Originally Posted by GUNNER

So it's simple. If everyone would police their content and all the tubes, as you say, honor 100% of the remove requests... problem solved. Yet, at what point doesn't it just become a vicious circle?

Every program increases their staff with a full-time DMCA guy who has the daunting task of locating all of that program's pirated content and sending DMCA notices to the hundreds of illegal tubes. Then the tubes just sit around all day waiting constantly uploading new material, waiting to be DMCAd and take it down, just to have a different tube uploading more stuff tomorrow. That process repeats over and over and....

Would what you're suggesting help? Yes, to some degree it would and I support what you're saying wholeheartedly. Studios should be doing more. That said, suggesting producer negligence or their lack of diligence in content theft monitoring and sending DMCA notices would somehow alleviate the entire situation, really underestimates the magnitude of it all. DMCA does help to a very small degree, but it is not the answer and it will not solve the problem alone.