Clampdown
Artists & labels

Leaks, rips, and reuploads of your catalog.

Unreleased tracks leak, finished records get ripped from streaming, and reuploads collect plays under someone else's account. Clampdown watches the catalog and files the claims.

The threats

How music gets taken

Pre-release leaks

Unreleased tracks escape from studios, promo lists, and mastering handoffs, then spread through Discord and Telegram in hours.

Stream ripping

Ripper sites convert streams to MP3 at scale. Your catalog becomes a download library with no play counted.

Unauthorized reuploads

Full tracks and albums posted to video and audio platforms by accounts that are not you, collecting the plays and the ad revenue.

Fake artist pages

Distributors and impersonators publish releases under your artist name, splitting your listeners and your royalties.

Where it spreads

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

  • Stream-ripping sites
  • YouTube & SoundCloud
  • Telegram channels
  • Discord servers
  • Torrent indexes
  • File hosts
  • Leak forums
  • Bandcamp clones
  • Streaming platform impostor pages
How we protect it

What Clampdown does about it

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

  1. 01

    Pre-release watch

    Monitoring can start before release date, when a leak does the most damage to a campaign.

  2. 02

    Catalog matching

    Findings are tied to the track and release they belong to, so you can see which parts of the catalog leak most.

  3. 03

    Platform claims

    Reuploads are reported through each platform's copyright route, and repeat uploaders are tracked across runs.

  4. 04

    Impostor takedowns

    Artist-name impersonation on streaming and social is filed as brand impersonation, not just as a copyright claim.

Frequently asked questions

Does this replace Content ID?
No. Content ID handles matching inside YouTube's own library; Clampdown covers the ripper sites, forums, chat channels and torrent indexes it never sees. They work well together.
Can you help with a pre-release leak?
We monitor the leak forums and chat channels where early copies circulate and file as soon as one appears. Speed matters most here, so we alert you as well as filing.
What about fake artist pages?
Releases published under your name by someone else are handled as impersonation and reported to the platform and the distributor. That route usually resolves faster than a copyright claim.

Find the copies of your music 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.