Fradulent DMCA's from DMCA Piracy Prevention
 

While we are all busy enjoying Xmas, opening presents & eating casseroles, DMCA Privacy Prevention was busy sending out fraudulent DMCA's hoping they could help their clients delist legal content from Google to help their client rankings (what other reason would there before sending their massive amounts of fraud DMCA's for legal licensed contents).

The frauds that run DMCA Privacy Prevention and/or the clients that hire them should be ashamed at what their business has become.

To anyone receiving these, make sure you always file counter-DMCA's, I believe someday Google will do what's right and ban/block/destroy companies that thrive on fraudulent activity like this.

Merry Xmas to you all, aside from anyone who does business with, works for, or runs DMCA Privacy Prevention Inc.

What are they getting you on? Chaturbate API?

They're filing fraudulent DMCA's regarding old legal paysite content, from sponsor sites like Brazzers, EvilAngel, Bangbros, etc, they say the original urls are X, Instagram, Onlyfans etc.

DMCA Piracy Prevention is the worst of all similar companies. About six months ago, they sent me up to 100 fraudulent DMCA notices a day for 10 days straight. In total, they managed to remove about 1,300 URLs from Google, including those with the highest traffic. It was a nightmare. I lost a third of my traffic.

I contacted them several times and asked them to stop. Finally, I got a response from them saying that they would put me on their blacklist. I don't know if they really did, but it stopped after ten days.

Of course, I sent counter-notices to all of their DMCA notices. Just filling out all the forms every day took me an hour or two.

It took four months for Google to respond and gradually start returning the URLs to the search results. I had given up hope. I did a 301 redirect for the most important URLs to get them back into Google.

It's been half a year now, but every day I'm afraid it will start again. They are capable of destroying any website that has traffic from Google. It doesn't matter how big your website is. They are capable of sending DMCA notices with 200 URLs a day or even more.

Google won't do anything about it. I wrote them several emails and filled out several of their contact forms before I finally got a response. They said it's their policy to remove URLs after they receive a DMCA complaint. They told me to file a counter-notification and they might return the URLs to the results.

The only thing I've noticed is that Google now responds much faster to counter-notices. It no longer takes four months, but maybe two days.

A few more things.

There's no way to defend against it. They use a script to download all URLs for a specific website directly from Google results. It's not complicated. Then they send a DMCA and don't even bother to check if there is any content on those URLs. The DMCA contained URLs to pages that were on the first page of Google, as well as URLs that had no traffic or were even redirected, but were simply indexed by Google.

The worst part is that it all happens automatically. Everything is handled by a computer. They send DMCA notices 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No one at Google checks their DMCA complaints. A DMCA notice arrives and the URL is automatically deleted from Google. I don't know how they got that status. With other companies, Google at least verifies the formalities. Or it has happened to me that I received a DMCA notice and a few hours later an email from Google saying that they had checked it, recognized it as an unjustified complaint, and returned the URL to the results themselves. And usually, Google doesn't send complaints from other companies right away. The claim date is a few days ago. But with DMCA Piracy Prevention, those notices come in real time. Easily 50 per hour. Before you can fill out one counter-notice, you'll get 20 more DMCA notices.

There are other companies like Bruqi, Leak Cleaner, Traqeer, but none of them are as bad as DMCA Piracy Prevention.

I counter them automatically using AI, costs me like $30 per 100 counter notices. It's not perfect but it helps keep them at bay during periods when getting hit hard.

Don't mind sharing my solution, it's not advanced, not even that good but it kinds of works. Lets see if I get around to making a thread about it. Surely someone could make it much better.

I do not get it.They are taking down YOUR ORIGINALLY created content? Or likely pirated ( oops sorry ) I mean " user submitted" content to a tube? :2 cents:

I use an old program caleld TypeItIn so I don't have to write the same stuff all the time..
probably better tools for this but that's the one I've always used :upsidedow

I'm talking about sponsor provided licensed content.

