Originally Posted by Dankasaur

I disagree... You can take better approaches to things... For example, Notch, the creator of the ever so popular game Minecraft, he's combatted piracy by being cool about the whole thing.. I remember not long ago there was a huge story about him in the media because some kid pirated the game and felt bad afterwords and tweeted at him saying if he could afford it he would have bought it that the game was worth it... What did Notch do? He found out where the kid lived and beat his parents knee caps in threatening to kill them infront of him unless he uninstalled the game.... Nah I'm kidding.. He sent the kid a free key to the game...

As a content guy, yeah you're gonna deal with tons of people stealing your stuff, just like I do as a software developer... The best action I believe is to not be an asshole... Contact the tubes, most of them now have content partnerships... Sure they may have gotten to their size stealing content, but that's in the past, you can't do anything about that... You know what you can do? You can combat their users from uploading your pirated stuff by working WITH them to add your promo content to their sites and just keep an eye out on your stuff being uploaded too and just send legit DMCA's.

Sure that route sounds hard to maintain because you'll be sending DMCA's up the ass every day to keep your videos removed, but they will remove them... They aren't some kid in their mothers basement running a site on Dreamhost... They're legit businesses who have people who will work with you.

Good luck and I hope you can put your angers away and see the big picture and prosper.