: Do you have to be in the United States to file a DMCA complaint? I understand that DMCA complaints only work for search engines and webhosts which are based in the US. However, does the person

@Alves908

The DMCA is U.S. law, however, many organizations and search engines participate in a sort of co-operative organization to satisfy these requests. If you file the DMCA complaint through Google, they inform Chilling Effects which is the de-facto organization which in turn will act as the information clearing house for anyone else who participates in removing copyrighted material. Your site does not have to be a U.S. site for this.

It certainly does not hurt to make this your first step. It may take a few days for everyone who is cooperating to see your complaint and act upon it. From there, you may have to take other steps for specific sites on a case by case basis. Just filing the complaint may be enough.

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