One of the many benefits of joining HD Publishing Group (HDPG) Affiliate Program is the simple, but very important fact that you do not have to worry about adware affiliates stealing your hard-earned commissions. According to, AffiliateFairPlay CJ, BeFree, and ValueClick are involved in 2 class action lawsuits because of this problem. At HDPG, the Affiliate Marketing staff, works hard to make sure that this issue is not one that you have to worry about when joining our program. We have a parasite-free policy which forbids any HDPG affiliate from joining with adware applications to sell our services.

On April 20, 2007, two class action lawsuits were filed against CJ, BeFree, and ValueClick. One was filed by the Affiliates and the other by the Merchants. The lawsuit was filed on terms of a breach of contract, negligence and unfair business practices on CJ, BeFree, and ValueClick’s part by allowing adware affiliates to operate within their Network. The basis of the lawsuit is that these companies are knowingly allowing these adware affiliates to join the network which allows them to commit commission theft and fraudulent transactions through adware applications. Both Plaintiffs in this case are seeking monetary damages along with a change in ValueClick’s corporate policy related to adware and compliance.

For the official information about this lawsuit visit CJclassation.com.