This is what happens:

1. a content producer produces legally licensed content of models to go on paysite/sponsor sites.

2. affiliates promote sponsor sites with that content

3. years pass, the models open their onlyfans/manyvids and work for themselves

4. the models (maybe urged by DMCA services) want to knockout all their old content and all competitors to boost their own OF/MV rankings by DMCA'ing affiliate contents and have their licensed & legal contents removed from Google

This is fraud by the DMCA services and by those who pay them to do it.

You have to CC every paysite contact you have with these DMCA emails.

You will also have to face completely false DMCA companies with zero contact such as:

Leak Cleaner
CopyArmor
DMCA.Red
Self titled "dmca" on the form that is clearly not an agency

These automated DMCA companies are THE WORST. So many fucking false DMCA's it's out of hand.

If it's really sponsor provided content it's likely that you are not whitelisted by those sevices, when I use it can whitelist pages where I know they have trailers of my stuff. The DMCAs are automated now and everything that triggers the keywords gets DMCA.

If only they used some type of fingerprinting, but they just target search strings.

And with the millions of aspiring models, some names are pretty generic and can fit into many other names or even general niches / descriptions. Extreme example, call yourself Anna and then let these bots loose on your "trademark", but that's basically what's happening.

Getting borderline annoying.

Most of those services don't give a fuck about being whitelisted. Let's say you are right and he's posting sponsored content. Then that content is owned by the sponsor. So why is the person in the scene DMCA'ing it?

Because they don't own the content.

99% of these DMCA companies out there suck dick and send out THOUSANDS of false take down requests every single week.

RE : 1) :thumbsup 2) :thumbsup 3) OK it happens 4) That is the problem, the content is everywhere and EVERYBODY lost track of the paperwork. MY guess you complaint is legit , but how do you prove it? That, I believe is the crux of the issue.

These services only send smth when it's ordered by someone, they don't move a finger without payment.

If the DMCA is about actress then it's likely an actress (or her agency) which now does OF and wants to get rid of her former content for 3rd parties. This would be fraud.

If DMCAs are about labels it's likely the label which wants to remove pirated content, but the person in charge possibly doesnt know about all the sponsor sites. This would be unintentional collateral damage.

Here's a fun situation. I got a DMCA for a model, so naturally I contact my affiliate manager and double check that everything is cool to promote. They say yes, so I continue onward, submit a counter notice and go about my day.

Alright a few days later, different DMCA, same URL, same model. This continues for a week straight, after every counter notice. Ok, "Hey do I still have permission or what? This DMCA agency says otherwise". "You most definitely have permission".

Ok great, so uh.. who is putting the "hit out" so to speak? Clearly a model or agency. So what happens when I reply back.. "Ok, well it seems this model or agency doesn't want my website, an affiliate promoting your company to exist on Google for her name or terms through your paysite."

"I'm sorry to hear that, tell us what we can do".

Never know how to answer. Go after the model? Cool then she doesn't work for them anymore.

Go after agency? Not a single paysite really does this beyond an angry email and a promise of being whitelisted, and good luck if the agency doesn't respond to anyone.

Fun shit.

It sure is. You'd think at some point Google would care to remove all the frauds who're abusing their system. They did it with cleaning up duplicate text content, inbound link manipulations, you'd think at some point they'd remove, penalize or ban these companies who are using fraud to manipulate their rankings like this.

I've tried contacting companies like DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc., they don't respond. :helpme

It should be pretty clear when their DMCA's are countered successfully, should be a strike against those who filed the complaint. Seems Google dgaf at all and are supporting the fraudsters.

Will begin CC'ing paysite/sponsors. Good tip, thanks. :thumbsup

Tons of the DMCA's I have gotten show Onlyfans as the original content source while they're reporting my posts/content that were published before 2016. Onlyfans was created after that. Absolute fraud. Their deceit is 100% deliberate.

