Guide
Best DMCA takedown services for ecommerce brands
By Josh Pigford, founder of Knockoff
For a Shopify brand whose product photos keep turning up on copycat stores and marketplace listings, Knockoff is the DMCA takedown service built for the whole job. It finds the copies, files each notice as your authorized agent on Shopify stores, eBay, Walmart and Temu, and handles any counter-notice, for $799 a month.
Most of the other seven were built for someone else: creators chasing pirated content, legal teams with big trademark portfolios, or store owners who'd rather send the notices themselves.
How do the DMCA takedown services compare?
Only two of the eight find the copies, send every notice for you and put a monthly price on their site: Knockoff at $799, and Red Points at $938 before you add a single marketplace. Prices are as published on October 22, 2026.
| Service | Finds the copies? | Who sends the notice | Where it files | Published price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knockoff | Yes, every day | Knockoff, as your authorized agent | Shopify stores, eBay, Walmart, Temu, plus web hosts and registrars for lookalike sites | $799 a month |
| DMCA.com | No, you send the URL | DMCA.com's team | The site you name; its order form lists eBay, Amazon, Etsy, social platforms and "any other website" | $199 per site |
| Red Points | Yes | Red Points | Marketplaces you add, such as Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Temu, each priced separately | $938 a month base, plus add-ons |
| Bustem | Yes | Bustem's team | Amazon, TikTok Shop, Temu, Shopify, Meta and Instagram, Alibaba and AliExpress, Reddit | None published |
| Brand Protector | Yes | You approve each one; on some platforms you finish the filing | Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, AliExpress, TikTok Shop, Temu, Shein | $199 a month |
| Pixsy | Yes, by reverse image search | You send takedowns; on recovery cases Pixsy acts as your agent | Names no platforms | Free for 500 images; 50% of any recovery |
| Podqi | Yes | Podqi, mostly without a person checking | "All major marketplaces" | None on its homepage |
| Recon | Clone stores and lookalike domains only | Templates for you to send | Copycat Shopify stores and lookalike domains | Free, or $50 a month for Pro |
Which DMCA takedown services are worth a look?
1. Knockoff
Knockoff is for Shopify brands that want stolen product photos found and taken down without becoming their own paralegal. You connect your store by its domain, with no API key and no access to your orders or customers. Every day Knockoff searches the open web for your catalog's photos, and it only counts a match when your photo is in the seller's own listing gallery.
You sign one Letter of Authorization. From then on a person at Knockoff files each confirmed copy as your authorized agent, whether it's on a Shopify store, eBay, Walmart or Temu, and reports lookalike sites to their web host or registrar. Every case comes with the notice, an archived copy of the page, a timestamped screenshot and a side-by-side comparison of your photo and theirs. Each removed listing is checked daily for 90 days, and if your photo comes back, a follow-up goes in. It's $799 a month, billed monthly, with no contract and a 30-day money-back guarantee that ends when we file your first notice.
2. DMCA.com
DMCA.com is a private takedown company built around one-off cases. You find the page with your photo, copy its URL and order a takedown; its team reviews the case and sends the notice. Standard is $199 per site, Premium $399 and Platinum $599, and a do-it-yourself toolkit is $10 a month.
For a store, the bill is per site. Copies on five stores in a month cost $995 at the Standard price, and its guarantee page says removing a copy that is re-posted "constitutes a new takedown service not covered". Handling a counterclaim is listed on Platinum only. Walmart and Temu aren't on its takedowns page. Our DMCA.com review has the full breakdown.
3. Red Points
Red Points is an enterprise brand protection company that also sells a self-serve plan. It finds listings itself and files for the brand. Its self-serve page shows a $938 a month base plan, billed monthly, with each marketplace added on top (eBay $240 a month, Walmart $30, Amazon $285) and each registered trademark priced separately, from $174 a month for one.
Self-serve still means a contract: the same page says no fees are charged "until contract signing and service start". More in our Red Points review.
4. Bustem
Bustem is a managed service whose team files takedowns and follows them up. Its quote page lists Amazon, TikTok Shop, Temu, Shopify, Meta and Instagram, Alibaba and AliExpress and Reddit, and offers per-takedown plans with a free re-takedown within 14 days if a listing comes back.
