The fileshare company will usually adhere to the DMCA I know hotlink are one of the slowest to respond usually.
Honestly I don’t think legal action is the route I dont think it is economical long term when someone can close up shop and re-open the next day,
Also from a host point of view these sites are all hosted on “DMCA Ignored hosts” based usually in the Netherlands or countries which have lacking copyright laws, so any legal action will basically be ignored by the host as that’s why the hosts are there is the first place. If you search google you will find loads of hosts that promise to ignore DMCA’s as sadly its a US law and a server based outside US is technically not covered by this.
While this site would not be effected by the plan, we are currently working on a new forum section here at gaydemon where we can hit a lot of other pirates who make money from ad revenues ect via grouped action, basically a lot of webmasters/studios/affiliates messaging ad networks and telling them that the sites they are paying and supporting are pirate sites, which is against 90% of ad networks rules…
Currently Studios buy ads from networks, just to have them displayed on pirate sites so its the paysites that are actually paying the pirates, and obviously that means more shitty traffic in the networks. So it works in everyones interests including ad networks to destroy these fuckers. But its a long battle as for every 5 pirate sites I have managed to grind down and destroy (by shall we say questionable means), I know 2 out of the 5 have just set up a new site and carried on… meaning starting the process all over again.
I know we spoke about this about a year ago Jamie, but since then we (a small group of studios/people) have managed to kill around 20 unique sites, which seems tiny, but with one site hosting 2 million links to fileshare hosts, and the others in the 10k link mark its actually something. It not going to happen overnight, but if we kill the big fish it leaves more and more time to identify and kill the smaller ones!
Hopefully the new piracy forum here will be active in the next few weeks as I sort some things with bjorn, and as a group we can hopefully use that forum board to share pirate sites, share and maintain a pirate IP/user/email database and start stamping this crap out slowly.
Dan
NOTE: When I say paysites are paying pirates, most paysites are not able to choose or see where traffic comes from, Its not me attacking paysites, or trying to reveal anything, but just pointing out these pirates do this as a JOB they are not sharing because they believe in free access to media they make money and from their Alexa ranks surely a lot of money from ad revenue. Sadly because of the way a lot of ad networks work, you cannot identify where bought traffic is sourced from and this results in studios buying traffic direct from pirates.
