Interesting thread indeed. It's been done in the music industry I believe. Check out torrent freak: torrentfreak. com/file-sharing-lawyers-to-face-disciplinary-tribunal-100823/
I dunno if it's similar or not but there you go. I honestly wonder what's next after torrents. There will probably be some bullet proof system where it's near impossible to track people
Oh an for the record, I am a web host. I occasionally get DMCA notices to pass onto my clients. Even for the servers I host in Europe and the UK, I pass on DMCA. I don't even know if it applies there, but I pass them on anyway.