The DIY toolkit
File your own takedown.
Correctly. For free.
A DMCA notice is a legal document with six required element, miss one and it gets ignored. Our generator builds the statute into the letter, our tools find who to send it to, and the guides teach the escalation ladder. No service fee, because this skill should belong to everyone.
Free account required. Core generator is free forever; the full 7-template kit comes with any protection plan ($5/mo+).
What's inside
Seven documents that do real work
Interactive generators, not blank PDFs, answer questions, get a complete, formatted document.
DMCA Takedown Notice (17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3))
The full statutory notice: work identification, infringement location, good-faith and perjury statements, contact block. Fill in, generate, send.
DMCA Counter-Notice (§512(g)(3))
Someone takedown'd your content and you disagree, the lawful response that puts the material back if no suit follows.
EU DSA Article 16 Notice
The EU platform-regime equivalent of a takedown, for hosts and intermediaries under the Digital Services Act.
Hosting Provider Escalation
The site ignored you or the operator is the thief, this letter goes over their head to the abuse desk that powers them.
Registrar / Repeat-Infringer Escalation
For domains that rack up valid notices: the registrar-level push citing repeat-infringer duties.
Cease & Desist Letter
Non-DMCA situations, contracts, confidentiality, trademark-adjacent disputes where a demand letter fits better.
Counter-Notice Response Checklist
You filed, they counter-noticed. The decision tree for the 10–14 business-day window.
The core DMCA generator is free with any account. The full kit opens with any active protection plan ( from $5/month), cancel anytime.
The method
How a self-filed takedown succeeds
Every rejected notice fails at one of two points: it went to the wrong party, or it's missing a statutory element. The toolkit is organized around never failing at either.
Tools that do the hard parts
- Website Detective, free; finds the host, registrar, and dates for any domain (sees through Cloudflare fronts)
- Copy Scanner, free; finds who copied your pages before you file
- Watermark tool, free; make the next theft provable and less attractive
- 1
Find who actually hosts it
Run the domain through Website Detective. If it's behind Cloudflare, the tool says so and points you to the abuse channel that reaches the real host.
- 2
Generate the noticefree
Open the §512(c)(3) generator, answer the questions, and download a complete notice, the six statutory elements, assembled.
- 3
Send it to the right abuse desk
The notice goes to the host's abuse@ address (and the operator, if they're reachable). Plain email is fine; keep the thread.
- 4
File the search de-listing
Submit the URLs to Google's legal removal flow so the page stops surfacing even while the host decides.
- 5
Escalate if they stall
No response in a reasonable window? That's what the host-escalation and registrar letters in the full kit are for, each one cites the duty that applies.
Sizing it yourself
When DIY works, and when it doesn't
DIY is usually enough
- One or two pages on a mainstream host or platform
- You hold clear, dated proof of ownership
- The content is public work, not urgent private material
- You have an hour and don't mind one email thread
Consider a managed case
- Multiple sites or a spreading leak, volume and speed matter
- The host is offshore, indifferent, or hiding behind proxies
- You want follow-up escalation and a team behind it
- The counter-notice arrived and court deadlines now apply
Managed cases run $49–$199, see the comparison.
DIY FAQ
Before you send it yourself
Case pricing
What a case costs, completely
The toolkit is free and genuinely sufficient for clean cases. When a host stonewalls, the sites multiply, or you would simply rather not argue the law yourself, the same notice, filed for you.
Quick Send
We draft and deliver the notice. You keep the wheel.
- One infringing site, up to 25 URLs
- Professionally drafted §512(c)(3) notice
- All four channels: operator, host, registrar, search
- Delivery confirmation for your records
Standard
The full managed case, our default recommendation.
- Everything in Quick Send
- Host, registrar and search escalation with follow-ups
- 24–48 hour processing
- Every step timestamped in your dashboard
Urgent
A leak that's spreading now, processed first.
- Everything in Standard
- Priority queue placement
- For live damage and spreading content
- Complex targets like bulletproof hosts quoted before charging
10% off every tier once your account holds 10 paid notices ($89 Standard), 17% off at 25+ ($82). Counted per account, applied at checkout, no code. Monitoring subscribers also get 20% off any case beyond their monthly included quota.
One hour, one letter, one skill you keep.
Open the toolkit, run the detective, generate the notice. Upgrade only if the case outgrows you.