openDMCA

    Migrating from Rulta

    Leaving Rulta takes about an hour and costs at most one overlapping month, because Rulta bills monthly with no contract. Stage names, your domain whitelist and your own URL list all carry over. Takedown history does not: Rulta publishes no export, so its record of what was sent stays with Rulta.

    What moves, what does not, and what it costs when leaving Rulta
    FeatureCarries overTime it takesWhat it costs
    Your stage namesYes5 minutes — one to four names, depending on your Rulta tierFree
    Your own and your collaborators' domainsYes15 minutes, and the step people skipFree, and it prevents notices against your own pages
    Your own list of leak URLsYes10 minutes to paste in as manual submissionsFree
    Takedown history and per-URL outcomesNoNot transferable at any effortRulta publishes no export path for takedown history
    Notices already sent, and repliesNoNot transferable at any effortThe real loss
    Search de-listings already grantedYes — a granted de-listing stays granted; it is Google's record, not the vendor'sNo action neededFree
    Scheduled scans and automationNoRebuilt on the new service in a few minutesFree
    Overlapping subscriptionMonthly billing with no contract, so at most one overlapping monthTime it to a renewal dateUp to one month of both — $139 to $324 depending on the tier you are on

    Choose Rulta, and stay where you are if…

    • The new service's free scan finds fewer leaks than Rulta's dashboard shows. That is the test, and it outranks every price on this site. If openDMCA finds less on your own stage name, do not switch — nothing else on this page matters.
    • You are on Legend and using Telegram takedown, copyright registration or reverse image search. Two of those three do not exist at openDMCA at any price, so switching costs you capability rather than saving you money.
    • You have one stage name and Rulta is working. At one username the per-username multiplier never fires, you are paying $139 for the deepest public track record in this category, and a $110 monthly saving is not a reason to disrupt something that is doing its job.
    • Your manager or agency negotiated an agency rate. Rulta advertises discounts up to 50% for roster owners; a rate you already hold can beat any published price, and no page here can tell you whether yours does.

    Rulta

    Best for: Staying, if you have one stage name or you are actively using a Legend-tier capability.

    Pricing reality: Rulta bills monthly with no contract at $139 for one username, $184 for two and $324 for four. That is the exposure of a badly timed switch: at most one duplicated month at your current tier. There is no cancellation fee published and no annual lock unless you took the yearly option.

    What it does better: Rulta keeps a live chat channel and describes queue-based support, so the practical experience of cancelling is likely to involve a human who answers. openDMCA's cancellation is self-serve from the dashboard, which is faster and is also nobody.

    What makes people leave: The bill scales with your stage names rather than your leak volume, and the step from two names to three is $140 a month because there is no three-username tier rulta.com on Rulta

    Verdict: The switch is low-risk and reversible. The irreversible part is the takedown history, which is why the export step below comes before the cancellation step.

    The objections worth taking seriously

    Does any of this work, or is it emails into a void?
    Some hosts never comply, and openDMCA does not pretend otherwise. Instead it measures each host's removal rate over 90 days and fast-paths hosts below 25% compliance, with at least five resolved samples, straight to search de-listing rather than burning two email rounds on them. The manual version of the same process, published in full
    Will filing put my legal name in front of the people who leaked me?
    A valid notice has to identify a complainant, and openDMCA is the named agent on it rather than your home address. Nothing about your identity handling is left to a promise — the security page describes what openDMCA stores about you and where it goes. How openDMCA handles creator identity and account data
    Will the charge match the price on the page, and can I actually cancel?
    Every openDMCA price on the pricing page is read from the same config that drives Stripe checkout, so the number you read is the number you are charged. Cancellation is self-serve from the dashboard, with no retention call and no ticket. The openDMCA cancellation and refund terms

    The hour, in order, and the spreadsheet you should not throw away

    First, and this is the whole point of this page: keep the spreadsheet. If you have been tracking leak URLs and the dates you reported them, on a Sunday night, in a sheet you built yourself — that sheet is not embarrassing and it is not obsolete. It is the only portable record of your own case. Rulta publishes no export of takedown history, so the moment you cancel, your sheet becomes the only copy of what happened. Every vendor in this category, openDMCA included, will imply that automation makes it unnecessary. It does not. It makes it the thing the automation starts from.

