Non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) presents internet-scale harm to individuals who are depicted. One of the most powerful tools for requesting its removal is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). However, the DMCA was designed to protect copyright holders rather than to address the problem of NCIM. Using a dataset of more than 54,000 DMCA reports and over 85 million infringing URLs spanning over a decade, this paper evaluates the efficacy of the DMCA for NCIM takedown. Results show that for non-commercial requests, while more than half of URLs are deindexed from Google Search within 48 hours, the actual removal of content from website hosts is much slower. The median infringing URL takes more than 45 days to be removed from website hosts, and only 5.39% URLs are removed within the first 48 hours. Additionally, the most frequently reported domains for non-commercial NCIM are smaller websites, not large platforms. We stress the need for new laws that ensure a shorter time to takedown that are enforceable across big and small platforms alike.

翻译：非自愿亲密媒体（NCIM）对其中描绘的个人造成了互联网规模的伤害。请求其移除的最有力工具之一是《数字千年版权法》（DMCA）。然而，DMCA旨在保护版权持有者，而非解决NCIM问题。本文使用一个包含超过54,000份DMCA报告和超过8,500万个侵权URL、时间跨度超过十年的数据集，评估了DMCA对NCIM内容移除的有效性。结果表明，对于非商业请求，虽然超过一半的URL在48小时内从谷歌搜索中取消索引，但网站主机实际移除内容的速度要慢得多。侵权URL的中位移除时间超过45天，且仅有5.39%的URL在最初48小时内被移除。此外，非商业NCIM最常被举报的域名是较小的网站，而非大型平台。我们强调需要制定新的法律，以确保更短的移除时间，并且这些法律能在大小平台上同样得到强制执行。