Originally Posted by Paul Markham

DMCA is the first step to going to court or the last step in trying to bring down your stolen content. When 99.9% of people who send one do so they are hoping the site, hosting company or anyone else will take notice and remove the content. I imagine the odds on them taking people to court who refuse to honor a DMCA are a lot longer than 1 in 99.

In fact a thief could say he never got the notice and you would never be able to prove it, unless you sent is via Fed Ex and could prove it. When you do that and go to court you also need screen caps and videos to prove the offending site was offending on the day you alleged. Yes you can do it under a sworn oath and the defendant can counter it with his sworn oath.

Most times a polite email with the URL and proof it's yours will get the content taken down. But that requires the willingness of the offender.

To Donny. You're wasting your time because these guys have no answer to Tubes. And because of that Tubes will change the business for them. In fact Tubes are changing the business for them. They are losing sales and putting up more free content to combat the deluge of free content on the Net.

Now they will flame me and tell affiliates to come to their sites to get their free content to get more traffic that will pass over their site. Or start their own Tube site.