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Ida Bagus Gede Pramana Adi Putra

For a website that got reported for DMCA violation, does Search Engine such as Google/Bing will no longer put that website on their page results?

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Aymen Loukil

Hello and thanks for asking !

DMCA violation ban is a little touchy and complicated topic but don't worry. An affected website could logically restore from this report if and only if it is actually not infringing copyrights.

The procedure is about to send a Counter Notification Letter to explain that your content is not subject to copyright infringement.
Find here some useful resources that may help you writing this counter-notification :

lumendatabase.org/notices/47670

support.google.com/legal/answer/11...

cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Terrorism/form-let...

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Ida Bagus Gede Pramana Adi Putra

Thank you for the reply and the references! And what if it is actually infringing the copyrights? Will the whole sites rank got affected, or just the pages that does infringing copyrights got affected?

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Aymen Loukil

Infringing copyrights is not a good thing..I don't recommend basing sustainable business on this type of content.
I think it will be page level removal but honestly i have never came across a case like that.