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 less than 50% of infringing URLs are removed from website hosts in 60 days, and Google Search takes a median of 11.7 days to deindex infringing content. Across web hosts, only 4% of 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。请求移除此类内容最有力的工具之一是《数字千年版权法案》（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。结果显示，在60天内，网站主机上只有不到50%的侵权URL被移除，而Google搜索对侵权内容进行去索引的中位时间为11.7天。在所有网络主机中，只有4%的URL在最初48小时内被移除。此外，对于非商业性NCIM，被报告最频繁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，并且该法律能在大小平台上同样得到执行。