And the image and likeness lawsuits are not unique to his properties.
>Forbes uncovered 11 such sites, all created in the late 1990s and early 2000s by Radvinsky and his Glenview, Illinois-based business, Cybertania. They included Password Universe, which, in 2000, published a link directing web users to a site claiming to offer pedophiles more than 10,000 “illegal pre-teen passwords.” In 1999, a site called Working Passes had a link for “the hottest underaged hardcore” containing 16-year-olds. Also in 2000, another site, Ultra Passwords, promised a link containing “the best illegal teen passwords” and “the hottest bestiality site on the web.”
If he wasn't offering that in actuality then its not shady
You should double check your ethics algorithms. It is absolutely “shady” to advertise child rape for profit, regardless of whether or not you intend to ultimately make good on that advertisement.
If the affiliate sites were actually intentionally providing that kind of media I would call it very shady to take affiliate dollars from them
the criminals are criminals this wasn’t a debate
it would be debatable whether that would make the affiliate payment transactions criminal, but that ship has sailed as its too late, which only makes it shady, if that media was being intentionally provided
if not, then not shady
easy calculus for me