Commission Junction, the largest affiliate management company, is changing from allowing affiliates to use any type of link to only JavaScript links.
The option to view and use Legacy links will only be available for publishers with relationships that were formed PRIOR to June 23, 2006. Any publisher-advertiser relationships formed after this date will only provide JavaScript links.
Full details at http://cju.cj.com/publishers/lmipub_en.html, you will need to login to view the contents of this page.
This can be bad news for SEMs.
The threads are already hoping at DigitalPoint Forums & WebmasterWorld.