While we report DMCA to Cloudflare they no longer hide alleged pirate website IP address

Cloudflare is a well-known service for hiding the real ip address of a server, which is often popular among pirate sites, streaming, torrents and other sites. It acts as a layer between users and the origin server, routing traffic across the global network to improve speed and security.

How to get help with copyright infringing website on Cloudflare?

1. Online enforcement (faster and cheaper)

In most cases, Cloudflare will simply forward your copyright or DMCA complaint to the site owner and hosting provider without any responsibility for the content of the site. Next, the site owner or hosting provider can take action against the alleged infringing content. But this way doesn’t guarantee 100% removal, as the site owner may ignore your take down request and the hosting provider is offshore and may ignore your removal request too.

2. Law enforcement / Court order (slower and more costly)

You need to file a lawsuit, wait for the court’s decision and then send it to Cloudflare. Then infringing page will looks like:

However this path also does not guarantee that the content will be blocked for all countries and long. The site owner may change the URL address of the page and/or redirect to another page that is not blocked

What’s new here?

You know that you can use cloudflare proxy services on a no-fee basis and on a paid basis, with several tariffs.

What we’ve noticed is that the sites that are supposedly using free plans, for them Cloudflare shows the real IP address in response to a copyright complaint.

Whats the difference?

At the same time, sites that supposedly use Cloudflare’s paid tariffs are not shown any IP address or e-mail address for complaints. They only say that they have notified the customer of the violation.