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Massive DMCA Abuse from “DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc” – Anyone Else Targeted?
Hi everyone,
I run a small adult website (https://www.mypornstarbook.net) that’s been under attack since June 25th, 2025, by an entity called DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc. They’ve submitted hundreds of DMCA takedown notices to Google targeting thousands of my URLs – mostly legal static galleries and profiles of performers. Most of the claims are completely false or vague (no specific copyrighted work listed). I’ve submitted counter-notices for every single takedown, but it’s a slow and exhausting process. So far: Over 1200 URLs removed from Google in just one week All from the same complainant Identical format in all notices (same language, pattern, timestamps) My traffic is dropping rapidly despite legal content and timely counter-notices Has anyone here been hit by the same company or tactic? I’d really appreciate: Any info about who might be behind DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc Suggestions on how to escalate (EFF, Google legal contact, etc.) Whether this kind of spam attack tends to stop or just drag on Thanks in advance. Reno |
Yep. Sent dmca for site using sponsor's own API feeds. Site hosts zero images itself and pulls everything from sponsor.
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Can I ask how long the attack lasted in your case? Did you manage to stop it somehow, or did it just burn out over time? Also, did they come back and do it again later? Curious how it turned out for you. |
Its the same people as BranditScan.
You can find their information here: https://www.registreentreprises.gouv...ts/AfficherNeq Branditscan: https://www.registreentreprises.gouv...ts/AfficherNeq When you lookup who the beneficial owners are, there is a lot of overlap with people who are related to ManyVids. I'm not saying they are involved, but there are a lot of connections. |
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Can I ask — how long did the attack last in your case? Did it eventually stop, or did they keep coming back? Did Google restore your URLs after you submitted counter notices? Would be great if you could share more about your experience. |
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Contact them directly and get whitelisted.
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Do you remember how long the DMCA attack lasted in your case? Was it just a few days, weeks, or did it go on for months? |
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But the takedown notices are still coming every day. |
Dude they hit everyone, and half the notices were for Onlyfans models that weren't the so called material they claimed.
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This attack is brutal. Since June 25th, I’ve been getting up to 70 takedown notices per day, and some of them include over 200 URLs. And it’s happening every single day without pause. |
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That’s possible — I’ve also heard it might be a black hat campaign for OnlyFans models.
But what I really need to know is: how do you defend against this? Is submitting counter notices the only option, or is there anything else that can be done? And for anyone who’s experienced this kind of attack — I mean at this level of intensity (dozens of notices per day, hundreds of URLs) — how long did it last? |
Absolute shit houses!
Been hit with thousands. Anyone any info on the company, country of jurisdiction and owner? Time to take civil action again these fraudsters |
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I had one send a very long letter saying I had full permission since like 2012 to promote their content and the model has no right to claim she owns it.. then DMCA Piracy Prevention sent another 15 DMCA's for the same company content the very next day. |
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How long did your attack last? From what I found, the company behind this — DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc. — is based in Canada. So if anyone wants to take legal action, it would probably require someone from the US or Canada to get involved. If more of us are affected, maybe we could team up and actually stand a chance. |
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I'm going to write a fully automated Python script that scrapes their galleries and site URLs, then sends DMCA notices to search engines in accordance with Afghan laws and Taliban DMCA policies. Let’s see if they like that. |
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DMCA Privacy Prevention is also BranditScan. They are based out of Montreal, Canada. I posted their info earlier: Quote:
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It's all there in the public records if you look it up. |
I have about fifty websites, I get thousands of them every day, I don't even remember when it started, almost all of them are search URLs that say "sorry we didn't find any results".
