Copyright notice-and-takedown
US hosts and platforms keep their safe harbour only if they expeditiously remove material identified in a valid notice from the copyright owner or an authorised agent.
17 U.S.C. §512(c) ↗Enterprise and rights-holders
Brand protection service for rights-holders and brands
Nullify's brand protection service removes pirated live-event streams, IPTV services reselling your channels, phishing sites that impersonate your brand, and counterfeit listings. Every action uses a documented legal route: DMCA and EU DSA notices, platform policies, host and registrar abuse desks, and search delisting, never technical disruption. Programmes are scoped per engagement, and you pay only when it's removed.
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Custom engagement
Pay on success ETA · Scoped per programme
Scope
What we can — and can’t — remove
We remove
- Pirated live streams of sports and pay-per-view events
- IPTV services and resellers distributing your channels without a licence
- Phishing sites and lookalike domains that impersonate your brand
- Fake social accounts and ads impersonating your company or its staff
- Counterfeit product listings on marketplaces and standalone shops
- Pirated copies of your software, games, films or publications
- Search results that send users to infringing or phishing pages
We won’t remove
- Lawful competitors, comparative advertising and parody
- Criticism, reviews and journalism about your brand, including negative coverage
- Resale of genuine goods that breaks no law or marketplace rule
- Technical measures of any kind: no DDoS, no hacking, no interference with servers. Only legal notices and abuse reports.
- Cases with no valid legal ground. We only take cases that have one, and tell you up front if one needs a court order.
How it works
How we get it removed
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Scope the programme
We map what a brand protection service needs to cover for you: the events, channels, domains, marks and marketplaces at stake, the rights you hold in each territory, and who is authorised to act. Each target type gets a documented legal route before anything is sent.
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Verify every target
Before filing, we confirm the infringing stream, domain or listing, the right it breaches, and who hosts, registers or sells it. Nothing is filed on a guess, which protects you from notices that overreach.
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File and escalate
Notices go to platforms, hosts, CDNs, registrars and marketplaces under the DMCA, the EU DSA and their own policies, with search delisting alongside. Hosts that ignore notices are escalated up the chain.
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A record of every action
Each removal is logged with the legal route used, the channel and the date, so legal and compliance teams can audit the programme. You pay only when it's removed. If we can't remove it, you don't pay — any deposit is refunded in full.
Legal grounds
The routes we file under
Infrastructure abuse policies
Hosting providers, CDNs and domain registrars enforce abuse policies covering phishing, fraud, malware and illegal content; ICANN-accredited registrars must investigate abuse reports they receive.
ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement §3.18 ↗Community Guidelines & Terms
Every major platform prohibits harassment, impersonation, privacy violations, non-consensual imagery and fake engagement — and runs formal legal and privacy request channels beyond the public report button.
In the glossary →EU notice-and-action
Hosting services operating in the EU must offer a way to report illegal content, process each notice diligently and explain their decision — including when they refuse.
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Art. 16 ↗Search removal requests
Google removes certain results from Search on request: doxxing content and personal contact details, non-consensual intimate imagery, results from sites with exploitative removal practices, and content subject to valid legal requests.
Google Search Help — removal policies ↗Already reported it?
The host ignored our notices. What next?
Pirate streams, IPTV panels and phishing kits are often placed with hosts that ignore notices, so the next step is the companies they depend on. A CDN's abuse process can identify the real host. The domain registrar must investigate abuse reports under its ICANN agreement. Marketplaces and app stores enforce their own IP policies. For services operating in the EU, a DSA notice obliges the host to decide and explain its reasons. Search engines can delist infringing and phishing URLs in parallel, which cuts traffic before the source comes down. Where only a court order will work, such as a blocking injunction, we tell you up front.
A brand protection service for live events and IPTV
A pirated live stream does most of its damage while the event is on. Notices have to reach the party that can act within the broadcast window, usually the platform or host serving the stream itself, not the site that embeds it. Preparation decides speed: rights confirmed per territory, the filer authorised, and the likely platforms and hosts known before kick-off.
