Image Hosts Ignoring DMCA
 

chronos.to

I have seen large numbers of threads with our content on there on a forum, threads with full galleries with the image thumbs linking to chronos.to

I have sat there an copied each of the 150 or so images and sent an DMCA email with the links to the images we want removing to: [email protected]

2 Weeks go by and I have no reply and the images are still on the threads and not been removed, so i send the email and 2 weeks later still nothing. Monday i sent an email to their General Inquiries [email protected] to get intouch so i can send a shed load of links for them to remove as they are hosted illegally and to my suprise ive had no reply.

Can anyone recommend anything?, we have a Muso account but they say they only take down the .zip/.rar files and streaming videos NOT images from servers, which is pretty lame.

Make sure you send a proper dmca notice.

chronos.to/dmca.html

This is what i have:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

To whom it may concern,

I am acting on behalf of Company Name. whose copyrighted
material recently appeared on your file sharing service available for
download publicly with no compensation offered to Company Name.
I can be reached as Name ***** ****, address*********, email: ***@*****, *Phone:*********

Copyrighted work belonging to Company Name has been infringed,
including image and video production films featuring various performers created by
Company Name over a period of several months and including (but
not limited to) the following:

Multiple Copyrighted Works Belonging to
Domain Name Registration and Web Hosting | Domain.com


These copyrighted works are currently being offered for download on your
site through the following URLs:
http://www.ListOfLinksToContent.com/

I would like to request that you please immediately remove these links
and the associated files from your server(s) because the listings
facilitate piracy in violation of the DMCA. I have a good faith belief
that use of the aforementioned material is not authorized by the
copyright owner Company Name its agents, or the law. I certify
by my electronic signature below that the information in this notice is
accurate, under penalty of perjury. Thank you in advance for your prompt
action on this notice of infringement. Respectfully submitted this
18/02/2016 in London, UK, via electronic mail.

Sincerely, and thank you in advance for complying with the DMCA.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Do you think there is anything missing?

It appears that their nameservers point to cloudflare so report it to cloudflare.

Abuse form | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company

Note that the form only allows for 10 urls at a time.

.

Thanks, will do a submit now. 10 links at a time, dont like to make things easy do they.

They are also asking for
Registration number, A federal or international trademark registration number is required
and
Registration office, The agency you registered your trademark with.

Have to leave these blank as i do not have this info.

Thank you for reporting a suspected violation of our Terms of Service.


Please be assured that we document and investigate every report, and will take
appropriate enforcement action. This may be the only response you receive regarding
your report. Due to the large volume of reports we receive, it is not possible for
us to send a personal response to every report.


When reporting security incidents, please include source and destination addresses
with ports in plain text format and accurate time stamps.


CloudFlare offers network service solutions including a reverse proxy, pass-through
security service and a content distribution network (CDN). CloudFlare is not a
hosting provider, and we do not have access to our customer's content.


Our Terms of Service is located here: CloudFlare terms of use | CloudFlare | The web performance & security company


Thank you for using CloudFlare.


The CloudFlare Team

Are there ANY adult image hosts that have legit (ie. the poster has permission to post) images? My guess that every single image on every single image host has been stolen. Am I wrong to assume that?

You are most probably right ravo, only thing we can do is send DMCA to what we find, which unfortunately is a drop in the ocean to whats actually out there being posted!

Do a whois, and DMCA the web host, the Registrar, and every hop along the route.

GoDaddy usually replies that they have nothing to do with Domains, BUT, CC'ing GoDaddy along with the others, often gets a site to respond.

chronos.to hosts with cloudflare.com - and you'll need to whois above them:

CLOUDFLARE.COM.INNOVATIONSMALL.COM

Domain Name: INNOVATIONSMALL.COM
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, LLC
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 146
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Name Server: IVY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: NORM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

