How to File a DMCA Takedown on Xvideos (2026 Guide)

To remove infringing content from Xvideos, submit the platform's online copyright form at info.xvideos.com/takedown. Xvideos warns that emailing a notice instead of using that form delays processing. Its designated Copyright Agent is reachable at content@xvideos.com. For non-consensual intimate images, the Take It Down Act requires removal within 48 hours of a valid, signed removal request, independent of copyright ownership.

What Is a DMCA Takedown on Xvideos?

A DMCA takedown is a formal legal notice sent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, specifically 17 U.S.C. § 512, demanding that a platform remove content that infringes your copyright.

When you send a valid notice to Xvideos, the platform is legally required to remove the infringing material "expeditiously" to retain its safe harbor protection from copyright liability.

Xvideos is one of the world's largest adult video platforms. Its Terms of Service identify the operator as WebGroup Czech Republic, a.s., at Krakovska 1366/25, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic. Its copyright takedown page names the designated Copyright Agent as Dr. Daniel Kötz, Attorney-at-Law, Rosenstr. 11a, 40479 Düsseldorf, Germany. So while the platform runs a DMCA notice-and-counter-notice process, your notice is routed to a European agent rather than a US corporate address.

Like any user-generated content site, Xvideos relies on the Section 512 safe harbor, meaning it avoids direct liability for user uploads as long as it complies with takedown requests.

Understanding how the process works, and what rights you have, matters whether you are a copyright owner or someone whose content was uploaded without consent. Those are two different paths at Xvideos, and using the wrong form slows you down.

Legal Framework: 17 U.S.C. § 512

The notice-and-takedown system created by Section 512 of the Copyright Act is the foundation of every DMCA takedown. To maintain safe harbor protection, an online service provider like Xvideos must:

• Designate a registered DMCA agent with the U.S. Copyright Office
• Post that agent's contact information publicly on its website
• Remove infringing material expeditiously upon receiving a valid notice
• Notify the uploader that content has been removed
• Restore content if a valid counter-notification is received and the original complainant does not file suit within 10 to 14 business days
• Adopt and enforce a repeat infringer policy, including account termination for repeat offenders

Failure to comply with these requirements causes the platform to lose its safe harbor protection and exposes it to direct copyright liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512.

How to File a DMCA Takedown Notice on Xvideos

There are two channels for a copyright complaint, and Xvideos is explicit about which one it prefers.

Method 1: Use the Xvideos Copyright Takedown Form

Submit your notice through the online form at info.xvideos.com/takedown. The form walks you through the required fields, and Xvideos' own takedown page states that sending your request by email instead of using the form "will delay our processing time and may impact its accuracy as well."

The platform's Terms of Service point copyright complainants to this same form, so treat it as the default route.

Method 2: Email the Designated Copyright Agent

Xvideos designates Dr. Daniel Kötz, Attorney-at-Law, Rosenstr. 11a, 40479 Düsseldorf, Germany, as its Copyright Agent, reachable at content@xvideos.com.

Use email when you need a written record addressed to the designated agent, or when the form cannot accommodate your submission. Expect it to be slower than the form.

Watch out: abuse@xvideos.com is widely repeated online as the Xvideos DMCA address. It appears on neither the platform's current copyright takedown page nor its Terms of Service, and neither document designates it for anything. Send copyright notices to the designated agent address above, or use the form.

Your notice must contain all required statutory elements. An incomplete notice may be rejected, and sending a knowingly false notice exposes you to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

You can also use our Free DMCA Takedown Notice Builder to draft a properly formatted notice before sending it.

What Your DMCA Notice Must Contain

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a valid DMCA takedown notice must include all of the following five elements:

1. Your identity and signature. Your full legal name and a physical or electronic signature. If you are an authorized agent, state that clearly.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work. Describe the original work you own, for example, a video you filmed on a given date and first published at a given URL.
3. Identification of the infringing material. Provide the exact URL or URLs on Xvideos where the infringing content appears.
4. Your contact information. A mailing address, telephone number, and email address where you can be reached.
5. Two sworn statements. First, a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by you, your agent, or the law. Second, a statement under penalty of perjury that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner's behalf.

