„Votiss.app“:takedown notice to chat app company???

[Dan D]

I am asking a technical question which may be of general interest because it is about protecting your privacy on the internet.

The scenario: boy has shared nudity video of his ex-girlfirend with his friends by sending it via a well-known chat-app on his mobile phone. The friends shared it with their other friends and so on and now the video file is circulating at all schools in town, which is pretty ugly for the girl.

Apart from making the boy's life miserable, too, what else can you do? What is with the video file?

If you send a so-called „Takedown Notice“ to the chat-app company in California, which it says you should do in the general terms of agreement, What exactely happens on the technical side? Is it like pulling the plug, so to speak?

My understanding as a noob is that the video file is stored on one of the servers of the chat-app company and that when it is taken down, it has the effect that the video no longer can be shared and played unless someone has made a copy on external memory and uploads it somewhere else again?

Is that a correct understanding?