Originally Posted by cerulean

I appreciate your insight. To me it has always been a combination of different efforts that reach the furthest. Short-term and long-term approaches, when employed together, will do the most good even if they are costlier upfront.

I don't know of any US-based, or allied country file sharing sites (that would respect the U.S. copyright office or a C&D outright.) Sure, a lot of these sites use something like Cloudflare or Amazon as a firewall/CDN, but after they're dropped by Cloudflare or Amazon, co-infringers might only be in countries where it's exceedingly difficult to bring a lawsuit like that. In those situations, I am not sure there's much you can do except exercise mitigation efforts.

Major mainstream companies, including every production company and streaming site out there, suffers from the same problem that the adult industry does. Although somewhat unrelated to the topic of copyright, I would add to my previous post to say, the easier it is for content to be obtained legally, the harder it is to justify piracy and obtaining that content illegally.