DMCA.com

What the vendor is

DMCA.com is a content protection and takedown service owned and operated by Digital Millennium Copyright Act Services Ltd., which the about page describes as a private company. Its pages list a global headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, and a North American office in New York. The home page says it has operated since 2006; the about page says it was started in 2010 by people who had already built and run an internet service provider. For a site operator it is several products in one account: a visible protection badge that a site installs on its pages, a subscription called Protection Pro that adds scanning, watermarking and self-service tools, managed takedown cases handled by its staff, DIY takedown tools, and a compliance product for hosts and platforms that receive notices. The pages say it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, and that a real person reviews every managed case.

The adult FAQ says the company works with adult industry professionals such as film producers, owners, content creators, distributors and publishers, and that it charges no extra fee to work with adult content.

What it sells a site operator

Takedowns are priced by case. In October 2026 the takedown page lists a Standard takedown at $199 flat per site, with a money-back guarantee on qualifying cases. Premium at $399 covers complex cases with added review and follow-up, and Platinum at $599 covers advanced escalations and non-standard cases. The pricing page lists lower per-notice rates from 10 notices upward and an Enterprise price set on requirements. Every managed case comes with a case worker and case manager, research into the host, notice drafting, follow-up and tracking until removal. The account also carries separate forms for trademark and defamation takedowns, counter-claims and XARF notices.

Protection Pro, read in October 2026, starts at $10 a month or $100 a year. The home page sets out the levels: a free tier with 100 badges and 3 domains, Pro with premium badges, DIY tools, tracked badge IDs and a creator profile, and Business at $15 a month with badgeless protection and 50 domains. The pricing page adds a multi-badge schedule for operators with many domains, starting at $9 per domain a month from 7 domains and falling as the count rises. Its feature comparison lists real-time image watermarking, a website copy scanner, a right-click blocker, WordPress and Blogger plugins, HTTPS delivery and a content delivery network for the badge. The DIY takedown toolkit, also $10 a month, provides notice templates, host and platform contact lookup tools and a case portal.

Monitoring tracks pages, text, titles and images across the web and is sold in packages, with enterprise monitoring quoted with setup and customization costs. The compliance product gives hosts and platforms compliance badges, statements, integrated takedown forms and case management, which the home page says support safe harbor workflows.

The terms that decide the choice

The adult FAQ states that DMCA.com provides takedown services for adult, XXX and pornographic content, including videos, stories, pictures, articles and photos, and that it offers bulk discount takedown pricing to adult content owners and publishers facing multiple infringements. It also offers a paid service to locate copies of a customer's material before the takedowns. The FAQ speaks of takedown work; it says nothing either way about adult sites holding a badge or a Protection Pro account.

The badge's acceptable use policy sets the rules for a publisher's own site. The badge may not appear on a site that shows content published without permission, content obtained illegally, or content prohibited by the laws of Canada or of the country where the site's host is located, and the registrant must answer the company's emails about badge use within 24 hours. The company may monitor content on badged sites and stop delivering the badge without notice if it considers content potentially illegal or infringing. In the general terms the customer warrants that its content is not defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful where it is distributed.

The managed takedown guarantee covers Standard cases only; Premium and Platinum do not carry it. The terms list the exceptions: a client who waives the guarantee in the case comments, a client who does not answer within 24 hours of an inactivity email, a client who was already trying to remove the content in parallel, and a host that reports a counterclaim and refuses removal. On subscriptions, only a yearly Protection Pro plan is refundable, only on a request within 10 days of payment, and never for monthly payments or payments made with coupon codes.

Either side may end the agreement. The company may cancel an account that breaks the terms and reimburse unused fees, prorated daily, once charges are settled. A customer may terminate on 30 days written notice. An annual or semi-annual subscriber who cancels early has the account recalculated at the month-to-month rate and the unused balance refunded. Before canceling, the customer must remove its materials from its allotted storage. Monthly customers pay any setup fee and the first month before service begins, amounts 45 days past due carry a late payment fee, and amounts 90 days past due face immediate closure.

The adult FAQ says removal can take hours or days, depending on the site and the conditions of the notice. The takedown page claims 50% of takedowns complete within 48 hours.

Getting started and support

A managed takedown starts with three items, according to the adult FAQ: the source URL or other origin of the material, the infringing URL, and a description of ownership. The terms require the customer to sign a sworn statement of ownership and authorization once, which then covers later cases. The pricing page says the claim form takes about 3 minutes, and the takedown page says a confirmation email arrives within minutes and a specialist picks up the case during business hours. Adding a badge is a registration step followed by an embed code; the pricing FAQ puts indexing of protected pages within 24 hours, with a manual scanning option to speed it up.

For platforms and multi-site operators, the home page offers a REST and SOAP API for creating and updating takedown, DIY and compliance cases, with documentation and a testing page. Support runs through a knowledge base, an ask-a-question form, chat on FB Messenger, a takedowns email address and phone lines.

Company and track record

The company calls itself the internet's original copyright protection service and claims 700K+ managed cases reviewed and processed. The pages describe a human-led service in which technology adds speed but people make the decisions. They do not name the founders or list certifications, and the testimonials come from individual customers rather than named adult studios or networks.

Who it suits

DMCA.com fits an adult publisher that wants per-site managed takedowns at a published price, with no surcharge for adult material and bulk pricing for repeat infringements. It fits an operator with many domains through the per-domain badge schedule, and a platform or host that wants notice handling through a compliance product and an API. The caveats are a refund policy limited to yearly Protection Pro plans and a guarantee that covers Standard cases only. A registered badge installed for at least 30 days can qualify a site for a free standard copyright takedown, which gives an existing badge user a low-cost first route.