A compilation upload on youtube.com is usually re-encoded and re-titled, so file-level matching finds nothing and a keyword search for your name may not either. The report needs the watch URLs and your original identified, and a channel posting several of them is a stronger case than any single video.
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 youtube.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for youtube.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not youtube.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 youtube.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 youtube.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Collect the watch URLs and the channel. Record each youtube.com watch URL and the channel that uploaded it, with dates. A channel posting repeatedly is the pattern that makes a report about more than one video.
Note the re-titling. Compilation uploads on youtube.com often drop the creator name from the title. Recording what the title actually says matters, because it explains why your own name searches did not surface it.
File the copyright report with your original named. Pair each youtube.com watch URL with the location of your original. A re-encoded copy is still a copy, and the report needs the original identified to be assessable.
Check the channel's other uploads. One youtube.com channel with a compilation usually has more. Collecting them into one report is both faster and more persuasive than filing on them separately over weeks.
Delist the watch URLs that are indexed. youtube.com watch URLs rank well and outlive removed videos. Where one returns for your name, submit it for delisting as its own request.
Why re-encoding changes what finds a youtube.com upload
A re-encoded video is a different file with the same content. Anything matching on the file itself sees a stranger, which is why compilations survive on youtube.com long after the originals they copied were removed elsewhere.
openDMCA hashes reference images perceptually rather than matching files, so a re-encode that changes every byte still matches on what the frames look like. That is the difference between finding a compilation and never knowing it existed.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open a takedown notice you can copy and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on youtube.com
Compilation uploads on youtube.com are re-encoded, which defeats file-hash matching completely while leaving perceptual image matching intact — the frames still look the same even though not one byte survives. A monitoring service that matches files rather than appearances reports a clean sheet on exactly the surface where the material has been repackaged most heavily.
Frequently asked questions
The video does not use my name anywhere.
That is common on compilations, and it is why keyword monitoring misses them. Matching on how the frames look rather than on the title or the filename is what finds these.
Should I report the channel or the videos?
The videos, with the channel documented. A pattern across several uploads is what turns individual reports into a case about the channel itself.
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, and routes the next round on that evidence.
Build the notice for your own URL — free, no account, nothing uploaded.