Run With This Idea & Make A Fortune

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Okay, barring a serious parole violation I'm coming up on my 3000th post. I'm going to toss out an excellent and easy-to-do business model with an abbreviated plan.

Here it is: DMCA Takedown Notice Service

Piracy is out of control. How many posts have we all seen here where someone is complaining about their product getting jacked and sold by some torrent site? Too many and it seems to be getting worse all the time.

Set up a mini site or get a simple Wordpress theme and offer a service where you serve DMCA Takedown Notices for people. The notice is a standard form letter written to a hosting company. That's it. Here's an article that explains exactly what to do. How To Send A DMCA Takedown Notice

There are lots of ways to go with this. You could establish a membership site with monthly payments. People with lots of products (there are lots of people with lots of products who don't have the time to screw around with DMCA Takedown Notices) can sign up for a bronze, silver, gold, platinum, titanium or whatever your little heart wants to create for membership levels.

Say the bronze service allows a member 3 notices a month, for say $10. The silver, 5 notices for $12 or whatever. Are there people needing that many? Oh, yeah. There are. (These levels are just suggestions)

That's just one way to do it. You'd also want to have a price for a one time notice. Make it really close to the price they'd pay for your lowest priced membership. You could also offer a discount for a full year.

You might want to include a service for your clients where you do searches on your clients' product(s) and just send out the notices for them when you find a violation. Then you submit a report to them showing the client what you've done.

This thing could go viral easily. You could bring your hiney over to fiverr and get a couple of videos made up to help with marketing. There are all kinds of possibilities.

Is there anyone doing this? Yeah, but not many people are taking it to its full potential. Do a search, you'll see the field is wide open.

Now don't just sit there cooing about what a good idea this is. Get off your butt and make it happen. And don't worry about competition. There's a huge market for this outside this forum. Think of all the Affiliate directories with product creators that have been waiting to hear from you and your new service.

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  • Great idea. Someone should do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author digichik
    There was a WSO offered detailing setting up this type of business. It came out about 6 months ago.
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    • Profile picture of the author GMD
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      This actually is a really great idea because it's a niche where there's a need.

      One would just have to learn the ins-and-outs of the whole process, how to implement a system, and then set up some kind of web presence in order to get paying clients.

      Everybody is going to agree that it's a great idea, but I'm sure for the ones that actually take action on it will have a good chance of getting out front and earning some nice money while offering a valuable service for members of the online community.
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  • Profile picture of the author RedShifted
    You know I already tried doing this but wound up wasting like 3 hours and didn't make a dime. It just didn't seem like an effective way to make money.

    I think you really need to be on top of your game, and other products, and you need to work super fast for it to work. Like the minute they go up on blackhat forums you need to know and act immediately. It always seemed a few hours after sending the emails, the links were already down and the people never responded.

    So I began to assume people were just doing it themselves once I notified them.

    I don't know, maybe its just me, but I didn't have any luck with this at all. I should have picked a different niche though as I was only focusing on MMO products, so maybe it works better for other niches idrk.

    -Red
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    • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
      Originally Posted by RedShifted View Post

      You know I already tried doing this but wound up wasting like 3 hours and didn't make a dime. It just didn't seem like an effective way to make money.

      I think you really need to be on top of your game, and other products, and you need to work super fast for it to work. Like the minute they go up on blackhat forums you need to know and act immediately. It always seemed a few hours after sending the emails, the links were already down and the people never responded.

      So I began to assume people were just doing it themselves once I notified them.

      I don't know, maybe its just me, but I didn't have any luck with this at all.

      -Red
      You think three hours is enough time to test something like this? I don't. As for the links being down within hours, that's a good thing, right? Here's where I'm coming from. I know I have products that are being pirated right now. I can send out notices and they'll be down. But before long they'll be back up somewhere else.

      I'd be willing to pay someone to just take care of it for me. It takes time and marketing effort to get the word out there. It ain't going to happen in three hours or three days or even three weeks. But if someone gets serious about it and acually puts in marketing effort, it will work.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Hi

    Someone does offer this service. For a monthly fee they will monitor your products/trademarks online and automatically send out 3 levels of enforcement starting with contacting the owner to issuing DMCA to ISP/host. They provide a monthly report of all activity.

    It was something like $97 a month. I read about the service in a WSO about something else- maybe product creation.

    I can't remember the link or site but I did go check it out and it looked to be incredibly cheap for what the woman actually did for you.

    Mahlon
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    • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      Hi

      Someone does offer this service. For a monthly fee they will monitor your products/trademarks online and automatically send out 3 levels of enforcement starting with contacting the owner to issuing DMCA to ISP/host. They provide a monthly report of all activity.

      It was something like $97 a month. I read about the service in a WSO about something else- maybe product creation.

      I can't remember the link or site but I did go check it out and it looked to be incredibly cheap for what the woman actually did for you.

      Mahlon
      Yep. And there's room for others as well. Before posting this I did a search for DMCA takedown services and there aren't many.
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      • Profile picture of the author onSubie
        Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

        Yep. And there's room for others as well. Before posting this I did a search for DMCA takedown services and there aren't many.
        No doubt! The one I checked out seemed to be a one person operation.

