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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions
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Keep DMCAing those pages to their host (if they do not respond to DMCAs themselves). They'll have to close them, and it is harder to repost entirely then to simply change links within the already existing post. Most of them give up at this point and leave your content alone.
But if they do repost again and again keep sending DMCAs to their host and add (SECOND/THIRD etc) to the subject. It also wouldn't hurt to bitch within reason, to refer to the recent court precedences in the Netherlands (such as closing of news-service.com), and to mention that if they keep covering their client's outright criminal activity you'll hire a lawyer in their country and he'll sue them on your behalf for astronomical damages (which is an absolutely possible thing to do).
Most hosts will start getting nervous after systematic DMCA bombing for their one specific client from the same copyright holder, and they'll bark at their client to leave you alone. The more DMCAs they get from you, the more they expose themselves to a lawsuit, which most of them of course do not like in the least bit.
Yes unfortunately sending DMCAs to oron and filesonic wouldn't help much in many intances because they'd simply change links - those criminal filehosts never remove the master file (and of course never block new uploads of this file by hash), so pirates can simply generate new set of links to this file(s) and repost, and of course they'd never close repeat infringer's account because they're in here to sqeeze every little drop from piracy and then they'd simply dissapear into the sunset. But pirates' other partners are different, most of them are there for a long haul, they have much more to loose and it is possible to force compliance on them. You just have to be persistent. Constant, systematic pressure is what works, not an occasional DMCA or two.
And btw it is more than possible that if you raise enough hell with their host, and do it often enough (if this particular pirate would not leave you alone), that their host will close that blog altogether to avoid getting into legal trouble with you, or simple to get rid of you because they're tired and answering your e-mails consumes too much of their time.