LOL!! "Share your thoughts for non-profit?" .... Then why would you care if someone made mirror copies of your sites? The more sites copying your work, the better chance someone will read your thoughts. And why do you have posts complaining about how little money your sites are generating, not how many people are reading your "thoughts"? You crack me up with your poor attempt at justification for stealing something that doesn't belong to you. "Do you use any of these file sharing sites yourself?" No.
Because I don't care if I make money, but I would like to. I bet there's sites that "share" or "have stole" (however you want to view it) my articles. I could care less for the most part, but mirror sites hurt you completely since it's the entire site. You also fail to make it clear because music and video can't be crawled by Google or search engines, so they don't have to worry about duplicate content clip for clip (at least not at this point). I am not justifying the stealing of anything though. I am just saying that it's "sharing" for the most part. I don't listen to main stream music and all my music comes from lower level bands who would love to give me a taste of their music. Why don't you use these sites?
I'm not saying it's alright, but I view it at more an online revolution especially with domain name infringement. You know hackers/crackers are the people who actually build internet security. The more you change the something the better it gets. I mean look at napster. That was the best thing that ever happened. It created a huge online revolution and it changed the way we bought music. No one wanted to pay $15 for one 1 or 2 songs on cd's, so they started stealing music. Now you can buy songs for 99 cents rather than a song for $15. If you want to even go into history look at the Americans. We were are built on rebels and murders. The native Americans were slaughtered to the point of near extinction. That was not alright to just do to take someones land, but you seem to not care about that or else you wouldn't be living here. Shit happens but it changes the way something is built. You can deny our history all you want, but radicals change something for the better sometimes and many people get hurt. The native Americans helped to create interbreeding cultures since many of them had no other option. I don't care how you look at it George Washington and them were radicals, but they had no option since England taught them to show greed and hatred. They wanted to control everything in England, but George Washington wanted his freedoms for the people. Were the rebels of the internet society changing the game to create a better internet. I don't do it with music by supporting sites like Youtube. I do it other ways by showing my support to people who do it.
Google Youtube or anyone who uses the web for the matter need to get all the takedowns and notifications sent to them. They are contributing to it by using said Search engine or brower. I really think it's the brower to blame since they load said sites. Lets just sue everyone into a blackhole.