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 plus "free download" 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: File an infrastructure abuse report

Most sites in this category sit behind Cloudflare. Check by filing at https://abuse.cloudflare.com: if the site is on Cloudflare's network, your DMCA report is forwarded to the site owner and its hosting provider and you get a case reference by email; if it is not, the form tells you so, and the Google layer from step 1 remains the working lever.

  1. Choose the DMCA report, enter your name, address, and country, the infringing URL or URLs, and a description of the original work with its official URL.
  2. Tick the human-verification checkbox at the bottom; the submit button stays disabled until you do.
  3. Submit and watch your email for the confirmation.

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 $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. The free scan finds every venue first, including the ones this page does not cover.

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