This is not your fault.
Someone posted private video of you without your permission. That is on them. What follows is what you can actually do about it, starting now, in the order that works.
The first step is finding every copy that is online, because you cannot report what you cannot point to. That part is free here, and you do not have to hand us your video.
no signup. no card. your video stays on your computer.
Three things worth doing in the first hour.
Save the links before anything else.
Copy the address of every page you have found and take a screenshot of each one. Note the date. Pages get deleted, and once a page is gone it is very hard to show it was ever there. Every report form you fill in later will ask you for exact links.
If someone is threatening you, do not pay them.
Paying tells them it works, and it very rarely stops. Keep every message they send you. In most countries threatening to share private images is a crime on its own, separate from the sharing.
You do not have to be the one who looks.
Searching for your own content is hard. Ask someone you trust to sit with you, or to do the searching and the reporting on your behalf. Nothing here needs to be done alone or in one sitting.
Find every copy.
A single link is almost never the whole picture. The same clip gets re-uploaded, mirrored, cropped, and cut into pieces inside longer videos. Reporting one page while four others stay up feels like nothing is working.
So we search the big video sites for the actual picture and sound of your video, not for your name and not for your face. We find it even when it has been cut down to a few seconds and buried inside something else. Then we tell you exactly which sites we searched, so an empty result means something.
Run it on your own computer
A small free app looks at your video on your machine and sends us only a set of numbers describing how it looks and sounds. The file never leaves your computer.
Or drop one video in the browser
If installing something is one step too many right now, drop a single video in and we will search with that. We delete it once the search is done.
Pick the fastest way to get it down.
Most advice online tells you to send a copyright notice. Sometimes that is right. Often it is not, because the person who leaked the video is frequently the person who filmed it, which means the copyright is not yours to claim. There are three other routes, and one of them is usually faster. Start with the one that fits your situation.
Report it to the site itself
Use this when: The video is on a big platform.
Most large sites have a separate form for private content shared without consent. That form does not ask whether you own the copyright, which matters, because the person who leaked it is often the one who held the camera. It is usually the fastest route, and often the only one you need.
how to report it, site by siteStopNCII.org
Use this when: You want to stop it spreading to other sites.
You give it a fingerprint of the image or video from your own device. The file itself never gets uploaded. Participating platforms then block matching uploads before they go live. It works on what has not happened yet, so it pairs well with the reports above.
how StopNCII worksA copyright notice
Use this when: You filmed it, or you own it.
A takedown notice is a formal request that a site has strong legal reasons to act on quickly. It only works if the video is yours to claim, so it is the wrong first move when someone else held the camera.
how to write oneThe police
Use this when: You are being threatened, blackmailed or harassed, or you were under 18.
Sharing private sexual images without consent is a crime in a growing number of places, and threatening to share them almost always is. If you were under 18 when it was filmed, this is the first call to make, not the last.
what to bring, what to expectStop it coming back.
Getting a page removed is not the end of it. The same file usually gets re-uploaded, sometimes within days, sometimes months later on a site nobody had heard of. That is the part that wears people down.
Two things help. StopNCII blocks matching uploads on participating platforms before they go live. And you can have someone keep looking, so a new copy gets found in days rather than by a stranger sending you a link. We do the second part, and you do not have to decide about it today.
What happens to your video here.
Asking someone to hand over their private video, in order to solve the problem of that video reaching strangers, is a lot to ask. So the free check is built so that you do not have to. Run the local app and only numbers leave your computer. Someone technical can confirm that by watching their own network traffic while it runs.
Whatever you send us to search for is marked as a search, never as something other people can search against. That is enforced in the code, not in a policy. Your video does not join the pile. And there is no account, so there is nothing for us to attach to your name.
Being unsure about all this is reasonable. If you would rather not run anything at all, the browser option searches with one video and deletes it afterwards.
Other places that help, that are not us.
Free. Stops matching images being uploaded again on participating platforms. For adults.
Free, run by NCMEC. For images of anyone who was under 18 at the time.
US. Safety guides and a crisis helpline for image based abuse.
UK. Free, confidential, and they will do reporting work with you.
We do not run any of these and we get nothing from linking them. If one of them solves your problem before we do, that is a good outcome.
The things people ask us first.
Do I have to upload my video to you?
No. You can run a small free app on your own computer instead. It looks at the video locally and sends us only a set of numbers that describe how it looks and sounds. The video file itself stays on your machine. If you would rather just drop one video in the browser, you can do that too, and we delete it after the search.
What if they filmed it, so I do not own the copyright?
You can still get it taken down. The report paths that most large sites run for private content shared without consent do not ask who owns the copyright. They ask whether you are in it and whether you agreed to it being posted. That is the route to use first when the other person held the camera.
Does my video get added to the sites you search?
No. Anything you send us to search for is marked as a search, never as something to be searched against, and that separation is enforced in the code rather than by a policy someone has to remember. Your video does not become part of what other people can find.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no signup, no card and no trial. Run the check, get your list, leave. If you later want us to keep watching for new copies, an account exists for that, but the help does not depend on it.
What if you find nothing?
We will tell you exactly which sites we searched and when we last looked at them. Finding nothing on the sites we cover is real information, but it is not proof that nothing exists anywhere. We would rather say that plainly than let an empty page imply something we cannot back up.
Will you get it taken down for me?
No, and we want to be straight about that. We find the copies and hand you the exact links, plus the fastest route for each site and the wording to use. Filing is yours to do, or a lawyer’s. We are a search tool, not an agency.
I was under 18 when this was filmed. What do I do?
Do not use this tool for that. Contact the police, and use Take It Down, run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is built specifically for images of people who were minors at the time. Those routes have powers and obligations that we do not have and should not have.
Start with finding it.
Free, no account, no card, and your video stays on your computer. Everything after that is easier once you have the list of links in front of you.
run the free check