Removal guide

How to remove your course from GFXFather

GFXFather is a download aggregator that hosts unauthorized copies of paid 3D and design courses, including Blender course material. It runs on two domains: gfxfather.com redirects visitors to gfxfather.net, which matters for the steps below.

Does GFXFather honor DMCA notices?

We found no published DMCA contact on the site, and the site itself states that it does not remove pirated content. So there is no point drafting a notice and hunting for an inbox. The working route goes around the site: remove the listing from Google Search, and send your notice to the host that stores the file. We have filed against GFXFather ourselves, in July 2026, through Google and through Cloudflare; Cloudflare only forwarded our report, which is why the route below now goes to the file host.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

This is the layer that stops the harm. Nearly all traffic to a pirated course listing arrives from someone searching the course name; once the listing is out of Google's results, it stops competing with your sales page.

  1. Search Google for your course name and your name, and copy the exact GFXFather URL that appears in the results. This matters here specifically: gfxfather.com URLs redirect to gfxfather.net, and Google can index the .com address while the page lives at .net. In our filings we submitted the .net URL and the stale .com entry lingered in results afterward. File against the URL Google shows; if both domains appear, file both.
  2. Go to Google's copyright removal form at https://reportcontent.google.com/forms/dmca_search (sign-in with a Google account required).
  3. Fill it as the rights holder: your full legal name, your country, the course name with a one-line description, your official sales page URL as the authorized example of the work, and the infringing GFXFather URL or URLs. One report can carry multiple URLs.
  4. Confirm the sworn statements (good-faith belief, accuracy, authority), pass the human check, and submit. A confirmation email arrives immediately, and you can track the request at Google's removals dashboard.

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

GFXFather sits behind Cloudflare; we confirmed this when Cloudflare accepted our abuse report for gfxfather.net and emailed back a case reference. Cloudflare does not remove content itself; it forwards your notice to the site's owner and its hosting provider, 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, and it can be reached even though GFXFather publishes no contact. A Cloudflare report at https://abuse.cloudflare.com is optional.

  1. Open the GFXFather 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 GFXFather listing is still up.

Step 3: Direct DMCA email

Not available for GFXFather. No monitored contact exists as of our July 2026 filing; skip this layer rather than emailing addresses scraped from old forum posts.

What to expect, from our filings

Google acknowledged our submission immediately by email, and the listing stopped surfacing for course-name searches within days; Google's own guidance allows up to two weeks. Cloudflare acknowledged the same day with a case reference and confirmation that the report was forwarded to the site owner and host, but in our filings forwarding alone did not bring a listing down. Whether the file itself comes down at the source depends on the host, which is why the notice now goes to the host directly; for a site that states it does not remove pirated content, treat de-indexing as the win condition.

Time cost

Budget 20 to 30 minutes for your first listing, covering the Google form and the host notice, plus a few minutes per additional URL. Then a recheck a few days later to confirm the listing is out of results, and again whenever a reupload appears.

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