Looking for ideas

[ericgtr]

When I first started my site about guitars I had a few forums up for sharing your own personal music, etc. One of the things that I had always found to be difficult was finding backing tracks to play guitar over, so I opened up a forum for it so people could post them. That section of my site took off like a rocket, it brought in tons of members and boosted the overall site by a ton.

I eventually created a forum for unlimited backing tracks where users got more space to upload and when they uploaded to this forum, it didn't count against their personal space. I had a mod for that at UBBT but since moving over to VB I haven't been able to get any help with that, not even from offering to pay for it but that's another story.

Since not being able to make this modification I really can't charge for that forum anymore because they can remove their attachments so I moved all of the posts out into a free forum for all to access. The problem I am now facing is that other people are creating sites just like mine and robbing our backing tracks, a lot of which are created custom by our members, and posting them on their forums.

Posting backing tracks to forums never happened before I started it and I am feeling robbed as are the creators of the backing tracks. So what I did to help prevent easy theft of backing tracks was add a promotion so that a user must have 10 posts and be registered for at least one day before being able to gain access. Of course, this is causing spam which I fully expected.

Basically, I feel like I can't win in this situation lol. I want to try to prevent the easy downloading of lurkers for their sites yet not have my board spammed up.