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I think one way to fix this shit is set up a central agency to handle all DMCA takedown requests (preferably electronically) then once confirmed make the website in question hosting the content pay a $9 fee to the owner of the content and a $1 processing fee to the agency for each verified violation. After 24 hours if it isn't removed multiply the fee by ten for each passing 24 hour period (day 1- $10; day 2- $100; day3 - $1000, and so on). After 30 days of an outstanding bill the agency will go after the host and eventually will seize the domain and auction it off to pay any monies owed. Let the pirates pay the costs involved in protecting content from piracy since after all it is their sites. Right now that's the main problem. It costs the content owner money to get the content taken down while it costs the pirate nothing.
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