Some things you can and should do:
1) Stop the sharing of passwords completely using proper scripts. Most content theft is done through shared passwords, because content thieves make it a sport not to pay for anything. They will hardly ever pull their credit cards so they mainly use shared passwords. We're developing and already using scripts that make sharing of passwords by two or more people impossible. There are also scripts like Pennywize and StrongBox, I didn't like StrongBox, we were able to download with two people using one password at the same time and trashed StrongBox and started to develop our own scripts.
2) Embed user-ID in downloaded file and/or use watermarking technology to put user ID inside video-footage. If you find your footage on Rapidshare you download it, then you know which of your members is uploading your content, and you ban him to avoid further damage. We already developed a script to embed user ID in video file and we're working on the watermarking now.
3) Use a service like removeyourcontent.com or pitbull to have your content removed from Rapidshare, torrents etc
4) You can block access to your sites from countries like Russia and Ukraine and proxy servers completely. I'm not doing this because I get a few Russian paying members from time to time and haven't caught them uploading my content yet.
5) Disable usage of proxy servers in your member section. We developed scripts for that.
If all producers would start using these methods today, things would get very difficult for the Rapidshare, PayPal and torrent mafia. Anyone interested in using our scripts mail to
[email protected]