DMCA issues

[kornalious]

Hey
I'm facing a serious issue with DMCA takedown notices. I run a free tube site and have been receiving a flood of them lately. It seems that actresses who have opened OnlyFans accounts are sending out DMCA notices for any video that mentions their name, regardless of content.
I don't know how to handle this. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Any advice on how to deal with these notices and protect my content would be greatly appreciated.

[edward8]

change the url or that post that gets dmca and show a error page that says the content you were looking for got removed.

You still have the content but its removed from reported url. Fuck the DMCA

[modelsearchengine]

Just ignore it

[RBM_Paul]

It is very interesting how so many of the DMCA agents and their clients have no office office or presences in the USA.

So many OF creators are scammed.

[celandina]

We are using USA based take down service for about four years. Those who ignore the notice get reported to Google. This usually works. So fuck pirates !!!

[MCVance]

it's not the girls doing it manually. they are hiring brand protection agencies that run automated scraping bots 24/7. these bots scrape tube sites for exact name matches in titles and urls, and the high-end ones even use facial recognition on your thumbnails.

they are hitting you with a tactic called "volume exhaustion". they just flood your abuse inbox with automated dmca notices hoping you get tired of dealing with it and just ban the keyword or the uploader to stop the spam. if you want to keep the content up you basically have to adapt against their bots:

bulletproof hosting is the only real shield. if your origin server is in a non dmca jurisdiction like russia, iceland or seychelles, you can literally just throw the notices in the trash. if you're on standard hosting they will eventually force your host to pull your plug under threat of losing their upstream providers.

break their perceptual hashing (pHash) scanners. their bots hash the video to auto-flag it. run the videos through ffmpeg before hosting. flip the video horizontally, tweak the brightness/contrast slightly, change the resollution, and speed up the audio by about 3%. it looks normal to users but completely breaks their automated detection scripts.

stop using their exact onlyfans names. use generic tags or variations. if the bot can't string match the name or reverse searcch the thumbnail, the agency has to find it manually, which costs them too much time and money.

it's just a game of automation. break their tracking bots and they usually move on to easier targets.