What will happen to paid links implemented using JavaScript?

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Published on September 17, 2009 6:33:37 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmoHmfy5AcQ

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Magico from London, UK asks:

"Now that Google can crawl JavaScript links, what is going to happen with all those paid links that were behind JavaScript code? Will Google start penalising them?"

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