Removal guide

How to remove your course from Design.rip

Design.rip is a download aggregator that hosts unauthorized copies of paid design and 3D course material. Its listing URLs are short course-name slugs, so a search for your course title surfaces them quickly.

Does Design.rip honor DMCA notices?

Our July 2026 filings against Design.rip used no direct DMCA contact; we filed through Google Search removal and a Cloudflare abuse report, and both were accepted, though Cloudflare only forwarded the report. The route below goes to Google and to the host that stores the file. If you find a published DMCA route on the site when you look, treat it as a bonus layer; the steps below do not depend on it.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

  1. Search Google for your course name and your name, and copy the exact Design.rip URL from the results.
  2. Go to https://reportcontent.google.com/forms/dmca_search and sign in with a Google account.
  3. File as the rights holder: your full legal name, your country, the course name with a short description, your official sales page URL as the example of the authorized work, and the infringing URL. One report can carry several URLs.
  4. Confirm the sworn statements, pass the human check, and submit. The confirmation email is immediate, and Google's removals dashboard tracks each URL from there.

Step 2: Send the notice to the host that stores the file

Design.rip sits behind Cloudflare; we confirmed this when Cloudflare accepted our report and emailed back a case reference the same day. But Cloudflare forwards a report to the site owner and host and removes nothing itself, and in our filings forwarding alone did not bring a listing down, so we no longer rely on it. The file host holds the file and can remove it, so the notice goes there. Filing a Cloudflare report at https://abuse.cloudflare.com as well is optional.

  1. Open the Design.rip listing for your course and follow its download links until you reach the file host's own address. Copy the full file URL; if the course is split across several files, collect every file URL.
  2. Find that host's own copyright or abuse address on the host's site. For MEGA, Pixeldrain and Send, our guides for those hosts give the exact address.
  3. Email the notice there: your full legal name and country, the course name, your official sales page URL as the authorized example of the work, the exact file URL or URLs, and the good-faith and accuracy statements the host's copyright page asks for.
  4. Recheck the file URL after the host acts. A removed file no longer serves the download, even if the Design.rip listing is still up.

Step 3: Direct DMCA email

We have no field-tested direct contact for Design.rip as of July 2026. The two layers above are the working route.

What to expect, from our filings

Google acknowledged immediately, and the listing stopped surfacing for course-name searches within days, inside Google's stated two-week window. Cloudflare acknowledged the same day, but it forwards the notice rather than acting on the content, and in our filings forwarding alone did not bring a listing down. Whether the file comes down at the source is the host's decision, which is why the notice now goes to the host directly; the search de-index is the outcome that reliably lands and the one that cuts the listing's traffic.

Time cost

20 to 30 minutes for the first listing across the Google form and the host notice, a few minutes per extra URL, plus a recheck a few days later to confirm the listing has left the results.

Or have us file it

Delister files all of this for you, plus every other venue hosting your course, for $89 once per course. You pay only after it is down, and for three months, every time it reappears we file again and send you the notice and what happened to it. Start with the free scan and get the full list of venues first.

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