Had another thought which shows how wrong Rutopls is.
The big succesful webmaster like Quiet can afford to employ someone to keep searching & chasing pirates, getting them taken down, etc. And if all this fails he has enough money to recommend going to a lawyer to send letters out.
Us small guys who do not make $3 million a year cannot afford this to protect ourselves, so we use APIC.
When the professional pirate is surfing around for his next victim to download content from, he sees the site with the APIC banner on the front. And he thinks to himself "Those guys are complete fucking morons and arseholes who will serve DMCA notices on me, my host, my sponsor and anyone else they can think of" Not true but he reads this board amd this is the impression you are giving
So what do you think he does steal the content from an APIC protected site or move on? Unfortunately some do steal, but how many move on to target someone who sends out emails asking nicely, to a host who is not interested and/or a sponsor who thinks it's not his job to worry about pirates?
You know these people exist and who do you think the pirate is with?
So a webmaster buying content has an option, go to a supplier who protects his purchases or go to someone who does not. Same choice the pirate has steal from someone who will not be a problem or steal from someone who will be.
The pirate often not only steals the content he steals the design as well. He does that to one of my clients he toasted. Got that ARSEHOLE organisation APIC chasing him.
So please keep screaming what APIC are like, it serves to warn pirates not to steal our content.