FreeOnes

The rapid rise of false DMCA complaints is getting insane.
In my opinion these are mostly DMCA companies profiting of every DMCA complaints and secondly performers without any knowledge about IP / contracts and sometimes everything else in life.
All these complaints fuck up your SEO listings and cost a lot of time and money to counter fight, if possible.

At first the system was working. Now it's totally broke. The amount of false claims is way higher than 50% now, something like 95% false for us!

What's your experience and how do you fight this back?

A few articles about this topic:

Fighting the Fakers: A Guide to Dealing With Bogus Copyright Complaints on Google
https://medium.com/occrp-unreported/...e-fbcbf24d40a6

DMCA takedown Notice removed high ranking URLs from Google
https://www.webmasterworld.com/google/5065695.htm

Google Play: False DMCA Complaints ruin lives of developers
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQues..._of/?rdt=48838

How do I handle false DMCA notices
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-handl...er-DMCA-notice

__________________

The new FreeOnes!

mopek1

I hear you. One of my sites is a user submitted site and I got a dmca complaint to take down multiple images over many pages.

It was time consuming. Only to find out months later that it was fake. The owners of the content emailed me asking why I took their stuff down, as they had never requested I do so. They didn't even know what a dmca was!

I have no idea why someone would take the time to mess with another website(s) that has no real basis in reality.

But I am getting tired of it.

V_RocKs

I've been getting quite a few lately.

Some dumb bitch from only fans flat said the homepage of one of our sites was infringing on her. It had zero of her works. She's not a webcam model. I figured out who she was and appealed to her to do the right thing and rescind the complaint. She told me to GFY. So I let her know, I have a lawyer, and if I have to go that route I'm not stopping. She would be sued for filing a false dmca and we'd get our lost revenue $xx,xxx over the 10 business days to get it reinstated via Google's route, plus lawyers fees, and court costs. Either rescind or it's going to happen and we will post about it all over forums, Reddit, GFY, etc. She quickly rescinded the complaint and we were back in Google an hour later.

It's pretty fucking lame because her example of works stolen and her example of where it was on our site didn't add up to shit. Any ass hat could have noticed, this content isn't on this site or it's homepage.

V_RocKs

Most likely it was your competition that ranked behind you in Google.

DukeSkywalker

Literally many are sent by save a ho’s

__________________
Friend of Bears and Guest of Eagles
I am the clue-finder
Falcon catcher
I am he who causes Falcons to soar due south but no winds caused me.
I am he who has eyes, but not to see.
I am the ring wearer and apron wearer
I am he that carries a pointed staff and raises his fellows with certain grips and words
I am he that knows my brethren in the darkness as well as in the light

Mechanic / Fixer. Literally and figuratively

mopek1

That's what I initially thought too.

femdomdestiny

My experience is that I do not care. Sites paying for those services that are attacking legitimate webmasters don't deserve to be promoted. It is frustrating and irritating but that's only me.

__________________
Femdom Destiny


--------------------------------------------
ICQ: 463-630-426
email: webmaster(at)femdomdestiny.com

pornlaw

Until people start filing suits against models/creators this will not change.

White labeling works for a time but often falls off and is forgotten.

__________________
Michael

www.AdultBizLaw.com

daviking

I am spending 6h a month sending counter dmcas to google. Annoying, but everything gets reinstated.

LouiseLloyd

How would an affiliate go about this? The agent is the point of contact but undoubtedly the model will have never provided a real name or valid address.

Say I was to issue a small claims for losses to a model that I knew resided in my jurisdiction, but didn't know real name or address, only DMCA agent as point of contact?

__________________

adtrafic

https://marefeat.com/

These idiots are sending a lot of reports in the name of javhd.com to empty domains that have been parked for years.

Wautier

Marefeat is owned by JavHD.

CaptainHowdy

__________________
Get Your Free Backlinks Today 149 URLs to pick from - Go To The Thread here!
Join the SWAG Affiliate Asian Live Cam Program Non-Saturated Models and Exclusive Content.

jscott

Thanks for sharing the articles Freeones. For now I think we need to continue sending counter notifications, and hopefully someday the false DMCA senders will get penalized for it.

__________________
“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
—Jordan B. Peterson

pornlaw

It's not a small claims case. Its US federal law so it should be filed in US federal court.

The best way would be for a group of interested plaintiffs (affiliates, program owners ect) to join together, chose a lead plaintiff, split the costs and hire an attorney to file the lawsuit. It's not a class action so to speak since there would be no class but merely a sharing of costs.

I believe there is an attorney fee provision in the DMCA so that if you win you can recover any attorneys fees spent.

However, be careful who you chose as a defendant so that they have deep enough pockets that you can actually collect.

There's no penalty provision in the law for companies that file false DMCAs. This is why they act with complete disregard for the law. The person or company that caused the false DMCA to be filed is the responsible party.

The plaintiffs would subpoena the information on the models name from the DMCA takedown company and they would have to provide all the information they have on their client.

