About Us
Copyright enforcement agency dedicated to digital content protection
Specialising in digital content protection allows us to focus our entire efforts on protection against problematic sources affecting the digital content industry. We cover tubes, blogs, forums, Google, torrents, and file-sharing search engines. Over the past 7 years we have been fortunate enough to build and optimise our services around some of the biggest brands in the industry such as XFC Inc., PMG Entertainment, Mayflower Entertainment, VIXEN.com and many more. We target over 3,500 piracy sites, on average remove 220,000 links daily and work with 119 studios across the digital entertainment industry.
Who We Are
Having seen piracy evolve and escalate over the past 20 years you wonder why international law has instated law to eradicate such a problematic situation. It is for this reason we are so interested in continuously learning and studying the dynamics of digital piracy to ensure we are at the forefront of innovation and practice when combating piracy.
XTakedowns was created by Scott Worsnop and David Robertson, having both a background in software and UI develop we set about creating a new solution to combat digital piracy. We soon realised how vast and complex copyright protection is and really saw it’s full reach.
At first creating such a service was a daunting task but once we built the foundations it has been a thrilling journey with new challenges at every turn. We created our software with only digital content protection in mind as we wanted to focus and perfect our service in this area first. The more solutions we create the more new ideas and challenges we face. Directing all of our effort into digital content protection has allowed our service to superseded any previous solution that was available. Now we look forward for new possibilities to not only combat piracy but to drive new traffic and revenue streams to our clients.
We will never stop piracy until all international laws allow us to, so our goal is to control it as much as possible and redirect that traffic to legitimate streams. From our experience piracy will always evolve and we will continue to innovate our services and adapt to it.
Our History
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May
2019Top 10 - Google reporting Organisations - XTakedowns is listed in the top 10 reporting organisations for piracy removals. Google’s transparency reports are publicly available. We're the only organisation in the list which is dedicated to digital content protection. We monitor over 3 millions URL's each day listed in Google, which shows that we're continuously advancing our scope on this front. This keeps us striving for more!
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Dec
2018Protecting over 130 Studios - XTakedowns is now protecting over 130 Studios across the digital entertainment industry. We are humbled that these studios decided to use our service, and it's our goal to make sure that this was the right decision each month. Our team are dedicated in providing the same quality of service each day of the year, we won't let you down!
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Mar
2018Rolling Stone - Protecting one of the biggest brands in the world, BLACKED. We were mentioned in the Rolling Stone magazine for the sheer amount of piracy content we remove for them each month. To date, we have removed over 16 million links and this number continues to grow each day.
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Jun
2017XTORS Demo - our company has been working on an innovative new product that could really help your business with our new torrent infiltration model.
Our new service is very different to the traditional tube model, the only traffic we are going to effect is torrent / p2p traffic. A traffic stream which has never been directly marketed before. -
Jun
2016Dyno Delegation - With over 2.5 million links collected each day from Google, We created a new platform to manage this data and filter it through to our library of dynamic harvesting tools or team support.
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Mar
2016Bing Tube? - Who would have thought that Bing video search would be the most extensive library of illegal porn in the world. Once we saw this we set about designing a harvesting solution for it.
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Jan
2016Captcha solved! - I'm sure you are aware sites are adopting more and more link harvesting protections such as captchas, relinking services and other bot protections, well we've got a team of workers running through these and other investigations 7 days a week. This is the next level of copyright protection.
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Dec
2015Investigation Platform - Our goal has been to create and streamline a fast interactive system which monitors many different piracy streams, Google being the biggest one and allows us to view, verify and process anything which comes through, this has been part of our service but with 3 years of experience we knew this could be optimised further.
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Nov
2015Google Evolution - Monitoring Google is not as easy as it sounds, Google have many bot detections and security procedures in place. But nothing that our windows worker can’t handle
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Aug
2015Windows Worker - This worker has shown it’s dedication and collected more infringements then all of our team put together. This worker is a windows bot which can bypass any bot detection and can duplicate itself multiple times over.
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May
2015Tube Reviewal Platform - The most important content to remove are videos titled with your DVD/Scene terms, as it is these videos which appear when users are specifically looking for your content. For retitled and removed watermarked content we developed a manual reviewal platform where we can gather and verify latest content releases within specific targeting categories or tag results across the tube sites.
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Nov
2014Protek Media S.C. was formed! - XTakedowns.com was formed into the company named Protek Media.
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Aug
2014Megathread Technology - Forums are highly active piracy streams, but they can be very tricky to monitor as most forums have bot and search protections. Our technology can login search and decrypt infringements even within Megathread.
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May
2014Launch of our Statistics Platform - We wanted to provide our clients with complete transparency into our operations. This is why we allow our clients to review all of our copyright notices and takedowns statuses.
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Dec
2013Google DMCA Trusted Partner - After many attempts to increase our daily Google limit Google invited us into their trusted DMCA agent's program. We showed that to manually verify everything and have security systems in place was the way to avoid mistakes.
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Sep
2013Our first show! - We attended WMA Amsterdam to visit our clients and friends we have met along the way. Of Course this was a great opportunity to speak to new studios to discuss different strategies and learn what content owners were looking for.
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Aug
2013DYNO was born - We developed the first version of our DYNO tool. This tool enabled us to dynamically scan any webpage for infringing URLs. We use it every day in this job and It has been improved immensely ever since.
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Jul
2013Benchmarked! - Gammae network benchmarked us against 3 other leading DMCA companies, the response we got back "You guys won hands down on multiple fronts".
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May
2013Our First Google DMCA - It was time to crack down on Google removals, so we created software to output the links and make the process as streamlined as possible. Google limited us to 1000’s URLs per day little did we know how advanced we would make this area of our services.
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Jan
2013Our first client! - ReallyUseful Network changed to our service and we continued to working with them until they sold in 2015. We removed over 1.2 millions link to their content by the end.
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Dec
2012Proof of concept. - ReallyUseful network allowed us to test and build the foundations of our services around their content. 2 weeks later we managed to find 25,000 active links to their content while they were still using an alternative takedown service. It was at this point we saw the potential of our product.
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Sep
2012The birth of XTakedowns! - From the help and encouragement of our close friends in the industry we set out and started investigating the the market and planned our innovative possibilities.
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Aug
2012A partnership was formed - Over the Summer we planned and bounced different ideas about online copyright protection.
