For Teachable school owners
Teachable protects the courses inside your school, but it cannot follow a file that a student has downloaded and posted somewhere else. If you run a school with a catalog, the leaks that hurt are the ones sitting on free-download sites, competing with your own checkout. Those are yours to clear, and they can be cleared.
A student downloads the lesson files and uploads them to a file host. A course-leak forum or download aggregator then posts a page ranking for your course name that links to the host. The bigger your flagship course, the faster this happens, and once one course in your catalog is out there, the rest often follow onto the same sites.
Teachable secures playback on its own platform and can act on a copycat school that impersonates you. What it cannot do is reach a copy that has left the platform. For those, a complaint to Teachable does nothing; you file where the copy lives. Selling through Teachable does not reduce your rights as the creator, which is what a DMCA notice rests on.
Search each course name with "free download" and "torrent". Leaks cluster, so checking the whole catalog at once usually surfaces more than chasing a single course. Record the listing URL and the file-host link behind each.
Send a DMCA notice to the file host holding the files. Compliant hosts remove them at the source, which kills every listing that links to them. Guides for the common hosts: MEGA, Pixeldrain, Send.
File a Google Search removal request for listing sites that ignore notices. Search is where the traffic comes from, so a de-indexed listing stops competing with your sales page even if it stays online.
Reuploads are routine. A recurring scan of your catalog catches new copies before they build up traffic, and each one gets the same treatment.
Delister scans your whole catalog, files at the host and each listing, and reports back when copies are 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. Monitoring keeps the catalog watched after the first sweep. Start with the free scan: see where your courses are pirated, results in seconds.