Missing any of these elements can invalidate your notice. Be precise and complete.

What Happens After You File

Once Xvideos receives your notice, the typical sequence is:

Step 1. Review. Xvideos reviews the notice for completeness. Section 512 requires expeditious removal but fixes no number of days, and processing times vary with the volume and quality of the submission.

Step 2. Removal. If the notice is valid, Xvideos removes the content and notifies the uploader that a copyright claim has been received.

Step 3. Counter-notification window. The uploader has the right to file a counter-notification. If they do, you have 10 to 14 business days to file a lawsuit in federal court. If you do not file suit, Xvideos may restore the content.

Step 4. Account action. Under Section 512(i), Xvideos must terminate the accounts of repeat infringers to keep its safe harbor. Multiple takedown notices against the same uploader can result in permanent account suspension.

The Counter-Notification Process

If your content was removed from Xvideos in response to a DMCA notice that you believe was filed in error or in bad faith, you can submit a counter-notification.

A valid counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) must include:

• Your name, address, telephone number, and electronic signature
• Identification of the material that was removed and its location before removal
• A statement under penalty of perjury that the material was removed by mistake or misidentification
• Your consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address

Once Xvideos receives a valid counter-notification, it must wait 10 to 14 business days before restoring the content, giving the original complainant time to seek injunctive relief. If no court action is filed, the content may be reinstated.

Important: Filing a false counter-notification exposes you to liability for damages, costs, and attorney's fees under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

Special Considerations: Non-Consensual Intimate Images

Not every unwanted video on Xvideos is a copyright issue. If a video was uploaded without your consent, particularly intimate or sexual content, you have more than one legal avenue, and the copyright form is usually the wrong one.

How to Report a Non-Consensual Video to Xvideos

Xvideos runs a separate Abuse Reporting Form (Excluding copyright) for complaints that are not copyright claims. Its categories include Consent (harassment / revenge porn / upload without consent), alongside categories for child sexual abuse, a minor under 18, stolen private content, and spam.

The form invites you to report "including anonymously if you wish," and every category on it is labeled as one that "may also be submitted anonymously." Read that precisely, because it is narrower than it sounds. On the current form the Name field is optional, but an email address is mandatory and has to be validated before the report goes through. Anonymous here means you do not have to give your legal name. It does not mean you can report without giving the platform a way to reach you.

The other required fields are the URL or URLs of the video, one category, a written explanation of the problem, and a box confirming your good-faith belief that what you have submitted is accurate and complete.

Xvideos states that complaints sent through this form "will be evaluated and resolved within five (5) business days."

Anonymity has a trade-off worth understanding before you choose it. A report you submit without your name and signature is a platform-policy complaint, handled on that five-business-day commitment. That is a legitimate route, and for many people it is the right one. What it does not do is start the federal 48-hour clock, which attaches only to a request carrying the four elements listed under "What a Take It Down Act Request Must Contain" below.

Practical caution: do not delete your own copies before reporting. Screenshots, URLs, upload dates, and any messages from the person who posted it are the evidence a later civil claim or police report depends on, and they disappear when the video comes down.

The Take It Down Act

The TAKE IT DOWN Act was signed into law on May 19, 2025. It:

• Criminalizes the non-consensual publication of intimate images, including AI-generated deepfakes
• Requires covered platforms to remove such images within 48 hours of receiving a valid removal request
• Imposes criminal penalties of up to 2 years imprisonment for offenders, and up to 3 years if a minor is depicted

The statute gave platforms one year to stand up a compliant notice-and-removal process. That deadline passed on May 19, 2026, so this is no longer a future obligation. The Federal Trade Commission now enforces the requirement against covered platforms.

This law operates independently of copyright. Even if you hold no registered copyright in a video, you can use the Take It Down Act to demand removal from a covered platform.

