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Originally Posted by MattO
How about tracing IP's of the seeders? I'm sure not all are using a proxy.
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What do you hope to accomplish by sending a scary letter to what is probably some broke 19 year old kid? If you have a seven figure war chest, you might be able to cause some fear like the RIAA was able to do. Short of that, the best you can hope for is to get the thief to quit torrenting for a few months.
Even if you start going after the seeders, you won't get them all. The torrent will remain alive.
All of that work probably won't stop any lost sales. It will cost you a lot of time or money to accomplish what amounts to nothing more than making a point based in principle.
If you want practical results, start flooding illegal tubes with DMCA takedown notices, then proceed upstream to their host, then to that host's upstream. If you can make illegal hosting of your content a problem for well visited tubes, it will keep your content from proliferating there.
Tubes are what is killing sales. Torrents/newsgroups/rapidshare/IRC have been around much longer than tubes, and we never saw a huge falloff from them.
Focus on getting content down from where your otherwise paying customers might be getting it for free. Torrents are not the number one priority there. Plus, most torrent sites and seeders generally do it for free or costs only, but the tubes are making big profits from the theft. If you can help the community reduce the profitability of the illegal tubes, then there won't be nearly as many of them.