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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions
I'm a small time producer and a thread on the site phun was pirated 6 of my good videos. I DMCAed filesonic 3 times now, the infrigner keeps uploading and I have no way to get him directly. The webmaster at phun hasn't replied to any of my 3 emails. So I started contacting a lot of the producers whose work is in the thread. The only one that really showed initiative was from blacksonblondes.
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Try this.
If the scumbags don't remove your content after a DMCA, do a TRACE ROUTE to their domain, then use ARIN to look up the owners of their IP address, then DMCA the host provider.
If this does not work, lookup the owner of the next IP Address in line and send the DMCA to them.
Small time tube site owners who post stolen content don't give a damn and will ignore your DMCA. Hosting providers, pay more attention of course but if they ignore you, they will not ignore THEIR upstream provider.
We used to have a girl working for us in our art department making banners. She quit one day to start her own business and took our banners and content with her including photos of models that we owned the copyright to.
She ignored our requests and notices like the dummy she was but she paid attention when Godaddy suspended her account, at least for a little while.
She then thought she would be smart and move it to a hosting company that belonged to a friend of hers. That hosting company ignored us, but they did not ignore their provider when we DMCA'ed them.
Yes it takes a little leg work but it doesn't have to cost you alot in legal fees. DMCA'ing thieves works if you do it the right way.
Good luck!