Removal guide

How to remove your course from HacksNation

HacksNation is a discussion-board style site where unauthorized copies of paid courses are posted as download threads. Course listings there follow the board's thread format, each carrying the course title and a download route.

Does HacksNation honor DMCA notices?

We found no published DMCA contact when we filed against HacksNation in July 2026. With no inbox to send a notice to, removal runs through the layers that do not need the site's cooperation: Google Search de-indexing and a notice to the host that stores the file. Cloudflare accepted our report too, but it only forwards.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

  1. Search Google for your course name and your name, and copy the exact HacksNation thread 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 thread URL. Multiple URLs fit in one report.
  4. Confirm the sworn statements, pass the human check, submit. The confirmation email is immediate, and Google's removals dashboard tracks the request from there.

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

HacksNation sits behind Cloudflare; we confirmed this when Cloudflare accepted our report and emailed a case reference the same day. But Cloudflare forwards a report to the site owner and host and removes nothing itself, 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, so the notice goes there. A Cloudflare report at https://abuse.cloudflare.com is optional; if you file one anyway, the form's submit button stays disabled until you tick the human-verification checkbox at the bottom, which is easy to miss and looks like a broken form until you spot it.

  1. Open the HacksNation thread 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 HacksNation thread is still up.

Step 3: Direct DMCA email

Not available. No monitored DMCA contact was published as of our July 2026 filing.

What to expect, from our filings

Google acknowledged immediately, and the listing stopped surfacing for course-name searches within days, well inside Google's stated two-week window. Cloudflare's confirmation and case reference arrived the same day as submission, with confirmation that the report was passed to the site owner and its host. Cloudflare itself removes nothing, and in our filings forwarding alone did not bring a listing down. Whether the file comes down at the source is the host's call, which is why the notice now goes to the host directly; measure the listing's success at the search layer.

Time cost

Around 20 to 30 minutes for the first listing across the Google form and the host notice, a few minutes per extra URL, plus a recheck a few days later. Reuploads restart the clock, which is the argument for doing this on a schedule or having someone do it for you.

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