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You'd have to download all the content first to check it, right? If the watermark is inside the file, I mean. So the crawler would download all torrent files it could find and every file offered on irc, and then check for the watermark.
That's an awfull lot of bandwith you're gonna use. And your computer will be the single biggest "pirate" as far as the law is concerned, if it downloads everything.
I really don't see how this could be properly automated. Why not just search for the pirated content with a team of people. Like the RIAA/music industry is doing. And then sue whatever ip you can find that offers copyrighted material.
I'm not sure we could say that the music industry is winning this fight at the moment.
Besides, when you've scooped up a million people that were sharing copyrighted pdf's, what do you do then? Sue them all? The next day, if you dont stop your crawler you will have another list of a million people.
Which brings me to a question I have for Steve Jordan. Since he really wants us to explore the way China handles the internet. What do you think would be a suitable punishment for somebody who has a digital copy of one of your books, which he didn't pay for.
And what would be a suitable punishment for somebody who sends that unpaid for file to three of his friends?
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