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Nope, I am not being sarcastic. If someone won't protect their intellectual property then it's their problem if they lose it. There are so many ways to do it easily, one being the ever popular APIC, that there is no excusing letting it go -- especially if someone is aware of it for a period of time. If we catch you stealing our FreshPhotos content, we'll come after you, at the least have it taken down, but if we can get reparations for the theft, we'll do that as well. That is and has been our policy from day one. If I see someone else's content being stolen, I'll tell them about it -- then it is up to them to do something, it's not my issue, I was at least nice enough to tell them where I saw it.
Now, let's take credit card scamming, which is not at all akin to content theft.
Credit cards are NOT intellectual property, they are symbols of physical property and currency. Consumers should, and usually are, aware of what they pay for with their cards, regardless of what they say when they charge back, and it is their job to watch their statements.
We don't do business with known scammers, we don't do business with people we think to be scammers. That is how we treat the issue. If processors, banks, or the cc's know someone is a scammer, THEY should terminate processing for said company, no different than anything else.
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