What a Take It Down Act Request Must Contain

The 48-hour duty does not attach to every complaint a platform receives. Under Section 3(a)(3) of the Act, the clock starts on a "valid removal request" made through the process the statute requires covered platforms to provide. Section 3(a)(1)(B) requires that request to include, in writing, all four of the following:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the person depicted, or of an authorized person acting on their behalf.
2. Identification of the intimate visual depiction, plus information reasonably sufficient for the platform to locate it. In practice, the exact URL.
3. A brief good-faith statement that the depiction is not consensual, including any information that helps the platform determine it was published without your consent.
4. Information sufficient to enable the platform to contact you, or the authorized person acting for you.

A submission carrying no name and no signature cannot satisfy the first element, so it does not start the 48-hour clock however serious the underlying report is. If you want that clock running, sign the request, identify the video, say plainly that it was published without your consent, and give contact details. You do not have to handle this personally. The statute expressly allows an authorized person to submit and sign on your behalf, which is how many victims file through a lawyer or a victim advocate.

If you submit a signed, identified request that meets those four elements, the 48-hour duty runs on its own clock regardless of the five-day turnaround the platform advertises. Treat the five-day figure as the platform's own service commitment, not as your legal deadline.

If a covered platform ignores a valid request, or offers no removal process at all, the FTC takes reports at TakeItDown.ftc.gov. The agency says it launched that channel specifically to hear about platforms that fail to take down intimate images shared without consent.

15 U.S.C. § 6851: Federal Civil Action

The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 created a federal civil cause of action for the non-consensual disclosure of intimate images. Under 15 U.S.C. § 6851, a victim can:

• Sue the person who disclosed the images in federal district court
• Recover actual damages or liquidated damages of $150,000, plus attorney's fees
• Obtain injunctive relief ordering the defendant to remove the content

This remedy runs against the uploader, not the platform. It works alongside a DMCA or Take It Down Act notice to Xvideos, not instead of one.

State Revenge Porn Laws

Non-consensual pornography is a crime in the large majority of US states. Most statutes treat it as at least a misdemeanor, with penalties including fines and up to a year in jail; some states classify it as a felony for repeat offenses or where a minor is depicted. Penalties and definitions vary by state, so check your own state's statute rather than assuming the general pattern applies.

You can report non-consensual intimate images to local law enforcement whether or not you own a copyright in the material. The DOJ Office on Violence Against Women publishes a plain-language guide to your rights and options.

Federal Law on Adult Content: 18 U.S.C. § 2257

18 U.S.C. § 2257 imposes record-keeping obligations on producers of sexually explicit content. Any primary or secondary producer of visual depictions of actual people engaged in sexually explicit conduct must:

• Verify that every performer is 18 or older by examining a government-issued photo ID
• Maintain records of each performer's legal name, date of birth, and any stage names
• Affix a statement on every copy of the content identifying where those records are kept
• Make those records available for inspection by the DOJ Criminal Division

Penalties for violation: up to 5 years imprisonment for a first offense. For a subsequent offense, § 2257 sets a term of "not more than 10 years but not less than 2 years," so a repeat conviction carries a mandatory minimum as well as a ceiling.

These obligations fall on producers. Where a hosting platform sits is a contested line rather than a settled exemption, so it is worth reading the actual definition before assuming you are outside it.

28 C.F.R. § 75.1(c) defines "producer" to cover both primary and secondary producers. The secondary-producer definition has two branches. The first reaches anyone who produces, publishes, duplicates or reissues "other matter intended for commercial distribution" containing such a depiction. The second, written without that commercial-distribution qualifier, reaches any person "who inserts on a computer site or service a digital image of, or otherwise manages the sexually explicit content of a computer site or service that contains" such a depiction.

The regulation then lists activities that keep a person outside the definition, and the relevant one is narrower than "we only host it." A producer "does not include" persons whose activities are limited to "the transmission, storage, retrieval, hosting, formatting, or translation ... of a communication, without selection or alteration of the content of the communication."

So the question is what a site actually does, not what it calls itself. Activity limited to hosting sits inside the carve-out. Selecting, categorizing, promoting, or monetizing what is hosted, which is what a revenue-sharing content-partner program does, is where the argument starts.

