This is sort of correct. What this method does is not 'pulling down' a site - its asking for certain files to be removed. While ISPs are,as you rightly point out, legally responsible to their customers you will find that 99% of ISPs in western countries have provisions in the contract with their customers that the customer will not host content they do not have rights to (usually contained in the 'Acceptable use policy'/'AUP'). Most ISPs will work with their customers to resolve the issues you raise without needing to use the sledgehammer blow of pulling a site.



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Where the advice above is great and does work to an extent in my experience your fighting a loosing battle.

I sell video tutorials on music production as my main livelihood and it never takes long for them to appear on the big warez sites and lots of the small ones.

I have battled with the sites to make them take down my stuff (and most of them have especially with the DMCA) but when they take it down another user puts it up.

I have seen me spending more time contacting these sites than actually working, by then its counter productive and a waste of my time.

My advice is this: If you have a digital product for sale and you have a forecast of say 100 sales in 3 months. Have a run up to the release date with teasers etc for about a month (2 weeks min) then when it comes to relase date people have their hands in their pockets gagging to buy so you aim to have your 100 sales in 1 month then if it gets warezed it makes no difference to you.

Also for the baove to work you need to have a greta marketign stratedgy and SEO.

hope this helps someone,

Mark

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You also have the added benefit that servers IP/s located outside of the USA may be owned by a USA parent company so they tend to respond to DMCA takedowns. I have in the past had fasthosts in the UK respond to USA style DMCA takedowns. the problem is 1/5 price from beatport juno, etc.

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