--- title: "How to Track Where Your Stolen Content Gets Shared Online" description: "How to track where your stolen content is shared: reverse image searches, Google Alerts, searching platforms by your stage name, and keeping a record for notices." canonical_url: "https://adultmodelprotection.com/blog/how-to-track-where-your-stolen-content-gets-shared-online" last_updated: "2026-11-06T04:31:25.892Z" --- ## How Stolen Content Spreads A leaked file can be copied to many sites. Creators commonly report that a leak shows up on several sites, often reposted, cropped or edited, and that links to it are shared on social platforms and in messaging apps. Each copy on each site needs its own removal request (with AMP, Essentials covers up to 100 platform notices a month and Luxe and higher plans are unlimited), so the first job is to know where the copies are. This guide covers the ways you can track your own content yourself, what to record for each copy, and where the limits of tracking by hand are. You do not need to visit leak sites to do any of it: you search for your own content and your own names. ## Reverse Image Search A reverse image search starts from a picture and shows where that picture, or a similar one, appears online. Use one of your own published promotional photos or a thumbnail you posted yourself. Never upload an unpublished intimate image to any search tool. - **Google Lens.** Google runs its image search through Google Lens: you can [search with an image](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?hl=en) from your device to find similar images and the websites that use them. - **TinEye.** TinEye [says](https://tineye.com/faq) it finds exact and altered copies of the image you search for, including copies that have been cropped, colour adjusted, resized, heavily edited or slightly rotated. It does not commonly return merely similar images, so it suits checking for copies of one specific photo. - **Yandex Images.** [Yandex Images](https://images.yandex.com/) is another reverse image search you can try; different search engines can return different results. Search engines do not list every page, so a search will not find every copy. Run the same photo through more than one tool. ![Illustration of a search for copies of a creator's own photos across several websites](/blogs-img/700x420-how-to-monitor-piracy-sites-for-stolen-content.webp) ## Alerts for Your Names [Google Alerts](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en) can email you when new results appear for a search term, including mentions of your name. Set one up for: - your stage name and any other names you use on other platforms, - the titles you give your sets or videos, if they are distinctive. An alert will not catch everything, but it is free and gives you an early signal. ## Searching Social Platforms Creators commonly report that links to leaks are shared on social platforms and in messaging apps, in posts, comments and bio links. Use each platform's own search with your stage name and the titles of your content. Some posts do not stay up for long. On Instagram, story photos and videos [disappear](https://help.instagram.com/1729008150678239/) from Feed, your profile and Direct after 24 hours unless they are added as a highlight. Record a link as soon as you find it. When you find a copy on a platform, use that platform's copyright form. Our guides cover [Reddit](/services/reddit-dmca), [Twitter / X](/services/twitter-x-dmca) and [Telegram](/services/telegram-content-removal). ## Keep a Record for Each Copy For each copy you find, keep: - the link (URL) to the page, - the date you found it, - the page title. Save the link and the date. Do not take screenshots of pages with sexual content and do not download copies: the link is what every removal form asks for. A DMCA notice must identify the material and give information reasonably sufficient for the site to locate it ([17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3)(A)(iii)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512)), which in practice means the link. You do not need to know who uploaded it. ![Steps for tracking your own content: reverse image search of your own published photos on Google Lens, TinEye or Yandex Images; a Google Alert for your stage name; searching social platforms by stage name and titles; recording the link, date and page title of each copy without screenshots or downloads; a separate notice per copy and per search engine; or AMP's team scanning, filing as your agent and checking removals.](/images/blog/blog-how-to-track-where-your-stolen-content-gets-shared.webp) *Search for your own content and names, then record the link to each copy.* Once you have the links, you can file a notice with each site and ask search engines to remove the results. See [how DMCA takedowns work](/blog/how-dmca-takedowns-work-a-creators-complete-guide), our page on [how a DMCA notice works](/services/dmca-takedowns-adult-content), and [search engine de-indexing](/services/search-engine-deindexing). A result removed from search can still exist on the site itself, so the site needs its own notice as well. Adult Model Protection is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. ## The Limits of Tracking by Hand Tracking your own content works for finding public copies of photos you have published. It has limits: - Search engines do not index every page, and private groups cannot be searched from the open web. - A reverse image search works on a still image; a video copy may only turn up through a search for your name or titles. - Each search has to be repeated, because copies that are removed can reappear. For signs that a leak is spreading fast, see [how to detect content leaks before they go viral](/blog/how-to-detect-content-leaks-before-they-go-viral). ![Illustration of a list of removal requests and their status](/blogs-img/700x420-how-to-prevent-your-content-from-appearing-on-tube-sites.webp) ## How Adult Model Protection Tracks Copies You can do all of the above yourself, for free. What Adult Model Protection adds: - **Finding the copies.** On paid plans, our team runs regular scans of Google, Bing and Yandex and more than 500 known leak and piracy sites, reverse image searches on Google and Bing with the content assets you upload, and manual searches by your creator names and aliases. Our team also covers private groups where we can reach them. See [multi-engine scanning](https://docs.adultmodelprotection.com/docs/features/multi-engine-scanning). Your content assets are used only to search for copies and are never shared with third parties. - **Filing as your agent.** AMP files each notice under its own name as your authorized agent, and a person checks every notice before it is sent. - **Removal checks.** We check whether each copy is gone and follow up when it is not. Copies that reappear are found in later scans and get a new notice. - **Your dashboard.** You get a notification when a scan finds a new copy, can submit links you found yourself, and can see each request and its status. Face matching and fingerprinting are in development at AMP and are not yet available. AMP serves adults (18+) only and never identifies who leaked content. The Free plan includes a quarterly web scan and a dashboard preview, with no takedowns. Paid plans add regular scans and takedowns: Essentials covers unlimited search engine de-indexing and up to 100 platform notices a month; Luxe and higher plans add unlimited notices and removals on social media and messengers. See [pricing](/pricing). --- **Want to know where your content is shared?** [Start Free Plan](https://app.adultmodelprotection.com/signup?redirect=/subscribe) for a quarterly web scan, or see [pricing](/pricing) for plans where our team runs regular scans, files notices checked by a person, and checks that each copy is gone.