YNOT – Each day brings ever-more-egregious examples of illicit content “sharing” on torrent, tube and cyberlocker websites. Since its birth in April 2009, anti-piracy service Takedown Piracy has removed 1.6 million instances of content infringement from the web, according to founder Nate Glass, and the number barely scrapes the tip of the iceberg.

Glass is a 13-year veteran of the adult entertainment industry, having gotten his start with Hush Hush Entertainment and Shane’s World. After leaving Hush Hus in November 2010, he restructured and enhanced Takedown Piracy to increase performance, activity and awareness. The Canoga Park, Calif.-based company now occupies all of his professional energies.

“Since making Takedown Piracy my sole venture, the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] notices sent out on any one of my clients has increased by 400 percent monthly,” Glass said. “I am now able to focus entirely on piracy and combat it with a multi-faceted approach.

“TDP monitors over 200 of the leading piracy culprits, providing clients with monthly breakdowns on our success,” he added. “As our company grows, so do our resources and resolve to protect our clients’ content.”

More than 50 of the adult industry’s leading studios utilize Takedown Piracy, including Adam & Eve, Wicked Pictures, New Sensations, Hush Hush Entertainment and Girlfriends Films, Glass noted.

“Takedown Piracy often has our pirated content removed before we even know it was stolen,” said Girlfriends Films Vice President Moose. “They are available any time of day we need them, and if we notify them of an infringement, it’s handled in a matter of hours.

“Nate goes right to the source of the piracy on our behalf, not wasting time on end-user litigation,” he continued. “We don’t want to punish those interested in watching a Girlfriends Films movie. Going after the uploaders ensures our movies are obtained the legal way.”

Andrew S., owner of Hush Hush Entertainment, added, “Takedown Piracy is worth every cent I pay them to protect our content. Actually, it would be worth it paying twice as much. With piracy on the rise, it’s even more important for studios to invest in countermeasures, and there is no one better than Takedown Piracy’s Nate Glass. His DMCA results continue to grow exponentially each month, which in turn is great for our bottom line.”

Takedown Piracy actively tracks at least nine different ways content may be pirated: cyberlocker sites like Rapidshare, Torrent sites, tube sites, auctioned or unauthorized DVD resellers, search engines, image hosts, blogs, forums and social media.

To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by Takedown Piracy, click here.