Removal guide

How to remove your course from DownloadPirate

DownloadPirate is a download aggregator that hosts unauthorized copies of paid courses, listing each one as a "free download" page under the course and creator name. If more than one of your courses is on it, the filing below covers them together.

Does DownloadPirate honor DMCA notices?

We did not locate a published DMCA contact when we filed against DownloadPirate in July 2026; our filings ran through Google and Cloudflare, and both were accepted, though Cloudflare only forwarded the report. If several of your products are listed, gather all the URLs before you start: Google takes them in one report, and a single host notice can list several files.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

  1. Search Google for each course name and your name, and copy the exact DownloadPirate URLs 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, each course name with its official sales page URL as the authorized example, and the matching infringing URLs. One report carries multiple URLs; you do not need one report per course.
  4. Confirm the sworn statements, pass the human check, submit, and keep the immediate confirmation email. Google's removals dashboard shows progress per URL.

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

DownloadPirate sits behind Cloudflare; Cloudflare accepted our report and emailed 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. A Cloudflare report at https://abuse.cloudflare.com is optional; if you file one anyway, Cloudflare takes one report per hostname, so every DownloadPirate URL goes into a single submission.

  1. Open the DownloadPirate 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 DownloadPirate listing is still up.

Step 3: Direct DMCA email

Skip it. We found no monitored contact to send one to as of our July 2026 filing.

What to expect, from our filings

Google acknowledged immediately, and both of the listings we filed 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 removing content, and in our filings forwarding alone did not bring a listing down. The source file's fate rests with the host, which is why the notice now goes to the host directly; the search layer is the outcome you control.

Time cost

About 20 to 30 minutes total for the first pass, even with multiple courses, since the Google form and a host notice both take several URLs. Add a recheck a few days later, and repeat the pass if a listing reappears under a new URL.

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. The free scan gives you the full URL list to file with, whether you hire us or not.

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