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OnlyFans Models Are Accidentally Making Hacked Government Websites Disappear
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Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades.
Key facts
- Pollock’s analysis says there have been 384,286 takedown requests, covering 631,193 URLs, from adult content creators to government and education websites since 2011
- Of these requests, Google appears to have removed around 130,000 of these URLs, with no action being taken against 460,000, Pollock’s analysis says
- Some of these recent copyright takedown requests seen by WIRED include government and university websites in Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Nigeria, the United States, and Peru
- Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades
Summary
“We do lose a lot of money because the content is a Google search away a lot of the time,” Lux says, describing the murky online underbelly, mostly made up of men, that shares and trades pirated adult content. Content creators have filed millions of requests under copyright laws, with successful requests under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act resulting in pages hosting stolen pictures and videos being removed from search results. However, these DMCA requests, which are often made by companies representing adult content creators, have also collided with one of the internet’s long-standing problems: insecure government and university websites. For years, scammers have hijacked official websites, which have authoritative.gov and.edu domain names that often appear high in Google search results, to upload malicious pages and PDFs pushing claims of free movie downloads, iPhones, porn, and Fortnite skins.