Takedown Piracy review: fingerprinting for adult studios

How Takedown Piracy fingerprinting finds stolen scenes

Takedown Piracy extracts a digital fingerprint from each client video and scans uploads on piracy sites for matches, around the clock. Every hit goes to an anti-piracy specialist, who confirms it before the DMCA notice goes out in the client’s name. The technology comes from partner AV Registry, and the sites being scanned do not have to install or cooperate with anything.

A match survives cropping, clipping, distortion, low-quality re-encodes and made-up titles. The system also keeps a record of everything it has scanned, so fingerprints added today turn up copies posted years ago. That lets a studio clean up an old catalog in one pass.

Coverage runs to hundreds of tube sites and hundreds of file lockers, torrent sites, blogs, forums and social accounts. Clients can also send in a URL the team does not yet monitor, and a site with enough traffic gets added to the program for everyone.

ClipSentry: what $150 a month buys an independent creator

ClipSentry is the self-serve version for creators who sell on clip sites or on OnlyFans. Takedown Piracy files the notices, and AV Registry provides the technology and the site. The plan includes:

• 24/7 monitoring of leak sites, tubes, torrents, file lockers, social media, blogs and forums,
• video fingerprinting and image removal,
• search engine removal and keyword monitoring,
• a web portal with real-time DMCA statistics and unlimited takedown requests.

The subscription renews monthly at the rate you signed up at, and any price increase only applies from the next term after advance notice. You have to cancel before the renewal date. Payments are final: refunds come only as a credit, at the company’s discretion, in exceptional circumstances. Agencies and management companies get a custom quote instead.

When a site ignores Takedown Piracy’s DMCA notices

Most sites take content down within a few hours to several days, since the DMCA sets no deadline. When one refuses, the team goes after its payment processor or web host, with no guarantee.

Takedown Piracy is a member of Google’s Trusted Content Removal Program and says it has delisted more than 150 million infringing URLs. A page that stays online can still drop out of the results for a studio’s brand names. Bing is not part of the offer.

For cases headed to court, the team gathers evidence and refers clients to intellectual property attorneys it partners with. Takedown Piracy itself does not practice law.

Who runs Takedown Piracy

Takedown Piracy Inc. is Nate Glass’s company. Testimonials from James Deen, Grooby founder Steven Grooby and Girlfriends Films describe him as a long-standing anti-piracy campaigner in adult. Reba Rocket is chief operating and marketing officer. ClipSentry is run jointly with AV Registry LLC, which lists a PO box in Shawnee, Kansas. takedownpiracy.com publishes no address, terms or FAQ, and ClipSentry’s terms were last modified in February 2021.

The same team runs Operation Minerva for victims of revenge porn and non-consensual deepfakes, fingerprinting the videos and documenting evidence for litigation.

Its headline figures do not line up: over 300 million pirated items removed on the home page, over 220 million in ClipSentry’s copy and 130 million DMCA removals on ClipSentry’s counter, none of them dated.

Takedown Piracy strengths and limitations