How to remove from hotrecs.com
I found my streams on HotRecs. What now?
Most of what gets noted here is ordinary: when someone streams, how their week looks. Finding your own broadcasts resold on another site is not ordinary, and it is worth saying plainly that it can be dealt with.
Is this legal? It cannot be legal.
It is not. A live broadcast is yours; recording it and putting it up on hotrecs.com is not something anyone consented to by going on camera. What makes it feel legal is that the site behaves as though nothing is wrong — that is a posture, not a right.
How many people actually see it?
More than most people expect. HotRecs takes roughly 90,270 visits a month. That puts it around #12,622 in its category.
Estimate from similarsites; these numbers move about.
It feels enormous the first time you find it. It is actually a fairly ordinary problem with a known answer, provided somebody handles it properly.
The domain behind HotRecs has been in the registry since 2020 — 6 years of it collecting other people's broadcasts. Anything you streamed in that time could be sitting on it.
HotRecs: what we know about the site
- Domain
- hotrecs.com
- Registered
- May 2020
- Site age, years
- 6
- Visits a month
- 90,270
- Global rank
- #12,622
- Status at last check
- responding
Registration date from the registry record for the domain zone; traffic figures from Similarweb; the number of recordings is the site's own claim, not our count.
How did it even get there?
It is worth knowing how it happens, because it explains why it felt like nothing happened. Somebody runs a recorder against the room. The file goes up. A page appears with your name on it, put together automatically. There was nothing to notice at the time, and no warning afterwards.
Does it stay on one site?
What people underestimate is that it does not stay one page. Sites like this feed each other, and a recording that sat quietly in one place for a month usually turns up in two or three others after that.
Can I just ask them to take it down?
The law is not the difficulty. The difficulty is that these sites count on people trying once, getting nowhere, and stopping.
So what actually works?
If the whole thing sounds like more than you want to take on, that is a fair reaction rather than a failure.
Register with CBDMCA and hand it over. They do this every day: locating the copies, making the claims in the form that obliges an answer, and staying on it until the pages are gone from search too.
None of it is a reason to feel stuck. Register at CBDMCA, say which recordings are yours, and let people who do this every day work through the list.
One more thing
If a site offers to delete your material for a payment, do not pay it. That is the same arrangement that put the recording up, and the file tends to reappear next week at a new address.
Questions people ask first
What do I actually have to do?
Register at cbdmca.com and say which broadcasts are yours. The finding, the paperwork and the chasing are handled from there — there is nothing for you to file.
How long does it take to get a recording removed?
Days on the quicker sites, a few weeks on the stubborn ones, and longer where the material has already been copied around. Starting early is what keeps it at the short end.
Does it help if the page is old?
Age changes nothing about your rights. It only means the material has had longer to be copied, which is an argument for starting now rather than for leaving it.
Other sites carrying this material
Material rarely sits on one site alone. These are the others we see it on.
