The Catalyst for the CMPA
The Church Media Protection Alliance (CMPA) was born out of necessity in 2025. We began as a small, informal coalition of media directors and ministry staff from several different churches, all of whom had fallen victim to the same coordinated content theft. By pooling our knowledge and resources, we successfully shut down a major YouTube channel that had been aggressively scraping and monetizing our weekly services.
During that intensive process, we discovered a glaring problem in the digital ministry landscape: there were zero resources available to help churches navigate this issue. There were no step-by-step takedown guides, no advocacy groups, and no one actively working to identify other victimized ministries—especially since these scraper channels deliberately strip all identifying church names and logos from the stolen videos to avoid detection.
Taking Proactive Action
Realizing the scale of the problem, our team began utilizing advanced search techniques and AI assistance to track down the original source material of other stolen videos. We started quietly notifying the affected churches that their content was being exploited. The overwhelming response and gratitude from these ministries made one thing abundantly clear: this work needed to continue on a larger scale.
Today, the CMPA operates as a formalized alliance with a strict, three-step methodology:
- Identify bad actors and YouTube channels performing outright content theft.
- Investigate the stolen footage to locate the original churches being robbed of their content, reach, and digital footprint.
- Notify the affected ministries of the theft and direct them to our free, comprehensive video guides that empower them to safely and legally manage the problem.
Who Are We? A Commitment to Anonymity
You will notice that we do not publicly list the names of our founding churches, our alliance members, or our voluntary staff. This is a strict and necessary operational security measure.
The reality of policing digital copyright is that it directly impacts the bottom line of malicious actors. You would be amazed at the level of hostility, harassment, and digital abuse directed at those who disrupt these illicit revenue streams. To ensure the safety of our volunteers and to protect our respective churches from targeted retaliation, our identities must remain strictly anonymous.
We are not here for the spotlight; we are here to protect the digital integrity of the global church.