As much as I feel for all who have had images lifted, I think the administration have  done fairly well in responding in the past.
That is when it is brought to attention.
This happened before while I was a moderator, and Stacey was always involved with it on the  upper end. The mods do the main reporting back in their forums.
As long as there is internet this will happen. I doubt this site would survive if they had to have satff monitoring  the www for all stolen images from here.
It is like asking why do people break windows or steal cars. It's going to happen...governments can't control it either.

 More to note that it is also the same offence to copy and paste emails or personal messages. The same goes for  taking a screen capture of this site with my image on it and posting it in a forum elsewhere.
Can you imagine....some of these very members who want their work protected, yet do it themselves.The irony of it. I think they should be dealt with the same as staff  are  right now dealing with this issue.

But as Gradient said, and  I  have before,

Quote - This brings us right back to what I have been saying for some time here.....if you post anything...it will likely get stolen.  And that will continue to happen unless you make it more difficult.

This is so correct.

I know we all would like our images to look as good as we can, but the only real way to stop it is to write your name over the middle of the image and perhaps in other places.
There is also ways to script images that when a thumb is clicked to enlarge, and other click on the image closes it. This makes it only available to a screen capture, therefore making a certain population  unable to save it as.
The ones who will get it know the ways around it.
There could be stricter enforcement of first time offenders caught within the site posting copyright images.They may get some of the offenders, but as they are,another is just around the corner.
 @kjpweb.. yeah...I agree , this is epidemic and  perhaps there should be some meetings held to try and come up with some strategies.Because it is nice to have a community site to share artwork at.
 But it is almost like asking the police to go investigate someone who steals the car stereo. In this city it ain't gonna happen.

I won't be around this planet long enough to spend too much time worrying if someone grabbed an image from me.But if I ever change that train of thought, then silent and vigilant is the way.

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."