Removal guide

How to remove your course from FreeCourseSite

FreeCourseSite is a download aggregator where unauthorized copies of paid courses are listed for free download. One note before the steps: we have not yet filed against this site ourselves, so this guide gives you the standard route we use across comparable aggregator sites, not observations specific to this one. The route is marked accordingly: not yet field-tested by us on this venue.

Does FreeCourseSite honor DMCA notices?

We do not have first-hand data for this site. Aggregators in this category mostly publish no working, monitored DMCA contact, which is why the route below does not depend on the site's cooperation at any step. If the site lists a DMCA page when you check, use it as an extra layer on top.

The DIY route (standard two-layer, not yet field-tested by us here)

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

This layer works the same for every site, because it acts on Google rather than on the venue.

  1. Search Google for your course name and your name, and copy the exact FreeCourseSite 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 carries multiple URLs.
  4. Confirm the sworn statements, pass the human check, and submit. Confirmation arrives immediately by email, and Google's removals dashboard tracks the request.

In our filings against other course-piracy venues, listings stopped surfacing for course-name searches within days of this step, inside Google's stated two-week window.

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

Most sites in this category sit behind Cloudflare, and Cloudflare accepts a DMCA report at https://abuse.cloudflare.com and forwards it to the site owner and its hosting provider. It removes nothing itself, though, and in our filings against other venues 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 is optional.

  1. Open the FreeCourseSite 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. Email that host's own copyright or abuse address (for MEGA, Pixeldrain and Send, our guides for those hosts give it) with 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.
  3. Recheck the file URL after the host acts. A removed file no longer serves the download, even if the listing is still up.

Step 3: Direct DMCA email

Only if the site publishes one. We have none on record for FreeCourseSite.

Time cost

Plan 20 to 30 minutes for the first listing, plus a recheck a few days later. If the listing reappears under a new URL, the pass repeats.

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 finds every venue first, including the ones this page does not cover.

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