[Volodia]

Originally Posted by author

Considering the growing number of thieves that are caught, I'm surprised if no slutz have experiences with pirate hunters?

Come on, every pirate is worth up to $150,000 per stolen song -- this can become an interesting hobby for you!

In addition to payartists.com, I have looked at these watchdogs...

BayTSP - Piracy Protection For Your Digital Assets
http://www.mediasentry.com/
How to Stop Online Music Piracy!

...but I'd still like to hear some personal experiences; services, prices, success rates, etc.

In France the police takes care of it . They arrested the people who had the biggest torrent site ( with servers abroad but they seized them too ) . Those people made hundreds of thousands euros . the greedy ones are not those Soulsensei thinks . Torrent trackers make lots of money .