Originally Posted by JMM

The way to go after the billing company is for everyone who has content on megarotic to send DMCA notices to the biller. One of the main components of DMCA protection is how repeat infringements are handled. For a company to even have DMCA protection, they MUST have a policy dealing with repeat infringement. This would be the easiest way to shut these sites down, the ones who have a pay component.

Sadly, most people don't send DMCA notices because they don't know how.

One of the things that the lawyer is working on is an automated DMCA system for people to use. The "sticky" part that they are investigating is how an automated DMCA system would be viewed as "practicing law".

If it is run by an individual or company then it could be viewed as practicing law without a license. The simple solution is to get a law firm to run it. However, that would take out the most convenient aspect, automated. If a law firm is going to offer it, then there has to be some system of manual review, which of course increases costs.

I'll update you once we have this part figured out.