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Old 08-10-2024, 07:31 PM  
Cyrano
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Originally Posted by mechanicvirus View Post
Anyone have contacts for Infringement Blocker and DMCA Watch Pro

They are sending out false DMCA notices for chaturbate models.... on a page that strictly uses a streamate API that was given permission to use.
Those companies are fake and I've been hit with them too. They don't exist and it's unclear who they're affiliated with, as outlined below.

Initially, NoWhErE and I thought Rulta might be sending out complaints under a bunch of different names. I've done a search here: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/se...rbate&sort_by=

The results contain a bunch of names that are derivative or related to Rulta, but I think they're simply hijacking the name. We have "Rulta Watch", "Rulta Sentinel", "Rulta Sentinel Pro", "Rulta Infringement Sentinel", "Rulta Blocker Guard" and "Rulta OU Cooperative Services".

I genuinely thought "Rulta OU Cooperative Services" might have been Rulta, but it doesn't appear to be. This is the description they used within their complaint.

"Rulta OU Cooperative Services have discovered the fact of illegal distribution of our client copyrighted content owned by ksensual/chaturbate, a user on Chaturbate.com webcam platform. This content was captured without authorization from https://chaturbate.com/ksensual/chaturbate. Rulta OU Cooperative Services have a good faith belief that the use of the ksensual/chaturbate copyrighted material described above is not authorized by ksensual/chaturbate, the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. The information provided in this notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, Rulta OU Cooperative Services declare that ksensual/chaturbate am the copyright owner, Rulta OU Cooperative Services authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. Rulta OU Cooperative Services request that you remove or disable access to the infringing material as soon as possible."

Meanwhile, here's a real complaint from Rulta OU: https://lumendatabase.org/notices/35976287

Description: "Adult content created on onlyfans.com"

Here's Rulta OU's massive collection of takedowns: https://transparencyreport.google.co...request_by_org

My purpose in going over all of this is to establish that, in my opinion, Rulta isn't behind these bogus takedowns. It's someone else. The different names that are being cited all belong to the same person or organization, as the descriptions are nearly identical, however it's unclear who is actually behind these.

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Originally Posted by AmeliaG View Post
I'm seeing the same thing and the DMCA notices generally reference Chaturbate models who have never even been mentioned,so it is not even a bad scraper. Not sure if they are trying to attack Chaturbate or what, but it is annoying.
I'm experiencing something similar, except in my case, the pages they're scooping up contain the performer's name. It's just text though and it's clearly automated.
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