The only thing that is going to stop fraudulent DMCAs is when a group of affiliates/programs join together, pool their resources and file a lawsuit. Or at least put the worst agents and models on notice that they will be sued if it continues.

The DMCA agents are making bank. The models are doing it on purpose to remove competing content. Google doesnt care.

Most of the models dont even understand why this is fraudulent. And the DMCA agencies just send the notices without ever having a human review one.

The only thing that is going to cause the models and DMCA agents to change their behavior is when they have to spend money on a lawyer.

It doesnt have to be me... but it should be someone who understands the adult business.

Otherwise, keep sending counternotices.

Take legal action and sue them for damage. I'm always surprised how much shit most people in this biz take and avoid legal action.

Oh I forgot to post this link to an article I wrote 2 years ago...

https://adultbizlaw.com/2023/03/20/a...edown-notices/

Most notices (lumen/google) display a name that can't be tracked back to an entity to file a claim against, and even if they do offer some form of alias that you could connect to an entity they could simply claim they did not file the notice as defence resulting in more time and money down the shitter.

I'm very close to considering this with Leak Cleaner, I really really want discovery on that one to see who they are.

Thanks Michael, I appreciate your information on this matter, you are always helpful.

Just so you know, BranditScan are the same company, try contacting them about DMCA Piracy Prevention notices.

Hah I used that tool for years also. I had chat gtp code me some copy and paste tools in PHP so I can do stuff from my phone using browser.

I'm dealing with this shit too now. They don't even bother looking at your site/pages. From the GSC dumps to big query I did manage to get my hands on their super duper AI deep scanning technology though:

That's DMCA Piracy Prevention and if its BranditScan maybe you'd get a response from them. I think the Estonia guys wouldn't even respond.

It's getting really out of hand. One of the worst for me lately is Ricky Johnson. I don't even want to fucking post his press releases anymore knowing I'm going to get a DMCA take down notice for it because of the rando girl in the scene. It's getting so fucking old.

Isn't Ricky Johnson always at industry events? Guess it's time for a guerilla interview like how Leno did but with DMCA notices.

Who dafuq Ricky J?

This is a new one for me:

You don't say. :321GFY

It's not even really him doing it. It's the girls he is doing collabs with. He does so many with these content creator girls and they are just fucking nightmares with their fake ass DMCA's

If what happened over the past week on X is any indication of whats going to happen in the near future with AI...

Creators will also need to start sending C&Ds to people who are using their photos and making AI versions of them, in different posses, different clothing, in different locations... ect

Since copyright doesnt attach to AI created content (yet) DMCA wont cover those photos but I suspect that the DMCA services wont tell them that and just take their money anyway...

And there will be even a greater of a flood of false DMCAs being delivered by these bullshit DMCA companies.

In that case you have to CC the paysite contact, DMCA agency, model and go "Who really owns this content?"

The ensuing emails are always fun.

It is my impression most models do not understand US copyright law or DMCA or what these laws and regulations are intended to protect.

Any agency who has decided sending DMCA notices is their job should know the law and should definitely stop sending notices when notified the content is legal.

But these agencies are a scourge on our industry and they do keep sending notices they are aware are false. And they will probably keep doing it until somebody successfully sues them.

You're absolutely correct on the first part. In fact I had a conversation the other day with an Onlyfans agencies that I promote through. I got a message about this new model added to dashboard, "go promote her, big money!". I was like ok nice, she's hot, let's do this.

4 days later I got a DMCA for her content, I went to the agency and go "Uh?? What's going on, you tell me to promote her and then this shit happens?" and get a "SO SORRY, the model didn't understand DMCA, she just sends them out".

It's actually wild that most of the porn industry could be taken down by the talent. The very talent that this industry literally exists on because without talent, no content. But you put up content and talent goes "no way, I only want it promoted MY way". Total clusterfuck.

As far as the last part, I've had a few paysite contacts float the idea, but yea it's costly.