ive been saying this for years: i think a much better approach to counteracting piracy is to offer your customers a quality product backed up by excellent customer service. it builds customer satisfaction and loyalty, and customers will want to buy your products.

the entire 'my product has been downloaded 10,000 times, sells for $15, so i have lost $150,000 in revenue' is an idiotic fallacy because it assumes that each of those people would have actually rushed to the store and purchased your product had it not been available as warez.

if you have a week to spare, you will do better in both the short and long term to spend that week making a free update for one of your products to make your existing customers happy than you would spending it filing rapidshare copyright infringement notices, especially considering that it takes you 10x as long to file one than it does for them to just reupload it anonymously.