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Originally Posted by NoWhErE
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
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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.