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 report the site to its infrastructure provider. We have filed against GFXFather ourselves, in July 2026, and both layers below are the ones we used.

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 plus "free download" 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: File a Cloudflare abuse report

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, but it forwards your notice to the site's owner and its hosting provider, which is the only way to reach a site that publishes no contact.

  1. Go to https://abuse.cloudflare.com and choose the DMCA report.
  2. Provide your name, address, and country, the infringing URLs, and a description of the original work with its official URL. One submission covers one hostname and can list multiple URLs.
  3. Tick the human-verification checkbox at the bottom; the submit button stays disabled until you do.
  4. Submit. The confirmation and case reference arrive by email, not on the success screen, so do not resubmit when the screen shows only a brief acknowledgment.

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. Whether the file itself ever comes down at the source depends on the host, and 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 both forms, 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.

Or have us file it

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