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Originally Posted by SteveLightspeed
The files we are tracking are full site rips of our most popular sites. I don't care how much of it they are sharing, they are still enabling theft of my content.
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Is your goal to use these threats of lawsuits as another source of income or to scare people into paying for your content through site memberships and DVDs? If anything I think it will just push people to use tubes and direct download sites like Rapidshare or one of the dozen other sites offering the same functionality. It's also possible that people hearing about these lawsuits and seeing people publicly humiliated, not for theft, but for watching porn, may backfire and make people more reluctant to type in their personal details and join a site.
Have you filed copyrights for all your content with the government? Because judges will look for this if someone decides to go to court and may throw your whole case out if you have not.
I am totally in support of you doing what you feel is necessary to legally protect your intellectual property. I do not think this is the answer though and I would not be surprised if the money you get from this will last at most a couple years.