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Originally Posted by GetSCORECash
The forum posters don't stop, they need the cash.
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Well that is actually the reason why forum posters CAN be stopped. If you remove all their new uploads, they usually give up after a week or two, and either switch to posting some other stuff or quit posting altogether. They do not have any fat to sustain them through the hard times, and usually quicky drop anything that doesnt bring in the immediate cash return.
Stalking posters is of course a trick of itself, but it's doable.
Old school posters who mostly worked for a few "thank you"s and a free premium rapidshare account were not that easily thwarted, because they were not financially interested (or at least that was not a priority), they also had an ideology to justify what they're doing (sharing is caring, however twisted alot of them truly believed in that sharing nonsense) and community support. And they were usually a niche connoisseurs who knew where to find good stuff and knew it's not easily replacable with something else, that's why they didnt switch quickly to some other stuff after DMCA bombing. They'd start dodging, using linksave, rename files, move to other board(s) (alone with the hordes of their followers). It was also not uncommon for them to actually buy access to paysites that they wanted to "share" with their buddies to get appreciation.
It is all gone with the new generation of serial cash posters. Money is the only ideology that they have now, and most of them is actually too dumb to have any other. That makes them easier and more vulnerable targets - when they see some type of content is being systematically taken down, they skip on it and move on.