DMCA and copyright
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What we are
BestTransPorn is a directory. We host no video. Each listing is a thumbnail, a title and a link to the video's page on the site where it lives. The thumbnail loads in your browser straight from that site's servers; we do not copy or store it. For Pornhub and XVideos, the video can also be played on our page in a pop-up, in that site's own player, which loads from that site's servers when a visitor chooses to load it. We hold no copy of any video.
The fastest way to remove a link
Press the flag on the video and choose “It is my copyrighted work”. The flag tells us exactly which listing you mean. Give an email address so we can reply. You can also use the report form and paste the title or address. We review copyright reports within two working days.
Sending a formal notice
You can also send a written notice under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A) it needs:
- Your physical or electronic signature, as the owner or as someone authorized to act for the owner.
- The work you say is being infringed. If several works are involved, a representative list is enough.
- The listings you want removed: the title as it appears here and the address of the video page it links to, or other details that let us find them.
- How to reach you: postal address, phone number and email.
- A statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.
Where to send it
Copyright contact: Copyright Agent, BestTransPorn
PO Box 421, Ingleside ON K0C 1M0, Canada
Email: dmca@besttransporn.com
What we do with it
Within two working days of a complete notice, we remove the listing and add it to our removed list. From then on our pages do not open the listing or load its player, even from a page that was already open in someone's browser. Every update checks that list, so a feed cannot bring the video back. The listing returns only if you withdraw your notice or a valid counter-notice is filed (see below).
Our link is not the file
Removing our listing does not remove the video. It stays on the site that hosts it until that site takes it down. Send your notice to that site as well: the listing, or the "Open on" link in its pop-up, takes you to the video's page there, and the 2257 page lists every site we link to.
Counter-notice
If a listing was removed after a notice, and you own the video or uploaded it to the site that hosts it, you can object if you believe it was removed by mistake or misidentified. Send a counter-notice to the same address. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g)(3) it needs:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- The listing that was removed and where it appeared before removal.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you believe in good faith it was removed by mistake or because it was misidentified.
- Your name, address and phone number, and a statement that you accept the jurisdiction of the US federal district court for the district where your address is (or, if you live outside the United States, any district where we may be found), and that you will accept service of legal papers from the person who sent the notice or their agent.
We send a copy to the person who sent the notice. Unless they tell us they have filed a court action, we may put the listing back 10 to 14 working days after your counter-notice arrives.
Repeat infringers
There are no user accounts here, so our repeat-infringer rule applies to the sites we list. A source that repeatedly supplies listings we have to remove for copyright is dropped from the directory.
Owners in Canada
We act on notices from Canadian owners the same way, within the same two working days. Canada has no takedown procedure like the DMCA. The Copyright Act uses a “notice and notice” system: an owner can send a notice of claimed infringement to an internet provider, a host, or a provider of an information location tool such as a directory (section 41.25). Internet providers and hosts must forward it to the person the location belongs to (section 41.26). A notice under the Act must be in writing, give your name and address and your right in the work, identify the work and the location, and say what infringement is claimed and when. It must not contain an offer to settle or a demand for payment.
False notices
Under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that something is infringing, or that it was removed by mistake, can be liable for the damages that causes, including costs and lawyers' fees.