Commission Junction, one of the largest affiliate networks, suffered a
Partial Outage [webmasterworld.com] on Nov 30th during the height of the Christmas shopping season. Today they announced that they have decided to compensate their affiliates for the outage and boost their commissions that day by 15%.
Kudos to CJ for stepping up. I don't think you would see this from a lot of other affiliate, banner ad, or contextual ad sources.