It sucks!
I sent a DMCA notice to Cavecreek hosting company yesterday as one of their clients has ignored three different methods of contacting them to remove links to our content from one of their forums.
Cavecreeks dmca representative responded to my usual dmca email with a request to re-send my notice as a physical signed document via fax or scanned email, or via their own docusign form.
How many people have encountered this kind of practice before?
I've sent hundreds of dmca emails before to file lockers and file sharing forums and never had a problem with my usual offial dmca email before.
Now, I get a response from what I thought would be a responsible host asking me to jump though hoops to get links to our content removed from their servers! I thought it was only file sharing sites that made things difficult for legitimate copyright owners.
The particular offending site is Femaledom.com who are a paysite themselves and I would have expected better from. Yet, if you look at one of their forums such as
http://www.femaledom.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=81 you will see links like:
Ballbusting Chicks -Not As Expected
BustedBalls.co.uk SiteRip
Brat Princess - Madison - Relentless Ball Kicking
Kinky Kicks -Party Poppers
All of the above are clearly file sharing posts which surely any respectable host would see and act on don't you think?
Cavecreek are partners of CCBill and the latter are possibly losing money by enforcing these stringent requirements in my opinion.
I certainly wouldn't touch Cavecreek for hosting now at any time in the future even if they offered it for free!!!
The actual file lockers have deleted our content now two days after our official dmca, but I'm pursuing the remaining links out of principal that a so called pay site is turning a blind eye to piracy on their site.
Femdom webmasters I would certainly take a look at the forum of femaledom.com and see if your content is also being shared there.