If you create adult content and file DMCA notices, make sure your own productions comply with § 2257. If you run your own user-generated adult site, do not assume that hosting alone exempts you, and treat your § 2257 position as a question for counsel rather than a settled answer. A record-keeping failure is a federal crime carrying the penalties above.

Pending Legislation: The STOP CSAM Act

The STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S.1829, 119th Congress) is pending in the Senate. It is a bill, not law, and it creates no right you can exercise today.

The Senate Judiciary Committee reported the bill with an amendment on June 26, 2025, and it now sits on the Senate calendar. In the text as reported, it would:

• Require a provider that obtains actual knowledge of apparent child sexual abuse material on its service to report it to the NCMEC CyberTipline as soon as reasonably possible, and in any event within 60 days of obtaining that knowledge
• Create a new 18 U.S.C. § 2255A letting a victim sue a provider of an interactive computer service for the intentional, knowing, or reckless hosting or storing of that material, or for promoting or aiding and abetting the underlying offenses, recovering actual damages or liquidated damages of $300,000, plus costs and attorney fees

Bill text changes as a measure moves, and a reported bill is still not law. Read the current version before relying on any specific deadline, damages figure, or liability provision attributed to it.

Proposals of this kind affect adult platforms disproportionately, because legislators and regulators have repeatedly named platforms in that space in connection with CSAM concerns.

When to Involve Law Enforcement Instead of Filing a DMCA Notice

A DMCA takedown is the right tool for copyright infringement. In some situations you should contact law enforcement first, or instead:

• The content depicts a minor. This is a federal crime. Report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children CyberTipline and the FBI, and use the minor category on the Xvideos abuse form rather than the copyright form.
• The content was shared to harass or extort you. Many states have sextortion and cyberstalking statutes. File a police report.
• You are the victim of a deepfake. The Take It Down Act provides a federal criminal remedy, and the platform notice-and-removal duty is now in force.
• The uploader is impersonating you. Platform impersonation reports and law enforcement referrals fit better than a DMCA notice.

Be realistic about what a takedown does. DMCA notices deal only with copyright. They do not punish the uploader, and they do not stop the same file from being re-uploaded to Xvideos under a new account or mirrored to other sites, which is why documenting the original upload matters more than the speed of the first removal.

Fair Use Considerations

Before filing a takedown notice, verify that the content is actually infringing and is not protected as fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107. Courts weigh four factors:

1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether it is commercial and whether it is transformative
2. The nature of the copyrighted work
3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used
4. The effect of the use on the market for the original

Filing a DMCA notice against content that is clearly fair use can produce a successful counter-notification and expose you to liability under § 512(f) for material misrepresentation.

Tips for Adult Content Creators

If you create adult content professionally, take these steps to protect your work:

Register your copyrights. Register original works with the U.S. Copyright Office. Statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work for willful infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 504(c), plus attorney's fees, are available only to owners who registered in time. A registration filed after a leak can come too late for those remedies, so register your catalogue as you publish it rather than after you find a problem.

Watermark your content. Embed visible and invisible watermarks in every release. Watermarks create a paper trail that identifies the source of a leak and supports an infringement claim.

Document your creative process. Keep dated backups, raw files, and production records. These establish that you are the original author if someone challenges your notice.

Renew your DMCA agent registration. If you run your own platform, a designated agent registration expires and becomes invalid three years after it is registered with the Copyright Office unless you renew it, under 37 C.F.R. § 201.38(c)(4). Renewal means amending the designation or resubmitting it unchanged. Let it lapse and you can lose safe harbor.

Monitor for infringement. Use reverse image and video search on a regular schedule. The sooner you act, the less the content spreads.

Consult an attorney for serial infringers. If the same person repeatedly re-uploads your work after takedowns, a federal copyright lawsuit may be warranted. Repeat infringement involving registered works can support significant damages.

For a step-by-step guide to drafting your notice, see What is a DMCA Takedown? and our Free DMCA Takedown Notice Builder.

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