i've come across my content being shared in the same fashion and wondered what to do about it myself, but i don't think targeting the forums themselves is the real answer personally... its fucking rapidshare in my eyes.
the forums, while disseminating links to the content, aren't ever hosting it are they? no different than legal services like newzbin.com, which indexes the usenet (please note this is very different than GUBA, which not only hosts the indexed content but also re-encodes it for download by its customers... obvious theft).
is there a way to report rapidshare abuse and get the content deleted, kill off the accounts of those who are using the service to distribute stolen content? usually what i see is links posted to their rapidshare folders, w/ passwords to access the folders supplied as well. will rapidshare do anything or not, has anyone contacted them w/ demands to remove stolen content, how do they react?
again, targeting the forums seems a losing battle, but if we could do something about the hosting of said stolen content instead there wouldn't be much reason for the forums to continue?
serious question, which i'd love to see something done about..