That idiot Google accepts them all, when I tried to contact them they asked me for more information. https://i.ibb.co/R4kDZPxM/Screenshot...3-22-55-31.png My sites are of various nature, galleries, videos, with only text, with content from affiliate programs, or from social networks like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit (they send me DMCAs anyway). I also get a lot of DMCA requests via email from alleged law firms, copyright companies, etc., I always remove everything, then onlyfans models, manvids, etc. contact me, pissed off with me because I removed their content from my sites and from Google. DMCA is just a tool to destroy the competition, unfortunately the only idiot who still doesn't seem to understand it, and who doesn't care, is Google. |
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I do have a list of removed URLs, numbers of any counter notifications, etc. It clearly shows that this is a targeted attack and abuse of the service. I could send that to Google as evidence. But I don't know how to contact them. If you know how to contact Google, that would be very helpful. |
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To the rest: You guys gotta understand, sometimes the performer or whoever she hired, doesn't know or doesn't check if the site is an affiliate. Also, sometimes the performer doesn't want her creatives/account name on a 3rd party site. |
I was tempted to start a thread about this. Like you, I'm receiving a large volume of takedown notices from DMCA Piracy Prevention. Branditscan is operated by the same company and they appear to be based in the Montreal area.
Notices have slowed down a bit for me, but this has definitely been stressful. It's hitting random pages based on old advertisements that Google cached, stuff of that nature. Google is letting these fuckers takedown major URLs as well. I'm worried my root domain will eventually be included in a notice. Also, Google seems to have altered their process a bit. When submitting a counter-notice, I first receive an email informing me that my counter-notice will be reviewed. After it's "reviewed" -- whatever that entails -- they then send an additional email letting me know that it's been forwarded to the complainant, who has 10 days to respond. The span of time between filing a counter-notice and the 10-day-countdown has been up to a week for me, usually 3 or 4 days. I assume others are experiencing this? Does anyone know whether a platform, such as OnlyFans, has hired them? This behavior points in that direction. That or they tweaked their bots (or developed a new one) and it's much more aggressive than before. I searched around and Branditscan seems to be popular among webcam models -- only $45 for unlimited automatic takedowns. They've been around for a while but I've never dealt with them, via DMCA Piracy Prevention, until June 25. Separately, does anyone know if Bruqi is affiliated with these guys? They use the same format in their notices and I've noticed an uptick from them as well. |
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Thanks for sharing this — I'm in exactly the same situation. The attack on my site also started on June 25, and I've received hundreds of takedown notices from DMCA Piracy Prevention since then. They're mostly targeting random outdated URLs or image galleries, sometimes with fake or misleading claim details. It's clearly automated and extremely aggressive. I'm also concerned about my root domain — some of the notices already affected important indexed pages. I'm documenting everything and considering a formal complaint, possibly with the EFF or Google Legal. By the way, according to my server logs, some kind of bot crawled through nearly my entire website on June 20, just a few days before the takedowns started. Did you notice anything similar on your end around that date? Happy to compare notes or strategies if you're interested — I think we need to push back against this abuse together. |
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This is illegal. But they keep doing it because its a flaw in the DMCA system which they exploit for financial gain. In the case of the 3 companies I mentioned, do not think for a second that it its an “oopsie” on their part. Its a systemic abuse of the system. There are a few other companies who do it on a smaller scale that I won’t mention here. But for the sake of argument, please don’t muddy the waters on the issue. If you have any websites with any form of traffic, you would instantly know how abusive these DMCA services are with Google’s system |
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I’ve had similar experiences in the past with Bruqi, but what’s happening now is on a completely different level. Since June 25, I’ve received hundreds of fake DMCA notices from DMCA Piracy Prevention. On the worst days I got 103, 74, and 61 takedowns. It’s insane. According to my server logs, a bot crawled through my entire site on June 20, just five days before the attacks started. That timing is very suspicious — it feels like someone (possibly Branditscan) rented access to DMCA Piracy Prevention’s takedown interface and loaded up a list of every URL they found. If that’s true, the attack could continue indefinitely unless Google intervenes (which is unlikely), or DMCA Piracy Prevention puts us on a blacklist. I’ve already emailed them three times at [email protected]. I actually got one reply saying: "Thank you for the report. We will be retracting and blacklisting your website. Apologies for any inconvenience." But the takedowns kept coming, so either I was never blacklisted or Google is still processing a massive backlog of their previous submissions. I just don’t know. For what it's worth, they list a phone number on their site: +1 (913) 513-2140. Maybe someone in the U.S. could call and try to get a straight answer from them. |
