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Originally Posted by HansTWN
In the end the point is that copyright owners do deserve some protection and some reasonable means of going after the file sharers.
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As far as I am aware they have always been able to do that, even in the pre-internet days.
This is all it takes to have links to your work removed from Google searches:
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca5...NoticeID=69125
Doesn't look very difficult to me, and could easily be automated so that you wouldn't even need to bother looking for them.
I'm not sure what good prosecuting people would do, it certainly didn't do the music industry's reputation any good when they did it, and didn't have any affect on music piracy whatsoever.
But assuming it was something you wanted to do, there are companies that will collect IP addresses for you and the means of getting the name and address of whoever is connected with that IP is getting a lot easier. Again, there are companies that will do that for you and send out letters demanding compensation for a percentage of the profits raised.
All of this was happening long before the need for any evidence of wrongdoing was removed.