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In 2020 the Verge reported that over 1.6 terabytes of OnlyFans photos and videos had been shared online.

These leaks rob creators of control over their work, jeopardize their privacy and safety.

Takedown Piracy has removed over 10 million infringements from Google and nearly 100 million more from individual sites and profiles.

The internet has transformed the porn industry tremendously.

In 2005 Variety reported, “Piracy has reached epidemic proportions sapping as much as 20%30% of the annual revenues of top porn producers like Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment .

Direct-to-consumer platforms like OnlyFans , ManyVids , and JustFor . Fans have helped creators gain more autonomy and control over their work.

The war on porn actually has the potential to make digital piracy worse.

There has been a growing conservative movement to introduce age-verification laws in several U.S. states, with the goal of protecting children from accessing adult content.

These laws often require websites to implement costly third -party age verification software.