An anti-piracy enforcement firm says it stripped nearly 1.9 million pirated links of stolen creator content from a single piracy network running through the cloud storage service MEGA.nz between May and September 2026. Takedown Piracy, the company behind the operation, logged 1,884,339 URL removals over those five months, according to a report that first surfaced via AVN and was confirmed by Adult FYI on 6 October.
Why it matters to creators
If your content ends up on MEGA, it isn’t sitting in one easy-to-report folder. MEGA’s end-to-end encryption and link-plus-key sharing model means pirated material gets scattered across thousands of individually encrypted folders, each needing its own takedown request. This report is a reminder of the sheer scale of that problem: a single piracy ring on a single platform generated almost two million infringing links in five months, and that’s just the activity one enforcement company caught. If that much got found on MEGA alone, the real volume of your content circulating there — plus Telegram channels and dedicated leak forums — is almost certainly higher than most creators assume. At that scale, chasing links down one DMCA notice at a time stops being a legal problem and becomes a numbers problem.
Inside the MEGA.nz piracy ring
MEGA.nz was founded in 2013 by Kim Dotcom, in the wake of the US-driven shutdown of his earlier file-sharing site Megaupload. It markets itself on end-to-end encryption and has no built-in search function — which is precisely what makes it attractive to piracy communities. Links to specific folders, bundled with the decryption key needed to open them, circulate on forums, Telegram channels and Discord servers that exist purely to catalogue stolen content, including adult creator material.
Takedown Piracy, the anti-piracy outfit run by industry enforcement specialist Reba Rocket, says it has spent the past five months embedded in exactly those communities, continuously monitoring newly advertised MEGA folders, identifying client content inside them and filing removals as soon as it’s found. The monthly totals it reported to Adult FYI show how uneven that fight is: 1,237,489 links pulled in May alone, dropping sharply to 110,497 in June and 52,040 in July, then climbing back up to 182,860 in August and 301,453 in September. Read one way, that’s a successful disruption of a major network in May followed by a steady rebuild. Read another way, it’s proof that a ring this size regenerates about as fast as it gets cut down.
A numbers problem, not just a legal one
MEGA’s appeal to pirates is partly its mainstream scale: a service that has reported well over 200 million registered users over its lifetime blends in far more easily than a niche file-locker that gets shut down within weeks. That scale is also why a single creator, or even a small agency, struggles to keep up without help. Filing one DMCA notice at a time works fine for the odd leaked set shared on a forum; it does not work against a network generating hundreds of thousands of new links a month. That gap is the entire business model behind firms like Takedown Piracy and its competitors, which combine automated monitoring with bulk notice-filing on a retainer basis rather than a per-incident fee.
None of this means DIY takedowns are pointless — most creators will never be targeted at this network’s scale, and a well-written notice sent directly and promptly still gets content pulled. But it does mean the maths changes once leaks become a recurring cost of doing business rather than an occasional nuisance, and it’s worth knowing that dedicated services exist before you spend hours a week doing the same job by hand.
What to do now
- Run a reverse image or video search on your own content monthly, and extend the search beyond Google to MEGA-linking forums and Telegram piracy channels, where most of this traffic actually lives.
- If you find your own content on MEGA, file a takedown directly with MEGA’s own abuse process rather than waiting on a third party — it is legally obliged to act on valid notices, and acting fast limits how far a specific folder link spreads before it’s pulled.
- Use our step-by-step DMCA notice template if you’re filing yourself, and keep a dated, timestamped log of every URL you report as evidence for any future dispute.
- If leaks are a recurring problem rather than an occasional one, price out a dedicated anti-piracy or DMCA monitoring service. Several, including Takedown Piracy, work on a monthly retainer and can realistically cover volumes no solo creator can monitor by hand — check TakedownPiracy.com and comparable services for how they price it.
- Before you panic-react to any single leak report, confirm the content is genuinely yours and genuinely unauthorised — our guide to what’s real and what isn’t in leak panics walks through how to check before you spend money chasing a false alarm.
This is general information, not legal advice — speak to a qualified lawyer if you’re pursuing a takedown or considering legal action over stolen content.
