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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Considering that it is very easy to find links to your content on torrent sites, and considering those torrent sites are listed on Google, why do you not actively submit DMCAs to Google to get this practice stopped?
It's a serious question, as I am thinking what it would cost to have someone write up DMCAs a couple of days a week and send them off, versus the costs of having them be a board whore or whatever. Wouldn't you make more money if a significantly higher amount of the people searching for your product actually ended up either at your site directly or going to an affiliate that is promoting you?
Discuss.
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By and large people dont hunt torrents using google. They use the big torrent sites instead. You dont need google, in fact google just slows you down.
So do you DMCA the host of the torrent site itself? You can try. But most are hosted offshore. And guess what? He's not actually hosting your content. These guys are just hosting the torrent itself which is nothing more than a pointer file. The users seeding the torrent are the ones actually hosting it, and that's usually a few hundred people scattered around the world.
Very tough to fight, and again goes to what I was saying, you're going to spend a whole lot of effort and realize very little monetary gain from it.
There are a couple of techniques to fight 'em:
1) annoy the shit out of them. lots of lawyer letters, emails, phone calls, nasty grams to their hosts, their advertisers, etc. you wont get them shutdown, but if you annoy them enough they may blacklist your stuff just to get you off their dick.
2) fire with fire..push your own torrents and just give them trailers. copy the filenames that are being shared of the real deal.
My rule of thumb though is torrent and usenet users fall into that category of "do not pay for porn". Lost cause, not worth spending effort on. Your true target audience wont figure out how to use either.