thefightback

Hi Guys!

I've been lurking on here for a few weeks monitoring the posts regarding piracy and DMCA laws. It's obviously a major problem for the industry, I have my entire site's content made available but a group of cunts on a DC++ hub. From there the users pick up the new content - within days of an update where upon they post it and earn their affiliate dollars.

So far a number of us (in our niche) have been applying pressure on the file uploading sites. Some have given us a login so we can manually delete files instantly via a console although this took a LOT of pressure - basically bug the fuck out of them until they relent. We've also chased some hosts who have kicked forums from their servers. The problem is that they just run to the next host and will continue to do so until they end up in some fart flung like North Korea.

We're now getting to the stage where we are looking at legal action - you can delete only so many files before it dawns upon you that things are beyond a joke and something really does have to be done.

Why do Webmasters not group together in an attempt to bring about an action - surely the shared costs will make it affordable and we cannot lose can we? I do wonder how sites like pornbb continue to exist - why have none of the big studios taken action?

The good news is the efforts of the pirates will only expediate the development of a secure platform from which to server content up (although someone will make a lot of money out of us in the process) without making it freely available.

Interested to hear your thought re: legal action.

Regards,

The Fight Back!