Domain Name: INNOVATIONSMALL.COM
Registry Domain ID: 1707905459_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Update Date: 2015-03-11T04:01:09Z
Creation Date: 2012-03-19T16:00:57Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2016-03-19T16:00:57Z
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Charles John Bhaskar
Registrant Organization: Alpha & Omega consultants
Registrant Street: 5/3, Fourth Street, Chowdry Nagar
Registrant Street: Valasaravakkam
Registrant City: Chennai
Registrant State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Registrant Postal Code: 600087
Registrant Country: IN
Registrant Phone: +91.9840336320
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registry Admin ID: Not Available From Registry
Admin Name: Charles Bhaskar
Admin Organization: Alpha & Omega Consultants
Admin Street: 5/3,Fourth Street,
Admin Street: Valasaravakkam,
Admin City: Chennai
Admin State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Admin Postal Code: 600087
Admin Country: IN
Admin Phone: +91.04424861568
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax: +91.04424861568
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: Not Available From Registry
Tech Name: Charles Bhaskar
Tech Organization: Alpha & Omega Consultants
Tech Street: 5/3,Fourth Street,
Tech Street: Valasaravakkam,
Tech City: Chennai
Tech State/Province: Tamil Nadu
Tech Postal Code: 600087
Tech Country: IN
Tech Phone: +91.04424861568
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax: +91.04424861568
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: IVY.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM
Name Server: NORM.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM

You can also file a request with Lumen (chilling effects) to get them removed from Google, etc.

I filled in the form that sarettah sent and i got this reply to CloudFlare, so i grabbed the email from this reply and sent all the thread images (instead of the 10) in previous email, so will see if they get back to me:

CloudFlare received your trademark infringement complaint regarding:
chronos.to

Please be aware CloudFlare is a network provider offering a reverse proxy,
pass-through security service. We are not a hosting provider. CloudFlare does not
control the content of our customers.

Accepted URL(s) on chronos.to:
http://chronos.to/**********

Hosting Provider:
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SC-QUASI79

Abuse Contact:
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[email protected]



We have notified our customer of your complaint, and we have forwarded your
complaint on to the responsible hosting provider. You may also direct your report
to:

1. The provider where chronos.to is hosted (provided above);
2. The owner listed in the WHOIS record for chronos.to and/or;
3. The contact listed on the chronos.to site.

Note: A lookup of the IP for a CloudFlare customer website will show CloudFlare IPs
because we are a pass-through network. The actual website is still hosted at the
hosting provider indicated above. If the hosting provider has any questions, please
have the hosting provider contact us directly regarding this site. Due to attempted
abuse of our complaint reporting process, we will only provide the IP of chronos.to
to the responsible hosting provider if they contact us directly at
[email protected].

Regards,

CloudFlare Abuse

Thanks NickBaer, We can remove google listings from our Muso.com account also. Will bookmark Lumen though.

What about sending a real letter instead of an e-mail, as that is less likely to get ignored.

Send ONE e-mail, with CCs to all parties - site, hosts, registrars. CC's, not BCC's, not individual e-mails. Or even TO's themselves. One e-mail, all parties visible addresses. Gets most offenders to sit up and pay attention.

AWS has been particularly responsive to me, when I see in WHOIS that AWS is the host. Amazon Web Services.

Good going GlamorIdols.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

All in the same TO: line!!

Get those Indian bandits when they come home from the Call Center, where they sit on the phone and lie to Americans all night - our day - long.

Here's other Fun With LINUX things you can do. On Mac it is real easy, just open Terminal. I think Windows has something similar. Or you can try just with a web browser.

This is with "Terminal":


traceroute chronos.to
traceroute: Warning: chronos.to has multiple addresses; using 104.28.19.14
...


or nslookup chronos.to

Name: chronos.to
Address: 104.28.19.14



whois 104.28.19.14

OrgName: CloudFlare, Inc.
OrgId: CLOUD14
Address: 101 Townsend Street
City: San Francisco
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94107
Country: US
RegDate: 2010-07-09
Updated: 2015-10-08
Comment: CloudFlare - The web performance & security company
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/CLOUD14

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE2916-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse
OrgAbusePhone: +1-650-319-8930
OrgAbuseEmail: [email protected]
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/ABUSE2916-ARIN



CloudFlare has been nice to you, BUT others might not be as nice. Nonetheless, this is what you could have found doing nslookup and whois resulting in CloudFlare..

Forward your email with Indian address to Cyber Crime India (Chennai) and you will see thst owner will remove the images within next 24 hours

Ouch, Good luck with getting Ecatel (or Quasi) to remove anything :2 cents: they are a notorious host for cyber crime and ignoring copyrights. Since Ecatel is in NL, DMCA laws do not apply so it might help if followed the Dutch Notice and Takedown procedure.

Anyways, hope you're able to get the content removed.

Thanks, will look into this

Can not for the life of me find the DMCA contact for these: Free Picture Hosting - PicState.com

Anybody know a way to get intouch to send DMCA Notices to? ta

Try the contacts mentioned on the whois information:
who.is/whois/picstate.com