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Paul,
I use to deputize buyers at phoenix and have them report suspicious use to me ... they were happy to do it not only bc they were paying, but also i would award them a set, or something corresponding to the size of the theft once i busted the theif.
its a long time consuming pain in the nuts to chase down theifs, but 99% of the time it was the hosts that gave me the most help. I simply showed my site and asked them to have their hosting client provide a license (which if they were stealing they couldnt do...)
ive had hosts that wrote scripts deleting every jpg from a clients server (of course after warnings) ...
i spent way too much time on this tho ... gotta get some interested webmasters deputized, then you just have a standard email you send out to the host/ affiliates/ suspected thief, be careful, sometimes they are legit without having notified you of the use of a domain (in which case i say please send me all domains you are using!)
anyhow, the host will help more than anyone else 99% of the time. I never saw an affiliate program that gave a shit. (at least they never replied to my emails ...)
youll still get robbed but you would be amazed at how many webmasters will send you urls to check out - i had a couple that had a knack for spotting stolen content, the urls they sent me were 90% of the time unlicensed use. and they appreciated the fact as customers that i did something to justify their payment for the license whereas others were just robbing.
good luck mate,
Mikey
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