When a leak shows up, the first question is who to call. The honest answer is several people, each for a different part. A site can delete the file, its host can force the site to act, Google can hide the page, and the platform you sell on can act on its own accounts.
Here is who can do what, so you don’t waste a week waiting on the wrong one.
- The site and its host can delete the content itself.
- Google and Bing can only hide pages from search, but that cuts most of the traffic.
- Your platform can act on accounts and content on its own site, not on other websites.
- A takedown service does all of the above for you, every week. A lawyer is for the cases that need more.
Who can do what
The site and its host
Most sites have a DMCA or abuse contact. When they don’t, or don’t answer, the company hosting the site usually does: hosts don’t want to be liable for copyright infringement on their servers. A WHOIS or hosting lookup shows who that is.
Our step-by-step DMCA guide shows what to send and how to follow up.
Google and Bing
Search engines can’t delete a file, but they can stop showing the page. For most leaks, that is where the traffic comes from. Delisting is free and you can file it yourself.
The platform you sell on
OnlyFans, Fansly and the others can act on accounts and content on their own platform. Copies on other websites have to be reported to those websites. Our platform guides cover what each platform can do.
A takedown service
A service does the searching, the notices, the delisting and the follow-ups for you, and keeps doing it as copies come back. What to check before you pick one:
- Does it send notices in your stage name, so your legal name stays private?
- Does it cover Telegram, social media and search on the plan you can afford?
- Does it keep scanning after the first round?
- Can you cancel any time, without a notice period?
We compare the main services honestly, including where they beat us: Lock Leaks vs Rulta, vs Bruqi, vs BrandItScan.
A lawyer, or the police
A lawyer makes sense when one person or site keeps leaking your work, when you know who did it, or when there is serious money involved. Intimate images shared to hurt you, threats or blackmail are crimes in many countries: report them to the police. In the US, the Take It Down Act also requires platforms to remove intimate images within 48 hours of a valid request.
