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 two layers that do not need the site's cooperation: Google Search de-indexing and a Cloudflare abuse report. Both accepted our filings.

The DIY route

Step 1: File a Google Search removal request

  1. Search Google for your course name plus "free download" 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: File a Cloudflare abuse report

HacksNation sits behind Cloudflare; we confirmed this when Cloudflare accepted our report and emailed a case reference the same day. One practical note from that filing: 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. Go to https://abuse.cloudflare.com and choose the DMCA report.
  2. Enter your name, address, and country, the thread URL, and a description of the original work with its official URL.
  3. Tick the human-verification checkbox, then submit.
  4. The success screen shows only a brief acknowledgment; the case reference and the note that your report was forwarded to the site owner and hosting provider arrive by email.

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; whether the thread comes down at the source is the host's call, so measure success at the search layer.

Time cost

Around 20 to 30 minutes for the first listing across both forms, 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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