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A cautionary note: APIC can shut a site down the way anyone else can - by complaining to the upstream provider. You just do a traceroute on the offending site and you can find out right away who the providers are. For example, my sites are hosted by Strictly Hosting, which has been in the adult biz for many years. But upstream a bit from them is ATT Canada. Those guys aren't in the porn biz, they're in the Internet biz. They don't care about any of their clients as much as they care about keeping their connection to the Internet. If APIC complained to strictlyhosting about something I had on one of my sites, and strictlyhosting wasn't responsive, they could keep complaining upstream until they found someone who responded. And then it would roll downhill until it got to me.
This is an interesting change for the porn biz. I've been in porn one way or the other since the late '70's, and back then it was quite common for video companies to steal competitors' loops and put them together to make their own videos. Courts wouldn't enforce the copyright because they didn't (and still don't) have any interest in protecting porn producers. Even today, if I found some footage from a video I made on somebody else's tape I probably wouldn't have any recourse. But if I found my pix on somebody else's site I actually have a way to do something about it now.
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