        A small (outsourced) team could probably do this on autopilot fairly cheaply:

        1. Run a set series of google searches and searches known pirate sources
        2. Send 1st level response to found violations
        a) contact owner by email or b) use standard process for known isp/host/site
        3. Follow up on 1st level non-responses with 2nd level response
        4. Escalate any still open non-compliant sites
        5. Repeat

        Most of those activities don't involve more than doing a search or sending and email.

        With experience you would build up a list of notorious sites. You would also build a professional working relationship with service providers like HostGator. This would make enable you to refine your processes.

        Mahlon
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        • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
          Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

          No doubt! The one I checked out seemed to be a one person operation.

          A small (outsourced) team could probably do this on autopilot fairly cheaply:

          1. Run a set series of google searches and searches known pirate sources
          2. Send 1st level response to found violations
          a) contact owner by email or b) use standard process for known isp/host/site
          3. Follow up on 1st level non-responses with 2nd level response
          4. Escalate any still open non-compliant sites
          5. Repeat

          Most of those activities don't involve more than doing a search or sending and email.

          With experience you would build up a list of notorious sites. You would also build a professional working relationship with service providers like HostGator. This would make enable you to refine your processes.

          Mahlon
          The actual work is simple. You could start with a single VA while handling the marketing and promotion yourself. This could easily be a six figure gig. Of course, it would take work.
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          • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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            Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

            Of course, it would take work.
            Oh, never mind. Not for me. I'm surprised that the market for this doesn't really exist right now though. Threads pop up all the time about DMCA's and all that crap. Might be something I start in the future, so anyone who wants to jump in better do so now before I get there .
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Ten
    I do not think that that business model is something that I could be too passionate about. Good idea though!
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  • Profile picture of the author DianaHeuser
    Absolutely stunning idea Charles

    Sheeze, it would be a breeze to set this up.

    Note to self: Focus Di, focus. You shalt not take on another project until you are done with the current ones. You shalt not!

    Di
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    • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
      Originally Posted by DianaHeuser View Post

      Absolutely stunning idea Charles

      Sheeze, it would be a breeze to set this up.

      Note to self: Focus Di, focus. You shalt not take on another project until you are done with the current ones. You shalt not!

      Di
      Exactly. This is why I'm not doing it. But it is super easy. I'll admit, it's not sexy at all but the money is definitely there. The thing is, this is one field where there is no clear cut leader yet. No one "owns" this market. I've got a feeling the person who really runs with it will go in stealth mode.
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  • Profile picture of the author gax13
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    Interesting idea. Maybe I'll try.
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  • Profile picture of the author mosthost
    You can get sued for filing false DMCA complaints. This could be a real legal morass for someone to walk into if they're not careful. How can you be sure your 'client' really holds the copyright?
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    • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
      Originally Posted by mosthost View Post

      You can get sued for filing false DMCA complaints. This could be a real legal morass for someone to walk into if they're not careful. How can you be sure your 'client' really holds the copyright?
      Well, since the service would be delivering the notice on behalf of the client claiming the violation any suit would be on his dumb ass if he was lying.
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      • Profile picture of the author Joseph Robinson
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        Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

        Well, since the service would be delivering the notice on behalf of the client claiming the violation any suit would be on his dumb ass if he was lying.
        This, it's like those guys for hire that go and serve people in the outside world with court papers. They aren't responsible for your case and whatever the hell is in it. Their job is to just make sure that you get the papers.
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  • Sounds like a good idea, but it's something that works if you're willing to be pretty much bored half the time. In other words, you must like it for it to work and no, 3 hours isn't enough of a test.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMDealBox
    This has a lot of potential I can see issues and i can see solutions to those issues...However for this to work one needs: dedication/Knowledge/Will/resourcs to hold over until this brings money.

    ...too bad i am involved into other activities now...
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
    LOL! Funny!

    I had the idea and planned to do it back in March of this year, after my first WSO, and chasing all the idiots who were either stealing my product or breaking the PLR rights.

    I got good at getting these taken down fast, and having Google de-index any URL that had my copyrighted product being given away on it.

    I not only came up with the best way to do it, and the best wording that works for websites, but even other ideas on how to get it done, and find out who is stealing.

    I may do it still, since I have a head start, the main problem is the workload, organization and the amount of time to get this done, VERSUS the amount of money people are willing to pay.
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  • Profile picture of the author prem khaira
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    Very interesting! I wish i could fit this in my busy schedule...

    Maybe soon.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    LOL I just came across this...

    These guys do it all on auto-pilot for you for $9.95/month for 1 product up to $49.95/m for 10 products.

    This is not an affiliate link. The video of how the service works looks very impressive.

    Piracy Killer

    Mahlon

    Edit: It may be the product mentioned above as I think I saw it in a WF signature link.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stripe
    Very interesting idea.
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    • Profile picture of the author sallan
      Hi,

      I'm new to the forum. This is an interesting idea, dmca.com offers a well developed service for this but it is very expensive.

      The Pirate Killer software as mentioned earlier looks a bit risky. DMCA notices open the way for counter claims and if you have filed an incorrect notice you are possibly liable for that. Also DMCA is only relevant in the US so the software is not going to help with content hosted outside the US . Many other countries have similar legislation but have different procedures that need to be followed.
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