It's in the TOS for a reason, and the mere fact that it is there means it's actionable. It isn't most of the time, but there's always a first time. If you're comfortable with the odds, then play them, but be aware of the potential risk.
why do you do as if you don't understand me? I'm not saying it is not in the tos, I'm saying it is VERY unlikely that someone will get banned for that as quickly as someone doing invalid clicks, I have never heard of anyone being banned for this reason, I heard a lot about being banned for fraudulent click or for being related to an account previously banned for fraudulent clicks, AM I CLEAR NOW? I'm afraid not.
Yeh and were saying were only telling you the terms in the contract that you signed, were not saying you deffinatly would get banned were just advising against it.
OK, if you re-read this thread you'll see a lot of people firmly believe or make other believe that google is banning at speed-light. I know of many times where people have been warned by email about a tos violation and had a chance to modify their page in order to comply with the tos. Only fraudulent clicks situation are not always warned first and it's up to you to check for your logs or I don't know what to avoid that. In fact it is very difficult to care about this yourself especially as a lot of adsense publishers are not webmasters, they're not much technical.
Don't you find it a little odd that Google doesn't want any webmaster to reveal their click-through ratios, etc.? It's like google is a 'web god' or something. They control search results, now they control ads on searched pages... what's left for them to take over? Global world domination?
LOL@MultiMedia I do wonder sometimes the reasoning behind some of G's TOS clauses. Oh well...Better safe than sorry. Just don't do it.