For Gumroad creators
If you sell a course on Gumroad and it is selling well, copies are likely already circulating on free-download sites. Gumroad handles complaints about content on its own platform, but a copy reposted somewhere else is yours to chase. Here is how the piracy happens, and how to get the copies removed.
One buyer downloads your files and uploads them to a file host like MEGA, Pixeldrain, or Send. Then a download aggregator or a course-leak forum posts a page that ranks for your course name and links to that host. From then on, someone searching your course finds the free copy sitting next to your Gumroad checkout. The upload is the leak; the listing is the distribution; the search result is the lost sale.
Gumroad acts on DMCA notices for content hosted on gumroad.com, such as a copycat product page selling your work. That matters, but it is the smaller problem. The larger one is off-platform: the files reposted to a host and linked from an aggregator are outside Gumroad's control. For those, filing with Gumroad does nothing. You file where the copy lives.
Search your course name and your own name with terms like "free download", "torrent", and "nulled". Open each result and find where the download points: the visible button on a listing page usually leads to a file host. Record the listing URL and the host link both.
This is the move that ends the distribution. Compliant hosts remove the file at the source on a valid DMCA notice, which kills every listing that links to it. Use your Gumroad product page as the authorized example of the work. We publish step-by-step guides for the hosts these courses land on most: MEGA, Pixeldrain, and Send.
For listing sites that ignore notices, file a Google Search removal request at reportcontent.google.com/forms/dmca_search. Nearly all traffic to a pirated listing comes from search, so removing it from results stops the harm even when the page stays up.
A course cleaned once will often reappear, uploaded by someone else. Re-run the search every few weeks, or set up monitoring, and file again when a new copy shows.
The license a buyer agrees to at checkout does not physically stop copying, and the people reposting courses ignore it. Terms are not enforcement. Enforcement is a DMCA notice to whoever is hosting the file, backed by your rights as the creator, which selling on Gumroad does not change.
Delister finds where your Gumroad course is being pirated, files at the host and every listing carrying it, and reports back when it is down, for $79 per course, pay on success: a removal counts when the listing is de-indexed from Google Search or the file is removed at the host. Start with the free scan: send your course name and Gumroad page, see where it is pirated, results in seconds.