A single image on pinterest.com multiplies: each re-pin is its own object on someone else's board, with its own URL. Removing the original pin does not remove the copies, so the report has to enumerate them, and the enumeration is the work.
Left up, 40 exposed copies work out to an estimated $234 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.
Removal route for pinterest.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for pinterest.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not pinterest.com itself. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed pinterest.com URL.
What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to pinterest.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Find every pin of the image, not just the one you saw. A pinterest.com image is usually pinned to several boards. Each pin is a separate URL and a separate object, and a report naming one leaves the rest in place.
Record the boards as well as the pins. Note which boards hold the copies. A board built around one creator is a different report from a pin that happened to be saved, and only the record distinguishes them.
File the copyright report with your original named. Pair each pinterest.com pin URL with the location of your original image. A report without an identified original is the one that returns nothing actionable.
Enumerate copies before the source is removed. Once the original pin goes, finding its re-pins becomes considerably harder. Collecting them first is what makes the removal complete rather than partial.
Delist the indexed pin and board URLs. pinterest.com pages are indexed aggressively and rank for image searches. Where one returns for your name, submit it for delisting as its own request.
Why one removal is never enough on pinterest.com
Re-pinning copies an image onto another account's board as a new object. A pinterest.com image with fifty re-pins is fifty URLs held by fifty accounts, and removing the source removes one of them.
openDMCA routes every infringing URL through the Removal Graph — a live map of which hosts actually remove content, how fast, and through which channel — so each takedown takes the shortest path that has historically worked for that host, and each re-pin is queued as its own leak rather than as a copy of the first.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open the notice wording openDMCA sends and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on pinterest.com
On pinterest.com the copies are created by the platform's core feature rather than by anyone deliberately redistributing material, which means the accounts holding them are frequently ordinary users who saved an image. The enumeration is still necessary and the report is still correct, and it is worth knowing that the fifty URLs are not fifty adversaries.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to report every pin?
Every pin you want removed, yes, because each is a separate object. Listing them in one report rather than filing separately is what makes the volume manageable.
The original pin is gone but copies remain.
Re-pins are independent objects on other accounts' boards. They survive the source and need their own entries, ideally collected before the source was removed.
Do I have to give my legal name?
A copyright report names a complainant. Filed through openDMCA as your authorized agent, the agent's details appear rather than your home address.
Can removal be promised?
No. openDMCA does not promise removal or a timeline on any platform. It files, records the outcome per route, and uses that to decide the next round.
Build the notice for your own URL — free, no account, nothing uploaded.