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Originally posted by Mutt
APIC is almost useless. How many successful lawsuits where people have been financially compensated for the infringements have come from APIC?
As far as I know APIC takes complaints and then sends out the DMCA emails to the infringers and their hosting companies.
Nobody fears that. If the only penalty to robbing a bank was if i got caught was that they made me put the money back, it would be a good thing to be a bank robber.
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Mutt seeing as you do not have a clue what you are talking about I will forgive you.
APIC have enough teeth to make the sponsors and hosts sit up and take notice. Usually the thief is a smally guy sitting in his back bedroom stealing pictures to put up a website for free. Usually an AVS or TGP poster, simply because they do not have the resources to open a paysite.
If the DMCA is ignored by the webmaster, it is then served higher up the chain. Here is where it is taken notice of. This recipient will look and judge it knowing if he get's it wrong he can face a very expensive lawsuit, against an attorney working on a contingency.
It's at this point that all APIC members are notified to see if the site contains more stolen material, usually if the guy steals from one he steal from many. Then the people with the money to lose discover they are up against a class action.
The advantage of going via APIC is simple, a lawyer will cost many $$$ an hour, you only have you looking for your content. If it comes to the point of suing it is you alone against them. Doing it on your own is next to useless with a lot of webmasters.
But then I suppose the people
on this list are all wrong. Maybe they get less pirating than you. *sarcasm*
OK what is your alternative suggestion, as someone who sells exclusive and passes copyright over to the buyer?