Compliance used to feel like an annoying tax on real marketing. That's no longer true. In 2024, U.S. courts logged 2,788 TCPA cases, a 67% jump over the prior year, with class actions accounting for more than 80% of filings (National Law Review, 2025). The U.K. raised its PECR ceiling from £500,000 to £17.5 million. Australia hit Telstra with an AU$626,000 infringement notice for one mishandled campaign. Affiliate marketing is now a regulated activity across every major jurisdiction, and the gap between operators who treat compliance as design and those who treat it as paperwork has become the difference between scaling and getting shut down.