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Banks and payment systems are awesome to contact. If you know the guy is using Paypal to sell your content, or anything else, contact Paypal with a screen shot or two. They will close the account. Same with banks. When that Oron case happened in 2012 and those records became public I found the name of a guy that was pirating my stuff and his bank info. I wrote to his bank in Romania about how he was using the bank and incoming wires for illegal acts online, fraud, tax evasion, etc. Guy never fucked with my shit again.
Just this past summer I wrote to Namik Tan, Ambassador, 2525 Massachusetts Avenue
NW Washington, DC 20008 and General Directorate of the Turkish National Police
Dikmen cad. No:11 06100 Çankaya, Ankara, TURKEY about a Turkish guy that was fucking with my stuff.
And that brings up an awesome point: Government agencies and elected officials. Great people to write to when you find a pirate that is living off welfare or unemployment. You have to fight back - he is taking food away from you and your kids so its perfectly within the rules of war to do what you can right back.
Remember, the pirate started the war and you are defending yourself. Nothing more.
So, if I find a pirate being a lazy ass living off government assistance I contact the government - like this...
Dear State Senator,
I manage a 30 year old photography business in Colorado. Both myself and the business pay our taxes and follow the rules. The business employs nine tax paying citizens but without your help many of them may lose their jobs soon.
Within the electoral district you represent there lives a party by the name of John Doe. He is a pirate - meaning he steals online photography works from companies such as mine and shares or sells them, in violation of Federal Copyright, online so others do not pay my company for the materials.
I write to you because I have information that he does this illegal activity with the assistance of you and other taxpayers in your district. He is on your local welfare program - which provides him the funds (taken from honest taxpayers) to pay for computers and internet service to conduct his illegal deeds. I can't fathom a circumstance in which a state representative such as yourself would approve of such a use of taxpayer funds or the welfare system - in particular when it will cost others to lose their jobs if not stopped.
Blah, Blah, Blah and on like that. Make sure that the letter ends stating that you are sending a copy to local media to also ask for their assistance in saving the jobs of your employees. He or she will act or the people in the office will act and the pirate will be called into the welfare office or unemployment office or probation office (lots of pirates on probation for DUI and such).
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This post has grown too long and I have things to do.... Time to go. But first... Remember these things...
Piracy can't be stopped but it can be limited. Every time it is limited it means more subscribers pay the hard working content creators / owners. Just like shoplifting at a retail store - somebody always gets away with it but the stores still do as much as they can to limit it.
The goal is not to profit from piracy. The goal is to limit piracy so you can profit from your content in the manner in which you wish to distribute it.
The pirates started this war. You have to defend yourself. You are not wrong fighting back - even if they get embarrassed, or their wife kicks them out, or they lose the unemployment checks. Its self-defense.
And being a war and self-defense means you won't be here much longer if you don't fight them harder and more aggressively then they fight to ruin you.
Jimmy
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