People can't be controlled, directed or owned. They're people at a keyboard with a mouse. They always did and always will follow content. Big porn semi monopolies don't need 100s or 1,000s of affiliates demanding everything and payment.
Cut the free content and the affiliate dies very fast and the
surfers who used to be going to him, go elsewhere. Affiliates create nothing for the industry as a whole. Only for individual sites. The only reason today for affiliates is loads of sponsors fighting each other to get affiliates to send the people. Take away them fighting for people to come and look at their samples. You remove the need for affiliates.
Even Roald will find it hard if the sponsors stop paying him. That's all they have to do to grab the people on his site. Unless he can find other places to send them, he's gone. ALL affiliates are reliant on the man with the money. Lots of them, the affiliates can switch sponsors, to few. The options are gone.
So the answer to the question is I'm afraid to say for all the affiliates out there is YES.
What it won't mean is the death of the shooters.
So those with a lot of content, set up a site and see if you can feed it with the people coming to your affiliate site. Traffic = people.