    Minutes 0-10: write down every stage name Rulta was covering. Check the account rather than your memory — if you are on Premier or Legend you may be covering names you added and forgot.

    Minutes 10-25: build the whitelist. Your own site, your link-in-bio host, every studio and network you have collaborated with, every platform you licensed content to. Rulta lists whitelisting as a Pro core feature so you may already have this list inside Rulta; copy it out. Load it into the new service before the first scan, not after the first wrong notice.

    Minutes 25-40: run the new service's free scan on your main name. Compare the count to what Rulta's dashboard shows. If the new one finds fewer, stop here and stay. This step is free and it is the only one that answers the actual question.

    Minutes 40-55: paste your URL list in as manual submissions. They enter the same queue as scanned results, which means the eight months of Sunday nights become the new service's starting state rather than something you leave behind.

    Minute 55: cancel, at the right moment. Rulta publishes no cancellation route or refund position on its public pages, so treat the renewal date as the deadline and start the cancellation a few days before it rather than on the day. Keep whatever confirmation you get.

    For what the two bills actually look like side by side, the numbers are at Rulta's published prices at each stage-name count, and the capability comparison is at openDMCA and Rulta compared.

    What happens to your pasted URLs once they are in openDMCA

    A pasted URL is not treated as a lesser citizen than a scanned one. It enters the same queue and inherits the same routing, which is the reason the spreadsheet is worth carrying rather than archiving.

    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. Your eight-month-old link to a host that has since stopped responding does not get a fresh email round; it gets fast-pathed to search de-listing, because the corpus already knows that host resolves below 25% over ninety days across at least five resolved samples.

    The URLs you have already had removed are also worth pasting in. openDMCA re-checks removed URLs on a daily sweep, so a link that came back six days after Rulta closed it reopens as a new case rather than sitting in your sheet marked done. That resurrection behaviour is the single most common reason a creator's own records and a vendor's dashboard stop agreeing.

    What you lose by moving, stated plainly. Rulta's record of every notice it sent for you, and its replies. That is not recoverable and openDMCA cannot import it. You also lose a vendor with 140 public reviews and gain one with none. Both of those are real costs and neither is offset by a price.

    The estimate below assumes 190 live copies at the point of a switch, which is a typical backlog for a creator who has been paying someone for a year.

    Left up, 190 exposed copies work out to an estimated $1,111 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.

    Frequently asked questions

    How long does it take to switch away from Rulta?

    About an hour of actual work: five minutes on stage names, fifteen on your domain whitelist, fifteen running a comparison scan, fifteen pasting your URL list in, and a few minutes to cancel. The scheduling around a renewal date matters more than the hour does.

    Will I lose my takedown history if I leave Rulta?

    Yes. Rulta publishes no export path for takedown history, so the record of which notices were sent and what came of them stays with Rulta. Your own list of URLs is the part that moves, which is why it is worth copying out before you cancel.

    Do I have to cancel Rulta before starting somewhere else?

    No, and running both for a few weeks is the better test. Duplicate notices to one host are de-duplicated on the receiving end, so parallel running costs nothing but the second subscription and tells you which service actually finds more.

    Are the search de-listings I already have lost when I switch?

    No. A granted de-listing is Google's record, not your vendor's, so it stays granted regardless of who you pay. What you need from a new service is that it re-checks those URLs, because de-listed content can be re-indexed if the host reposts it.

    What does it cost to move?

    At most one overlapping month, because Rulta bills monthly with no contract. On Pro that is $139, on Legend $324. Time the switch near a renewal date and the overlap can be a few days rather than a month.

    Is my spreadsheet actually useful, or is it just habit?

    It is the most useful thing you own here. No provider in this category publishes an export of takedown history, so your own list is the only record that survives a cancellation. Paste it in as manual submissions and it becomes the new service's starting state.

    Sources and verification dates

    Run the free scan on your main stage name before you cancel anything. If it finds less than Rulta does, stay. If it finds more, Starter is $29/mo for one creator, Pro $89/mo for three and each extra creator is $15/mo.