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. One thing we learned there that saves time: Cloudflare takes one report per hostname, so when we filed two separate course listings on DownloadPirate, both went into a single submission. If several of your products are listed, gather all the URLs before you start.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

  1. Search Google for each course name plus "free download" 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: File one Cloudflare abuse report for all URLs

DownloadPirate sits behind Cloudflare; Cloudflare accepted our report and emailed a case reference the same day.

  1. Go to https://abuse.cloudflare.com and choose the DMCA report.
  2. Enter your name, address, and country, then every DownloadPirate URL you collected, and a description of each original work with its official URL.
  3. Tick the human-verification checkbox at the bottom; the submit button is disabled until you do.
  4. Submit once. The confirmation email carries the case reference and states the report was forwarded to the site owner and hosting provider.

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. Cloudflare forwards the notice rather than removing content, so the source file's fate rests with the host; 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 both forms accept batched 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

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