[WARNING] WSO sellers

That might be a tough road. The black hat sites don't really care much about DCMA takedown notices.

There are much more than the one you found, I assure you. I try and track the sites down in case they have any of my client's material on there - there are more than 20 I've found, not even counting the torrent sites. Some of them hide really well and you have to use some infiltrator tactics to find them.

Some of them run full membership sites, selling every popular WSO, high-end training, plugins, software, etc..,

And the 20 I'm talking about are major operations, not including the thousands of small "sharing" sites.

Yeah i also noticed that. So bad! all the efforts shared for free

Can't really do anything...

I found one of my WSO in one of those black hat's sites too...

This is something we're constantly battling with.

Al - Send me a PM with more details and we'll see what we can do.

I know that nobody (or at least most) won't agree with me but oh well.

Fact of the matter is, the LARGE majority of people who obtain content through these channels are not your demographic anyway. These are people who would never buy your stuff but they get it for free simply because it's there and available. I'm not justifying piracy at all... I'm not a fan, but I know it well coming from a background in Indie Game Development. I've had my own content pirated and "stolen" in the past and it's annoying but I still managed to see sales regardless because my target audience was still out there making purchases.

I can't really say much except go ahead and send out those take down notices if you like. But your efforts will be much better spent reaching out to your demographics to catch those sales you intended on. And just a little note, it helps a lot more if you "play it cool" instead of rampaging around like King Kong... doing that will only make those pirates want to mess with you more and see to it your stuff gets shared all over the internet, spreading it like wildfire.

Nobody can stop these things happening because this is the internet. So, only thing you have to do is to monetizing that bad thing as well. That's calling MARKETING. Example, As somebody has said before, suppose 20 black hat websites are free distributing your WSO....... why don't you offer a killer Upsell????? This is only one idea, there're too much like this........ think as a marketer....

Include something along with your product that cant be downloaded in a pdf, such as a discussion group or something, so that anyone who has your product feels compelled to be a part of that also... but they cant if they stole the PDF. Then they will have missed out on the meat of the product, and will have to buy it if they want that.

Sadly, there are many black hat WSO dump sites out there.

In fact, there's so many of them it's a minor miracle people still buy WSOs.

It appears you probably only uncovered the more obvious and blatant ones.

There are lots of forum-based tricks that use WSO collections to trick people into joining BH forums. There are even BH FB groups and other sharing platforms.

As a product creator, I share your OUTRAGE

On a related topic:

One of the most effective ways to market a WSO (that you're promoting as an affiliate) is to create a page with the title 'WSO TITLE" + "free download" / "blackhat" etc etc One of the older tricks out there.

Of course, you're not giving away the product., you point the 'download link' to the sales page of the product. Basically, you're pimping the traffic.

The problem with this is people who are looking for free downloads are probably NOT going to convert. Regardless, I figured I'd point out this 'traffic technique' others use because it gives the impression that there are tons of download pages out there for WSOs and JVZOO/CB launches. In reality, the actual REAL download pirate pages are few compared to these FAKE pages. Still, the real pirate sites are numerous enough to warrant concern.

Most of the big launches have been promoted like this.

Another common trick is to title a blog post '(PRODUCT NAME) + SCAM / FRAUD / RIPOFF + REVIEW' the review turns out to be a positive piece promoting the product. This also works for Youtube videos.

I think you are focusing on the wrong side of your business..As long as your product is digital, there will always be ways to have your product shared..but that is just a small part of your business. You should focus on your actual clients, people that spend money to buy your products, and not those that download it for free.Because those they will not do anything anyway with the inf they get..They tend to download tens of products every day and keep them on their hard disk..So focus on your business grow it, focus on your customers.. and stop spending energy on this stuff.. This is a thing that most marketers agree once they get tired of fighting with this... me included

I had a product out for testing a few years ago and was similar to my Safe security pro I launched back in 2010, but this one had a very sneaky trick that If anyone stated to tamper with it it would in the back ground delete the HD just wished I had launched it the carnage it would have caused the BH groups .

As others have said, I don't know what we can do to stop it (we can't really.. anything digital is shared whether we like it or not -- ask any musician.) What we can do is include links in the files that lead to key information.. when someone clicks on it they have to enter an email address first. Perhaps offer some upsells on the site. Sure, most of those blackhat downloading people won't buy stuff, but maybe a few would.and you can build an email list.