I am fucking pissed.
XHamster de-activated my Creator Account for Claudia Marie a couple of months back saying that I needed to hand them all of my 2257 documents. I refused that and said "fine".
I took down all of our content.
Then immediately people started uploading our stuff.
I sent them DMCA every week about it and they removed the content. I let them know that I found it very strange that other people could upload my content but I can't without giving them my 2257 docs!
But, all was "good" until Saturday June 26th.
I again found dozens and dozens of our videos from our members area.
So I went to their form at
https://xhamster.com/info/dmca like I had already done several times before.
But this time instead of taking my content down I got this email:
"Cherry xHamster
Staff - 26.06.2021 14:21
Hi,
Thanks for your email.
Do all of these videos belong to you ?
Please provide ID for them
Kind regards,
Cherry
xHamster Team"
I was in shock. They are asking me for the 2257 documents to take my content down???? WHAT THE FUCK!!!
So I tried again today (Sunday June 27th)
Went to the form and meticulously copied the links to all my content that is now unauthorized on Xhamster.
Here is the reply this evening:
Lazl xHamster
Staff - 28.06.2021 09:05
Hello, thanks for your message.
Prior to uploading videos to the website, people that have uploaded them are clicking on the "box" that they have rights to upload those videos.
In case if they were illegally uploaded to our website and you claim that they are yours, please provide us with documents on those videos.
Best regards,
Lazl
xHamster Team"
"Lazl" is the same guy there who told me that I had to give them my 2257 documents in order to keep our Creator Account in the first place!
Now he's questioning me if I own the content I shot and that is clearly watermarked "ClaudiaMarie.Com"
That is NOT how DMCA is supposed to work.
I think I need a good attorney.