How To Protect Your Adult Site From Piracy

• 26 Aug, 2024
• Adult Site Broker

Owning a porn site can offer many opportunities to earn a profit, especially by providing exclusive content for a monthly fee or one-off pay-per-view price. However, no matter if you own a niche member site, offer porn stars and adult content creators the opportunity to sell their content on your fan site, or have another site model, piracy can affect your monthly profits.  

Like with any content uploaded onto the website, the threat of piracy is never gone when it comes to the world of porn, but there are ways you can protect your porn site from having its content stolen and uploaded elsewhere. In this article, Adult Site Broker walks you through the best ways to protect yourself from piracy as an adult site owner. 

Piracy and Porn Sites 

As tube sites become popular, allowing users to upload clips to share with others freely, the growing rise of pirated content on these sites has become common. Although many may find it a simple annoyance for the content owners or the website owners of the membership sites and fan sites, it has come to be that this isn’t just a nuisance that happens but a profit stealer. 

As the clips are repurposed and uploaded for free, it drives traffic and potential customers away from the original website and your site, making people less likely to sign up to pay for exclusive content when they can access it for free. 

On the other hand, as a tube site owner where these pirated clips are being uploaded, it also threatens your website’s profitability and reputation. If you are a site that is constantly receiving DMCA takedown notices or facing legal action for pirated content, the problems can become a full-time job. Suppose you are a porn site that makes its primary revenue from directed traffic or advertisements. In that case, losing your reputation can also threaten your profitability, making other adult websites less likely to want to advertise their content with you.  

No matter which side of this you fall on, as an adult site owner, knowing how to protect your site against piracy is vital to your reputation, profits, and driving traffic to your website. 

How To Protect Your Porn Site From Piracy 

DMCA Takedown Notices 

As an adult site owner, if you notice your content has been pirated and uploaded onto a third-party website, then you can send a DMCA takedown notice. These can be sent to the website providers, search engines, and any website responsible for hosting your pirated content. The process is simple: you simply file the DMCA takedown form with all the relevant information, including a link to the pirated content and a statement that you want it taken down as you do not consent to it being uploaded. The notice will then be sent to the service provider or website owner to take action, who must remove or block access to the content, and then the website owner should remove the content.  

Moderators 

As a tube site owner, a great way to ensure that your content isn’t stolen from another site is by having moderators. These people go through the uploaded content and monitor it for pirated content. This allows you to take down any content before a DMCA takedown notice has been issued. They can also oversee the uploading habits of users; if you have a user that constantly posts or knowingly steals pirated content and uploads it elsewhere, then you can take action to remove their account. 

Model Release Forms 

If you are a porn site that allows content to be uploaded, such as a tube site or a fan site, then asking for the relevant model release forms before uploading is a great way to stop piracy. Not only does this show that the models consent to being in the content, but it also shows that they are happy with their content being shared and uploaded online. It also shows that the people uploading the content have the right to it, allowing them to upload it.   

Watermark Content 

Although watermarking doesn’t prevent piracy, it makes it less appealing for pirates to steal and re-upload content elsewhere because the watermark distinguishes where the content originally came from. You can do this for images and video, where the watermark will appear as superimposed text or a logo, or for audio clips where a regular interruption occurs. 

Disable Downloads

A simple but effective way to protect your site against piracy is by disabling downloads. That way, it isn’t easy to download content and steal it. 

Anti-piracy Services 

Finally, a great way to protect your porn site from pirated content is by working with an expert to protect your content for you. There are a few anti-piracy services, all offering services and tools such as tracking your content, enforcing copyright infringement, and protecting your website from future piracy. 

At Adult Site Broker, we recommend the following: 

Takedown Piracy 

Takedown Piracy works to enforce DMCA provisions and protect intellectual property and content. Utilizing their fingerprint technology, they have helped in billions of cases where their pirated content was taken down from third-party sites. 

Brandit Scan 

Brandit Scan offers full-scope protection of all your content and brand name across different forms of digital piracy (including uploading on third-party sites and torrenting sites). Brandit Scan is a popular choice for anti-piracy services in the adult industry. With a simple three-step process and an easy-to-use app to access their reports, they put you back in control of who can have your content. Once you have selected the content you want removed, they will oversee the DMCA takedown process for you and clean up your Google search by removing pirated or bad links. 

ONSIST 

For fan sites like OnlyFans, Fansly, Instagram and Patreon, ONSIST offers anti-piracy services for content creators. They search for copies of accounts and content online, send out takedown notices to get copies of your content removed, and clean up Google’s search engines so only legal links remain—allowing adult content creators and adult sites the opportunity to stop losing money from their exclusive content. 

Conclusion 

Over the last few years, piracy has risen in the world of adult entertainment, with adult sites and content creators alike having to be diligent to ensure their content doesn’t get stolen, losing money in the long run. 

However, you can limit the chance of your content being stolen by taking precautions such as watermarking content, disabling plug-ins, and working with industry-leading anti-piracy services.

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