Hi JCS. I am a forum member with recent posts about fighting piracy, who composes and performs Brazilian jazz.

With some great advice from Bob (rharv) I was able to slow the bleeding to a trickle. If the numbers of some of these illegal sharing websites are to be believed, there have been well over a hundred thousand illegal downloads of my CD in the last few months. I'm glad if I'm that popular, but I wish I had a few bucks from each of those downloads.

Most of the illegal downloading was linked back to two websites, and they cooperated by removing the multiple copies of my CD from their sites when confronted with a properly-formed complaint from the copyright holder. It took me a long time to find all the copies in various places on each site, and I had to identify every one to the website before they would blow it away. The dozens of websites that still advertise my CD for free all link to those two 'master' sharing sites, who now show a message saying the music was removed due to a copyright violation. I appreciate that the websites are willing to teach those who illegally upload that it is a copyright violation; it's just unfortunate that they look the other way until there is a complaint. I'm willing to bet many artists do not know the extent of illegal activity, as I did not.

Monday was the first day that I could find no instances of illegal copies of my CD on the Internet, after a month of effort.

Thanks for asking.

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