevenue Ethical Content Policy – Main Takeaways
NATURE OF CONTENT
It is strictly forbidden to display our ads on sites that may present in any way the following illegal and harmful content:
- Publication of stolen or illegally obtained content;
- Presentation of sexual acts and exploitation involving minors under the age of 18;
- Presentation of acts of sexual violence against individuals or animals;
- Publication of images of actual violence;
- Presentation of content of an extreme and/or unethical nature.
NON-COMPLIANCE – ILLEGAL, EXTREME, OR UNETHICAL
The following list of non-compliant elements and content is not exhaustive and CrakRevenue may, at its discretion, modify or add certain elements:
- Pedophilia, incest, and other presentations of sexual acts or exploitation involving minors under the age of 18 or greatly resembling minors;
- Rape and non-consensual relationship, including simulation of;
- Prostitution and sexual exploitation;
- Content that is stolen, obtained illegally, or appears to be obtained illegally;
- Zoophilia;
- Scatophilia;
- Incitement to hatred or incitement to discrimination against people based on their origins, gender, sexual orientation, or disability;
- Threats or incitement to violence;
- Illicit trafficking (drugs, weapons, etc.);
- Actual violence (murder, etc.);
- Endangerment of individuals;
- Fraud; and
- Terrorism (threat or intent).
To that effect, we require that our ads only be displayed on sites that:
- Are not based on business models that contravene our Ethical Content Policy;
- Do not operate under a domain name that contains terms that refer to illegal, extreme, or unethical content;
- Do not contain easily identifiable illegal, extreme or unethical categories or content;
- Its owner has appropriate documentation and record-keeping pursuant to applicable legislation and regulation pertaining to the performers being 18 years of age or older (i.e. 18 U.S. Code § 2257); and
- Offer their users to disclose any content allegedly in violation of copyrights via a compliant and functional DMCA procedure.