Motherless.com
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Motherless is a pornographic image and video-sharing website, founded in 2008 by Joshua Lange. As of 2018 he was the sole owner and employee of the company; it is unclear whether this is still the case.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
In July 2011, Pink Visual filed suit against Motherless, alleging copyright infringement and unfair competition regarding age verification and record keeping requirements.[8] Motherless won the case under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).[9][10]
Following the 2012 suicide of Canadian student Amanda Todd, the site was named as a host of topless images of Todd uploaded by a resident of the Netherlands who was on trial for multiple charges including extortion, harassment, and child pornography.[11]
In 2026, CNN reported that the site was part of a broader online ecosystem of pornographic content purporting to show women asleep or sedated. According to CNN, the legality of some of this material was doubtful.[1][12] Following publication, some social media users falsely claimed that CNN had reported on an "online rape academy" where more than 62 million men had been taught to drug and assault their partners. However, 62 million was the total number of hits the site had received in a single month across all categories, and the "academy" was a Telegram chat group to which a Motherless user had provided a link.[1] On May 8, 2026, CNN reported that the site, whose servers are based in the Netherlands, had been taken down by Dutch authorities after facing public pressure due to the earlier investigation, although the homepage stated the site had been taken down voluntarily.[13]
