Should I even fight fake dmca reports?

rinba said:

Welcome to a comp heavy niche, there’s not that much you can do against it other than looking for a bullet proof hosting provider that’ll ignore those reports.

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fandistrict said:

its not even THAT competitive. Im not posting famous models leaks, just italian ones and there was 0 content before i stepped in. No issues with actual real dmca with my new providers as of rn. Usually you have that type of issues with real dmcas and not fake ones

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High Score said:

That is actually pretty competitive buddy

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Fubar1 said:

yes, but fight them as paperwork, not as a war. counter notice on every one, keep a folder with the notice, the date and the counter, because the second time the same sender files, that folder is what gets the host to ignore him. and the dmca agent on your own site, registered, with a real address, so the reports go to you first and not to the host. the ddos and the dmcas are the same person, he will stop when it costs him more time than you

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tjbjosh said:

thats one of downside of working in a competitive niche and fake dmcas can be hard to deal with even when you file counter notices keep records of every report and work with a host that has clear process for handling abuse claims rather than one that just ignores everything

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• • Pretty much true. Offshore or DMCA-ignored hosting is often the only realistic fix when competitors keep filing bogus abuse reports.
  • Just make sure to keep regular offsite backups of your site data

fandistrict said:

I launched my first +18 site 40 days ago, and I've been doing really really good, but around the first of the month some dumbasses started DDoSing me for some reason, changed infrastructure and now im chilling.
After they tried to attack the site again with no success, the dumbasses started sending a lot of fake DMCAs to all my links, private sender and just a bunch of random links and pages. They were able to deindex a lot of them,
some are still, but traffic got a decent hit, the site is not dead but a 30-40 percent drop in visits and video views dropped aswell. I've sent counter-notices to all the fake reports, so I believe they will re-indexed soon.

Is there even a way of fighting this type of attacks? I read that changing url and content slightly might work while leaving the reported urls the same to try to reindex, but im sure they will just go for those again.
Honestly I thought about just chilling, waiting for the re-indexing and just keep posting content and growing the catalog. I'd rather play the long game than going and sending fake dmcas to all my competitors ( which would take an insane amount of time and resources).

Has anyone dealt with a similar situation before? How did yall handle it , or what do yall think yall would do if it ever happpened?

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