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.

Thanks for the reply.

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.

Counter DMCA them relentlessly. This bot dmca service is shit. I'm about to open topic about same issue and DDF Busty

Thanks, appreciate your reply. I'm also countering every takedown they send — sometimes over 100 URLs per day. They mostly target gallery pages, even though they contain only legal screenshots and official links.

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.

Yes they did. These people never reply to counter dmca. In my experience 90% of it is bot generated over content they don't own or they gave it out as promo. DDF Busty is dmcaing me right now over an image the model shot for her own personal site. She also did shots for Scores.. So I would imagine they are sending dmca to them as well.

Contact them directly and get whitelisted.

Thanks for the info — sounds very familiar.

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?

I did contact them directly — they replied and said they would stop.
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.

Yeah, I’ve received fake DMCA notices in the past too — but this is something completely different.

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.

Some are saying it's a black hat operation for onlyfans models.

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

No idea, I had 6 different paysite owners CCed on these false claims and even they cant stop it.

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.

I totally understand how you feel — I'm going through something very similar right now. I'm getting hit with dozens of takedown notices every day since June 25, and it doesn't seem to stop.

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.

What are the URLs of the companies filing this crap?
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.

They are pretty easy to find.

DMCA Privacy Prevention is also BranditScan. They are based out of Montreal, Canada. I posted their info earlier:

Just enter "DMCA Piracy" and "BranditScan" into the search boxes for more info.

If you look at the beneficial owners, its the same group of people and always includes: "Jean-Noël Sciretta". When you Google his name, "Gino Sciretta" comes up as the results. He claimes to be the CEO of Branditscan and Ex-Founder of ManyVids.

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.

Can I ask how you contacted Google? Did a live person respond to you?

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.

Yeah man, that happens, sounds like the Agency employee submitted that link to OF, therefor OF added it to the Dashboard for reporting..

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.

I might be able to point you in the right direction man. I'm not affiliated with Branditscan but Hit me up with details of the notices. (I've been in the biz since 2000)

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.

FYI, DMCA Privacy Prevention, Bruqi, Rulta etc 100% knowingly send fake DMCAs to affiliate content. Their system is 100% automated to target ANY url with a performer’s name or variation of their name.

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

You're absolutely right — this is systemic abuse, no doubt about it.

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.

Update:

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.

Does this seem to be working?

Notices have totally stopped for me yesterday and today. Has anyone else experienced this?

I think they stopped for the majority of people, whether they contacted DMCA Piracy Prevention or not.

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?"

That’s great to hear — sounds like the flood may be slowing down.

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.

Okay interesting -- I didn't realize so many people were impacted. I had never received a takedown notice from Branditscan/DMCA PP until June 25th, which makes the whole situation even stranger.

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.

I did not contact them, which makes this even more surprising. So far so good. Like you though, my optimism is cautious.

When they get pissed off with you, send them straight back to their own dmca agent that they think does an amazing job for them :thumbsup:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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.

You’re definitely not alone — I’ve submitted hundreds of counter-notices in the past 10 days, and not a single one has reached the stage where Google sends the follow-up email saying it’s been forwarded to the complainant.

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.

Yeah it's definitely a pain.

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.

In my experience, there have been many times in the past where I never got that second email from Google, but they still reinstated the URLs. You usually have to wait 14 days to 3 weeks, and then manually check if the pages are back in the search results.

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.

someone on another board linked to an article about the goog DMCA reporting system being completely backed up, though apparently this has been an issue since April

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?

DMCA is so weaponized now that pirates and actual webmasters are lumped in the same venn diagram according to talent.

I expect nothing less from a post truth society.

I suspect a lot of performers don't realize how bad some of these companies are. the co's gain legitimacy going to the shows, they get performers to talk about how great they are, meanwhile they are stealing from both performers and legit webmasters

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