DMCA and when they don’t comply, I have sent a DMCA subpoeana to get their info,
I’ve also tried things like getting their discord servers taken down, going after individual uploaders (some are way too easy to find) and dig until I find the fuckers who run these sites.
Sometimes I go to their advertisers too and the hosting companies. Loved seeing one site owner complain about having to move hosting companies.
Doesn’t always work but I’m like a dog w a bone when some of these sites piss me the fuck off. I’ll become such a pain in their ass they blacklist me.
There’s one particular site that’s killing me right now … and I haven’t cracked it yet. Yet.
I do notice though that we get traffic from these sites, though it’s hard to tell how much is paying traffic. Honestly it’s just the principle of the matter for me. I can say that early leaks on niche bigger releases where I have a higher overhead can seriously hurt my profit margin.