You could try to name the DMCA company as a defendant but they would probably be quickly dismissed from the case but you might be able to cost them the attorneys fees to file the dismissal which might motivate them to change their policies.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...earch-results/

https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/202...-dmca-notices/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultas...ny-2-youtuber/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/2...wn-competitors

https://torrentfreak.com/shopify-fil...ssment-231128/

https://torrentfreak.com/ytmp3-sues-...otices-230801/

__________________
Michael

www.AdultBizLaw.com

FreeOnes

This is also very annoying to this story.
https://lumendatabase.org/notices/15...request_access
When you like to get more information you can only do 1 request per 24 hours per email address. I have asked for a researcher account and got this answer:

"Thank you for your letter and your interest in working with the Lumen database.
At this time we generally issue Lumen researcher credentials only to people or non-profit organizations planning journalistic, academic, or legislative policy-focused public written research outputs.
Lumen is an academic research project, not a service, and should not be part of any business model. Businesses interested in takedown notices referencing their sites that have been sent to other OSPs should investigate webmaster and/or Search Console tools, or contact those OSPs directly.
We offer limited access to notices to individual members of the public - 1 notice per email address per 24 hours. In order to manage Lumen resources and mitigate misuse of the site, we also block historically problematic IP addresses and email domains.
Sincerely,
The Lumen Team
"

__________________

The new FreeOnes!

adtrafic

So this is a new way of SPAM promotion? Since I receive reports to cloudfare of domains that do not have a website and that there has been a 301 redirect for years, or of websites that do not have the content they report.

They have another website in the contact email for the reports.

https://takedown.company/

Several years ago the same thing happened with Mareafeat, at that time I investigated them and they had not even paid the company renewal fee in Belize at that time, so they where sending the reports from an inactive company and the reports are always in the name of a girl from Kyrgyzstan or something like that.

geirlur

It's shitty how some models get paid to do a scene and then they dmca every promo attempt of said scene afterwards.. xD

__________________
Make some easy pay per click money with Exoclick

jscott

Another shitty unfair thing is when they send a DMCA they can have a lot of urls listed in one claim, when you counterclaim there is a limit to how many urls we can counter, which means some of them won't be countered (haven't tried yet, maybe can send multiple counterclaims each to fit in all the urls). For reference, another thread on this topic.

__________________
“If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
—Jordan B. Peterson

Mr.Fiction

Use a unique email address for each request using the number of the request at their database:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

As long as you have a catchall email address, you can make one for every request.

__________________
Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

FreeOnes

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...earch-results/

Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results

There needs to come a new system.

__________________

The new FreeOnes!

FreeOnes

It is totally ridiculous that it's even possible to file a DMCA complaint about more than 1 domain at once. This one has 950 url's!!
https://lumendatabase.org/notices/39...HcVVWbdz6SgYow



http://www.hostones.com/temp/maurice/gfy/DMCA.txt

__________________

The new FreeOnes!

Mr.Fiction

Some of the fake complaints target text keywords without regard for what's on the URL. If the DMCA company represents a model named Jenna Jameson, they DMCA random pages with the word Jenna Jameson even if there are no pictures or videos on the page. Google often notices these reports are fake and refuses to remove the pages even though they are listed on Lumen.

__________________
Don't be lazy, protect free speech: ACLU | Free Speech Coalition | EFF | IMPA

laouch

I am the only one who cant send counter notice since few days ?
It always something like "Unable to submit your form at this time. Please correct the fields above." (https://support.google.com/legal/con..._counternotice)

TheSenator

Even though I am an affiliate and follow the rules, one of my tube sites got slammed by DMCA notices and removals.

It cost me thousands because I built up organic searches throughout the years and bought traffic from PlugRush, among others.

Google defaults to the claim owner and de-lists the page that is infringing.

I can handle a few DMCA notices, but when it comes to thousands, I give up because of the time and effort I need to put into it. The time is better spent elsewhere in my day to make money.

I think affiliate programs should have a whitelist of domains that are affiliates so that their lawyers and automated bots can stop DMCA notices.

All the money I invested into https://www.kernel-video-sharing.com/en/ sucks because of these DMCA notices where I am sending pure organic searches back to my affiliates.

__________________
ISeekGirls.com since 2005

TheSenator

If you have anything that says "OnlyFans," or "Leaked," plus porn star stage name, it gets flagged.

They are just keying on some target words and names.

You can't say, "The former OnlyFans star crossed over to the adult industry and is now gaping out her ass," because the DMCA bot will pick that up even though you are promoting the affiliate program.

If you want to block the IPs from DMCA notices and other bad bots, here is a fucking huge list. You will need a top-end VPS or dedicated server to add the list to your CSF deny list. The list is updated every two hours.

https://github.com/bitwire-it/ipbloc...readme-ov-file


If anyone else has a better solution please let us know.

__________________
ISeekGirls.com since 2005

TheSenator

OnlyFans model Alexis Tae gets her ass fucked and gaped. Brought to you by Brazzers.

https://www.redgifs.com/watch/unequaledlawfulinganue

You see, this is not a leaked photo or anything like that. Alexis Tae is an OnlyFans model but also does porn videos for Brazzers and other adult studios.

Brazzers is under the affiliate program Adult Force.

A DMCA bot will hit this post eventually unless there is a whitelist that affiliate webmasters don't know about.

__________________
ISeekGirls.com since 2005

redwhiteandblue

Those need someone to convert them to CIDR address ranges and then put in the htaccess deny list, it's a bit daft trying to block so many individual IP addresses.

__________________
Interserver unmanaged AMD Ryzen servers from $73.00

laouch

No one ?

SecretEmpire

Can blocking dmca bots actually help? I figured they just scraped Google results without paying any attention to the actual website. And you can't block them from search results.

laouch

Sorry wrong link : https://support.google.com/legal/con...duct=websearch

So no one ?

SecretEmpire

Fdsmfdmkfadkf v. A zccd v df