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I just received a second reply from [email protected]: "I can confirm that your site has now been excluded. You should not receive any new reports from now and on. Note that some submissions might be delayed." Not sure how much I can trust this, but at least they’re communicating now. Has anyone else contacted them and received a similar response? Did the DMCA notices actually stop for you after that, or did they continue? Would be helpful to compare experiences. I’d love to believe the attack is over — but I’m keeping my expectations low. |
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Notices have totally stopped for me yesterday and today. Has anyone else experienced this? |
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Keep in mind, there's multiple threads on multiple industry forums about the action taken the past month by them. So what will happen is the false DMCA's will die down for a few months and pop right back up again when no one is paying attention. Shit I would bet money this thread gets bumped in 3-6 months with people going "Hey is anyone getting a lot of DMCA's from this company again?" |
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Did you contact DMCA Piracy Prevention directly, or did the notices just stop on their own? For me, the last takedown notice came in about 27 hours ago, so I’m cautiously optimistic — but still on edge. Would be good to know if reaching out made a difference or not. |
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Apparently they're trusted partners for Google which means takedowns are almost always acted upon. If you look at the transparency report for DMCA Piracy Prevention, Google rejects almost none of their complaints. I'm wondering if perhaps this is in jeopardy due to the slew of bogus takedowns and the volume of counter-notices that have been submitted by me and others, and whether this prompted them to stop or slow down. Here's the report (https://transparencyreport.google.co...porters/360291). Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to see the pie chart of rejections, removals, etc. Quote:
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Is anyone having issues with Google responding to counter-notices in a timely manner? Their system seems to have changed such that, after filing a counter-notice, they reply with an email acknowledging receipt and stating that they'll review it. Days later they send a follow-up email notifying the sender of the counter-notice that it's been forwarded to the complainant.
I have a few counter-notices that are stuck at the first stage. For example, one counter-notice I submitted on June 26th still hasn't been forwarded to the complainant for the 10-business-day countdown and reinstatement. It's presumably sitting in their queue, I hope. Resubmitting this same counter-notice results in Google replying with an email stating that the URL is in the process of being responded to or has been responded to. Has anyone else dealt with this? Does the original counter-notice eventually get processed and forwarded to the complainaint? It's been over a week. |
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All I ever get is the first acknowledgment email: “Thanks for your counter-notice, it will be reviewed…” — and then nothing. So either Google’s processing is completely backed up, or something changed in their system and they’re no longer sending the second email in many cases. Either way, it makes it hard to know where things stand. Would be great to hear if anyone who filed a counter-notice recently actually got confirmation that the 10-day clock started. |
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I'd say about half of my counter-notices have reached the second stage (10-day countdown). There's not much of a pattern in terms of which ones are replied to and in what order, unfortunately, and that means some of my initial counter-notices are still in limbo. |
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Unfortunately, in my current case, we’re talking about around 1,300 URLs, so that’s not going to be easy to track. But I’ll try to check at least the most important ones and see what happens. |
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granted the article doesn't directly relate to the issue of no response to counter-notices, but perhaps what you're experiencing could be another aspect of the same issue? https://torrentfreak.com/googles-dmc...-volume-surge/ real pirates need to die in a fire but I wonder if some of the recent surge is due to an increase in companies employing Brandit/DMCA Piracy Protection techniques and flooding goog with false DMAs based on the use of bots? |
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I expect nothing less from a post truth society. |
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it's theft from performers in that, while the co's can and do actually remove some real piracy URLs from goog, by using bots to DMCA everything under the sun (even an embed of a live cam room on a cam aggregate aff site) they then turn around and say 'see, look how many URL's we found. might wanna try our next level of DMCA protection package'. which of course costs the performer more money it's theft from legit webmasters in terms of time cost in countering, and also the damage caused by even temporary deindexing and a ding in the SERPs fucked up situation all around. weaponized is a very good choice of word |
same here,
getting every day like 500-1000 mails with that shit already like maybe 10 days... or more |
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The attack seems to have stopped for now. I’m not sure if it’s because they stopped targeting most sites in general, or if they actually put me on their blacklist like they said they would. But if it starts up again, I’ll definitely reach out to him. Thanks again! |
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