Clampdown
Magazine & periodical publishers

Every issue scanned and shared, issue by issue.

Magazine piracy runs on schedule. Scans of each new issue appear on file hosts and forums within days of publication, week after week. Clampdown works the same cycle.

The threats

How magazines gets taken

Issue scans

Print issues are scanned to PDF and posted to file hosts, with a forum thread collecting the mirror links.

Digital-edition rips

Subscriber PDFs and app editions are exported and redistributed, sometimes before the issue reaches newsstands.

Archive collections

Whole years get bundled into a single torrent, wiping out the value of your back-catalog subscriptions.

Aggregator sites

PDF aggregators republish issues with their own ads and rank on searches for your title and issue number.

Where it spreads

The surfaces we watch for magazines, and the ones copies usually pass through on the way to a search result.

  • File hosts
  • PDF aggregator sites
  • Magazine forums
  • Torrent indexes
  • Telegram channels
  • Document-sharing sites
  • Usenet indexes
  • Free-download blogs
How we protect it

What Clampdown does about it

The parts of the loop that matter most for this medium.

  1. 01

    Issue-cycle monitoring

    Scanning is aligned to your publication schedule, so each new issue is watched from the day it ships.

  2. 02

    Mirror sweeps

    One forum thread usually points to a dozen hosts. Notices go to all of them, not just the first link.

  3. 03

    Back-catalog claims

    Archive bundles are claimed as a set, which is faster than filing per issue and harder for a host to partially honor.

  4. 04

    Search cleanup

    Aggregator pages ranking for your title and issue number are delisted from search alongside the host takedown.

Frequently asked questions

Can you keep up with a weekly?
Yes. Monitoring runs continuously, so a weekly title is treated as an ongoing cycle rather than a monthly batch. Each issue gets its own record.
Do you cover back issues?
Back-catalog scans and archive torrents are monitored alongside current issues. Bundled archives are claimed as a collection rather than one issue at a time.
What about subscriber leaks?
We can tell you which edition a leaked file came from when the file carries that evidence. Tracing the individual subscriber is outside what we do.

Find the copies of your magazines that are already out there.

Give us a title and a store link. We will come back with what we find, before you commit to anything.