Takedown Watch

Daily piracy monitoring and authorized takedown filings for creators who sell digital products

The problem

If you sell a digital product — a course, an e-book, photo packs, music, software — copies usually appear on pirate sites within days of launch. Free downloads of your paid work, or someone reselling it outright.

Every platform tells you the same thing: just file a report. But the report forms are built for one obsessed person with unlimited time. You have to find every copy yourself, fill a separate form for every site, figure out who hosts it when the site ignores you, and go back weeks later to check whether the link actually died. You built the product; now piracy is your second full-time job — or it doesn't get done at all.

What we do

Every day, we search the places pirated copies land — web search results, video platforms, file lockers and their index sites, leak forums and paste sites — for copies of your work. Each hit is checked against your catalog before anything is sent, so we never file a wrong claim.

Then we file the takedown notices, acting as your authorized agent, and chase them until the links die. Most links come down within about 48 hours of the notice. Sites that ignore notices get escalated: to their host, then their registrar, then out of search results entirely.

Once a month you get one plain report: what was found, what was noticed, what came down, what's pending, and what is out of reach — with the reason, in plain words.

First takedown free

Send us one link where your paid content is being given away or resold, and we take it down at no charge. No card, no commitment. Watching your own stolen link die is the whole demo — if you want that happening every day, that's the service.

Email us one pirated link

How authorization works

The law is strict, and for good reason: a valid takedown notice must come from the copyright owner or their authorized agent. So we file only with your signed authorization — never without it. The authorization is one plain page: it appoints us as your agent to search, send notices, and forward responses.

You stay the owner the whole time. We are an administrative agent, not lawyers: we don't sue anyone and we don't give legal advice. In the rare case of a counter-notice, we forward it, explain the deadline in plain words, and the decision is yours.

Pricing

Every tier includes the daily scan, the signed-agent relationship, and the monthly report. Cancel anytime. If a bad month exceeds your notice cap, we send the notices anyway and talk about the tier at renewal — we never throttle enforcement while your work stays up.

Who it's for

Creators who sell digital products and can't afford a legal department: course sellers, authors and e-book publishers, photographers and artists, musicians and sample makers, video creators, software and tool makers. If it can be downloaded, it can be copied — and searched for, found, and taken down.

The honest part

We don't take down reviews, commentary, or parody — those may be lawful, and a false claim can cost the sender damages and legal fees, so we simply never make one. Every notice we send traces to a work we verified you own.

Some sites ignore everyone — bulletproof hosts in lawless jurisdictions. For those, the honest move is removing their pages from search results, and saying exactly that in your report instead of pretending. And we don't work on intimate images shared without someone's consent; that belongs with specialized services, not a copyright agent.

How to start

Email dmca@orbitalfour.com with a link to your work and one URL where it's being pirated. We'll reply with the one-page authorization. Your first takedown is free.