Piracy Stops Here

If there was an award for a business whose name describes exactly what they do, Piracy Stops Here would probably take home the gold. There is no doubt what Piracy Stops Here’s goal is when you first learn about them. They exist to stop the theft of your intellectual property and ultimately, to make sure that you don’t lose anymore profits than you have.

What the name does not tell you is that the company primarily focuses on protecting porn brands from piracy. They even have a site called Do Not Post that lists adult companies and brands that are banned from getting posted on one of their sites altogether. They care about protecting your adult brands from thieves – that much is certain. Visit their site and see just how they plan to ensure that your intellectual properties stay out of the hands of pirates that want to download your shit for free!

DMCA Reporting, 24/7

It’s an awesome thing to know that an anti-piracy company specializes in fighting back against porn pirates. But it’s even better to know that the entity conducts DMCA reporting 24 hours a day, seven days a week. There are plenty of companies out there that provide automatic DMCA reporting; few of them provide continuous 24/7 support.

But Piracy Stops Here claims to be one of the few. They state that their staff constantly monitors all areas of the Web to catch any pirated content that may get posted. They don’t specify where these areas are or how exactly the sausage is made. I am sure there are reasons for that. I wish that they would at least show some details about how they monitored and caught pirated content. Otherwise, you have to take their word for it.

Assuming that Piracy Stops Here is true to their word and understands the best practices about how to catch piracy when it happens, they at least tell you what they do whenever they find pirated content. Piracy Stops Here states that they file DMCA notices every 15 minutes! They file these notices to filehosts, newsgroups, tube sites, torrent sites, blogs, and essentially anywhere that is hosting a pirated URL. If pirated content can be downloaded on a site that is hosting the direct URL, chances are Piracy Stops Here will file it.

Once DMCA notices have been filed, Piracy Stops Here will constantly monitor the offending URLs. They will see when/if the files are ultimately taken down. If they are not, Piracy Stops Here will turn up the goddamn heat! The language on their site comes across as they don’t take, ‘no,’ for an answer. Judging that their name is one step away from calling themselves, ‘we bitch slap porn pirates here,’ suffice to say, they know how to get the attention of entities that host pirated pornography.

Turns up the fucking heat when pirates don’t comply

Let’s assume that you hire Piracy Stops Here and they find infringing content on various platforms. Once they find the pirated content, they will then send DMCA notices as discussed previously. But what happens whenever the guilty party decides to give you and Piracy Stops Here the proverbial middle finger? What can you do when they tell the both of you to, ‘go fuck yourself’, and continue pirating like it’s going out of goddamn style?

For you, you don’t have to do a fucking thing. Piracy Stops Here will do it all for you by cranking their efforts up to eleven and ensuring that the pirated content is removed. Once an offending party refuses to remove the pirated content, Piracy Stops Here states that their escalation team will work to remove the entire fucking site from the Internet if they do not comply. That’s serious shit!

Judging by the language on their site, they mean it, too. Their escalation team alerts Internet Service Providers, billing companies for the site, advertisers, and any other company/entity that is connected to the site. Their goal is to cut off funding to the site because they are pirating content. In other words, if the offending site will not comply, Piracy Stops Here hits throws a proverbial series of haymakers that are so impactful, they make the offending party lose money.

Don’t fuck with Piracy Stops Here. They come across as sleuths that have been around the block for a long time. Even if piracy sites try to ignore them, they have tricks up their sleeves that will ensure you don’t lose any more fucking money than you have to on piracy.

Two ways to track piracy

Although Piracy Stops Here does not actually show you how they go out of their way to monitor, find, and kill piracy in its tracks, they at least share how they discover files are pirated. They provide what is called Digital Fingerprints. There are two types of them.

The first type Piracy Stops Here references is embeddable data the company puts into your content before someone downloads it. When Piracy Stops Here finds your content illegally hosted online, they can actually tell you which users are responsible for downloading it. This allows them to reach out to the owner specifically and right the wrong. It’s pretty damn sneaky, but that’s what it takes to snuff out pirated porn.

The other type of digital fingerprint that’s utilized is another method for figuring out who is pirating your content. This type of digital fingerprint is distributed to popular tube sites. You can probably guess which ones they are referring to, as you have likely been there before jacking off and blowing your load in your father’s sock. If any of these sites have uploaded content that matches the digital fingerprint, the site will actually link to your site instead.

This is a convenient alternative to filing takedown notices. Instead of using a brute force tactic to fight back against your pirated content, Piracy Stops Here knows how to stop it as it happens from the inside. While some of the content does not get removed, at least the content cannot be downloaded or streamed, and instead redirects to your site.

These are tactics not every anti-piracy group uses. But it seems effective, and it is awesome to know that Piracy Stops Here uses interesting tactics that seem to work to fight against piracy. More importantly, these use methods that will stop you from losing so much fucking money!

Monthly assistance for your legal team

Does your adult brand have a legal team? You need to get a lawyer as soon as possible. It has nothing to do with operating a brand in the porn niche: owning your own business means you need to be acquainted with a lawyer that you can trust, period. When you have a lawyer that can represent you and answers any legal questions you may have, you have serious firepower to withstand any legal woes that may come your way.

Being legally protected also has its perks when you hire Piracy Stops Here. Once a month, the Piracy Stops Team will reach out to your legal team/lawyer every month to inform them how your content is being downloaded and distributed illegally. The team will share all of their findings, including the infringing sites, users, repeat infringers, etc. They are called Evidence Packages, and Piracy Stops Here swears by them.

They claim that they are so effective that in their words, the Evidence Packages, “…have been the cornerstone of some of the largest legal cases over the last five years.” They also claim that their team's findings have been, “responsible for taking some of the largest file hosting companies offline.” They don’t name any names or even proof of this actually being the case. But even so, they come across as knowledgeable and seriously knowing what they are talking about.

When you consider that Piracy Stops Here even finds physical counterfeited goods and stops them from getting sold, suffice to say they know how to stop piracy in its tracks. It’s no wonder they have named themselves ‘Piracy Stops Here.’ Piracy does indeed seem to stop here. Reach out to them and see what they can do for you!

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Piracy Stops Here is your go-to when you want innovative tactics to end the pirating of your content. When you need anti-piracy measures that work along with data sharing that shows how your content is getting pirated, the team delivers this information every month. It would be much more convenient if they had some information regarding pricing plans. Add this information, and more subscribers will follow.