IPTV piracy is a service, not a single link. Effective action targets what the service runs on: the hosts serving the streams, the domains and storefronts selling subscriptions, and the app listings that distribute it. Each needs its own legal ground and its own channel, and each is documented.
Phishing, impersonation and counterfeits: the route for each
Brand abuse rarely sits in one place. A phishing site breaks host and registrar abuse policies almost everywhere and often copies your logos and page text, which adds a copyright route. Counterfeit listings come down through the marketplace's own IP complaint process, based on your registered trademark or the copyright in your product images.
- Pirated live streams: notice to the platform or host carrying the source stream, under the DMCA or the DSA
- IPTV services: abuse reports to hosts and registrars, plus notices to the hosts carrying the streams
- Phishing and lookalike domains: host and registrar abuse policies, plus Google's phishing report so browsers warn users
- Counterfeit listings: the marketplace's IP complaint process, per listing
- Impersonating accounts and ads: platform impersonation and IP reports, with DSA notices in the EU
- Infringing pages in search: Google's copyright removal request, URL by URL
Documented legal routes, never technical disruption
Every action in a programme names its legal basis and the channel it went through. That matters for rights-holders: under DMCA §512(f), a sender who knowingly misrepresents infringement can be liable for damages, and notices that overreach invite counter-notices and scrutiny.
Technical measures such as DDoS attacks or hacking are unlawful whatever the target. We don't use them, and we don't act against lawful competitors, critics or journalists. Website takedown applies only to sites that are themselves unlawful: piracy of your content, phishing, impersonation and fraud.
Proof, not promises
What you receive
- Published case files on live pay-per-view piracy, IPTV piracy and phishing
- Every action logged with its legal route, channel and date
- Legal notices and abuse reports only; no technical disruption
- You pay only when it's removed; any deposit is refunded in full
You pay only when it’s removed. If we can’t remove it, you don’t pay — any deposit is refunded in full.
Case files
Related operations
Operation
Calcio
Unlicensed IPTV services retransmitting Serie A matches were reported to the hosts and platforms supporting them across two matchdays.
OperationLive Fire
Unauthorised re-streams of a live combat-sports pay-per-view were reported to the hosts carrying them while the event was still on air.
OperationPost Italiane
A live phishing page impersonating Poste Italiane was reported to its host and registrar under their abuse policies and taken down.
Questions
Frequently asked
What does a brand protection service do?
It finds content that infringes or abuses your brand, such as pirated streams, phishing sites, counterfeit listings and impersonating accounts, and gets it removed through platforms, hosts, registrars, marketplaces and search engines. Software-first services centre on automated detection. We centre on removal, with a documented legal route for every action.
How can we stop live-stream piracy of our matches or events?
Prepare before the event: confirm your rights per territory, authorise who files, and know which platforms and hosts tend to carry streams. During the event, send notices to the host or platform serving the source stream rather than the page embedding it. Afterwards, remove and delist the recordings that remain.
Who can take down a phishing site impersonating our company?
The site's hosting provider and its domain registrar can, under their abuse policies, and ICANN-accredited registrars must investigate the abuse reports they receive. We identify both, even behind a CDN, file with evidence of the impersonation, and report the URL to Google so browsers and search stop sending users to it.
Can you remove counterfeit listings from marketplaces?
Yes, through each marketplace's intellectual-property complaint process, which relies on a registered trademark or on copyright in the images and descriptions being copied. We file per listing with the evidence the marketplace asks for. Genuine goods resold lawfully are not counterfeits, and we won't target them.
Do you take down pirate sites with DDoS or other technical measures?
No. Every removal goes through a legal notice, a platform channel, an abuse report to a host, CDN or registrar, or a search-engine request. Technical disruption is unlawful, exposes the rights-holder to liability, and is not something we offer.
How is an enterprise programme priced?
Each programme is scoped around the events, domains, marks and markets involved, and quoted after we review them. You pay only when it's removed. If we can't remove it, you don't pay — any deposit is refunded in full.
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