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Stolen Recording by webinartv.us

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October 7, 2025
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We conducted a meeting and the next day was sent an email from webinartv.us that our "webinar video" was available on their website. We did not agree to this and it seems that they had a fake person register and then recorded our meeting to be posted on their website. The only person that was on the registration that was not engaging and stayed on even when the meeting was over was named Jordan Spencer and had an email ending in lightconnect.space

Alerting zoom about this and others.

Best answer by Ray_Harwood

Welcome to the Zoom Community, @dhzoom.

Anyone can do a "screen scrape" of a webinar using OBS or several other tools. Unfortunately, Zoom can't control what happens outside of Zoom. I'm assuming it would have had to be one of your registrants. I know a couple of the folks over at WebinarTV.us, and I'm pretty sure they're not doing something like this. This actually happens a lot to people who create course material... someone sneaks in, records it, then loads it somewhere else and calls it "theirs". You might reach out to them at WebinarTV and ask them to take it down, based on your ownership of the material.

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Scott Y

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Yes, they are continuing to do this.

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kmolay

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Here is an analysis from CyberAlberta (Canadian provincial government): https://cyberalberta.ca/zooming-out-webinartvs-rampant-scraping-of-online-meetings

Use of external AI summary tools by participants is a major vector for allowing them to do the screen scraping. Watch out for fireflies.ai and similar tools. I would like it if Zoom implemented an option to disallow any such tools in a meeting/webinar.

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Mandy Murphy

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We’ve just had the same thing happen to us, same email address Sarah Blair. So after 4 months on this thread it appears the Zoom have yet to resolve it. So we are putting our experience here too. We did not record our meeting, on purpose due to GDPR and confidentiality reasons and government officials being in attendance too. We had a registration link set up so people only received the link if they registered. We used AI companion to capture a summary for the organisers and nothing else. We had 133 people registered and from across the UK, it’s not possible to only allow people in that you know as when the audience is for a professional group which has wide reach. The screen scrape is worrying when we didn’t advertise publicly. Would really like to know what’s being done about it or what measures Zoom can put in place.

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Aaron MN

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We want to send a formal letter to a formal address for Webinar TV. Does anyone have a physical address or phone number or a registered agent for this company? Thanks

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Nikhilesh Bharadwaj

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Dear Zoom Team,

I understand that when an unauthorised person uploads our content on their website, it is out of Zoom’s security scope. Recently WebinarTv.us did this to one of our webinars. What surprises me how did they get my Zoom registered email address, because we didn’t reveal that email to anyone in the webinar. How is my Zoom Registered Email Address reaching them?? How are they emailing us?

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Frank_TB

Community Champion | Customer

Here’s an article about this topic.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

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GDATF

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No, this issue is not “Solved”. Just this week, we had a meeting infiltrated and secretly recorded by WebinarTV. A person or bot from WebinarTV registered for our meeting with a fake first and last name and an email ending in .space. I know now who it was, because this person did not engage, which is not entirely unusual in our meetings. (People can be working or driving while the meeting is going on, or just don’t feel well enough to participate, but they want to listen in). The only reason I found out is that I was missing an email invitation on a totally unrelated topic and went looking in my spam folder where the email from “Sarah Blair” was found. The meeting has apparently been deleted from their website, but the recording probably still exists somewhere, no?

While I understand this isn’t necessarily a technical failure on Zoom’s part, I will consider it an incredible betrayal of the customer base if Zoom fails to make a PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT calling out WebinarTV by name and denouncing its practices of stealing content and making secret (and probably illegal) recordings of meeting participants. The content theft is awful - but the secret recording is even worse.

Kimberly, GDATF

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CNA Events

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We’ve had this happen too… the disturbing thing is they have a webinar that we stopped recording after the first 15 seconds because we didn’t have the permission of the speaker to record! I’ve sent an email to WebinarTV but haven’t heard back… Plus, thier AI hosts(I’m assuming AI) provided some misinformation. So frustrating.

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GDATF

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I’m so sorry. As hosts, this affects our relationship with our community members, and it’s such a betrayal for Zoom to not publicly speak out against this practice.

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mgkosta

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We have had two webinars scraped by WebinarTV as well as a meeting which we did not even record. I enabled the waiting room for this meeting and did not allow the use of any outside transcription tools, so I don’t even know how they scraped it.

I have written to WebinarTV demanding they remove these webinars and they have not done so. I have also submitted a DCMA form to Google but nothing has happened.

For more information on this type of scraping, visit the Cyber Alberta website:

https://cyberalberta.ca/zooming-out-webinartvs-rampant-scraping-of-online-meetings

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