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I find it hilarious that so many posters here seem to think that Party, a multi-billion dollar publicly traded company, just sort of decided on a whim to cut off the skins without talking to the skins or looking at the contracts or anything.

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No, never thought they acted on a whim. This appears to have been very well planned from their end, and carried out in a way that as the poster stated, caught people with their pants down. Neither the sites nor the affiliates seem to have known this was coming yesterday.

It's the apparent secrecy and sudden action that makes me wonder if the skins may have some legal recourse. They may very well not. It will depend on the contracts, and to a degree, the skill of legal counsel for all involved.