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## What is Digital Content Defense?
*Digital Content Defense* or DCD is everything content creators do to defend themselves, their work, and their digital content against unauthorized or illegal activity.
### Reasons to defend your content:
* piracy
* leaks
* fraud
* impersonation
* harassment
* doxxing
==See [[Scenarios]] for help figuring out what to do next.==
### Ways to defend your content:
* Asking whoever misused your content to stop — this often works when it's an honest mistake or when the person didn't expect to be caught
* Sending a legal takedown notice to the site that hosts the content ^[See [[Warnings]] and [[Templates]].]
* Reporting it to search engines ^[This can also help to de-rank the site you're reporting. See [[Search Engine Takedowns]] for instructions.]
* Reporting the content to the service provider that's hosting the content if it violates their community guidelines ^[This works great sometimes and doesn't work at all other times. Success depends on the circumstances, the method of contact, the platform, and more. See [[Platforms]] for detailed guidance.]
==See [[Platforms]] for a thorough list.==
### More
* [[Searching]]
* Keeping records
* [Legal, financial, and safety risks](Warnings)
## Why are you here?
- [[Someone posted my photos or other content online without my permission]]
- [[Someone is pretending to be me online]]
- [[I'm looking for templates]]
- [[I want to know what DMCA is]]
- [[Other]]
## Topics
- [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)]]
- [[Privacy]]
- [[Takedown Service Company Reviews and Comparisons with Feature Tables and Costs]]
- [[Social Media Platforms]]
- 🚨[[Warnings]]
## Common situations
- [[Piracy]] — Someone is posting your content online (ex. torrent sites, Reddit, tube sites)
- [[Impersonation]] — Someone is pretending to be you online (ex. a fake Instagram account or talent booking profile)
- [[Doxxing]] — Someone posted your personal information line (ex. phone number, home address)
- [[Personal content leaked (ex. photos, videos)]] — Someone shared your private content without your permission (ex. ex-partner posted intimate photos online, phone was hacked and contents leaked)
## Tools and more
- [[Templates]] — Including
- DMCA template
- Spreadsheet templates for tracking important information
- Process templates to streamline and automate your DCD
- [[Searching online]] — How to find unauthorized content online, including
- Search engine operators
- Automatic website monitoring
- Alert systems
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