You won't see a price up front. The quote page says "we don't publish a price list", and its terms set a default term of twelve months that renews unless you give 30 days' written notice. See our Bustem review.
5. Brand Protector
Brand Protector is self-serve software at $199 a month, month to month, with a seven-day free trial. It scans marketplaces including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Etsy, AliExpress, TikTok Shop, Temu and Shein, and prepares notices.
Part of the filing stays your job. Its site says "You approve every notice; some platforms require you to complete filing." Shopify stores aren't one of the places it scans: you install its Shopify app to import your photos as references. Amazon scanning needs your connected seller account, and Walmart needs your seller API keys.
6. Pixsy
Pixsy finds copies of your images with reverse image search and is built to get you paid for them. Monitoring 500 images is free, and on cases it takes, Pixsy acts as your exclusive agent and keeps 50% of the recovery, with no fee if there's no recovery.
A copycat store selling your product with your photo is a removal job first, and Pixsy's FAQ names no marketplaces and doesn't mention DMCA counter-notices.
7. Podqi
Podqi sells automated brand protection: it finds infringing listings and stores, including ones using stolen imagery, and files takedowns. Its homepage offers a demo and publishes no price.
The limit is who checks the notice. Podqi's homepage says it "detects, evaluates, and files takedowns automatically, handling 95% of enforcement without a human in the loop". Whoever sends a takedown notice swears under penalty of perjury that they're authorized to, so ask about that on the demo.
8. Recon
Recon is a Shopify app that watches for clone stores and lookalike domains. Its App Store listing shows a free plan and a Pro plan at $50 a month or $480 a year, with DMCA takedown templates and emails.
Recon tells you about a clone and hands you the paperwork. The listing offers templates and doesn't say anyone sends them for you, and it watches clone stores, not marketplace listings. It launched on December 29, 2025 and had no reviews when we read it.
What should a store owner check before paying for one?
Sending the notice is the last few minutes of the job. The rest is finding the copies, proving they're yours and dealing with what comes back, and that work is what a takedown service is for. Ask any service these three things.
Does it find the copies, or do you?
A service that needs your URLs is selling the paperwork. Finding a copycat store means searching for every product photo you own, and doing it again next week. If you'd rather start by checking, our guide to finding stolen product photos shows how to search by hand.
Who signs the notice?
US law lets a notice be signed by the owner or a person authorized to act for them, and that person states under penalty of perjury that they're authorized. A service that files as your agent needs that authority in writing; one that prepares the notice and has you send it leaves the filing with you.
Can it file where your copies are?
Every platform has its own filing process, and an agent has to handle each one. From running our own filing desk: Shopify takes one notice per copycat store on its online form, listing every stolen photo on that store's pages, and sends no acknowledgement back. eBay approves each rights owner against the uploaded authorization letter before an agent can file, which can take up to 72 hours. Walmart doesn't let agencies into its Brand Portal at all, so the brand registers once and invites its agent. Temu takes an authorization letter with the complaint. A store on its own domain gets its notice at the web host. Ask a service how it handles each place your copies turn up, not whether it "covers marketplaces".
What happens when the seller files a counter-notice?
The seller says the takedown was a mistake, and a waiting period starts. Under 17 U.S.C. 512(g), the platform puts the listing back no sooner than 10 and no later than 14 business days after it receives the counter-notice, unless you tell it you've filed a court action. Shopify's policy follows the same 10 to 14 business days.
It isn't rare. Etsy's 2025 transparency report says sellers filed counter-notices on 10% of the copyright reports it received.
So ask who receives it. The platform answers whoever filed the notice. With Knockoff, that's us: we record the date the platform received it, send you the document and the date the listing can come back, and the decision to go to court or to the Copyright Claims Board is yours. Copies that come back without a counter-notice are a different problem, and our guide to listings that return after a takedown covers it.
Is there a free DMCA takedown service?
Yes. Sending the notice yourself is free. Shopify, eBay, Walmart and Temu all take copyright complaints on their own forms, and you don't need a lawyer to send one. For one copy on one store, do it yourself: our DMCA takedown notice template lists what the notice must say, the free notice generator writes it from your details, and the Shopify DMCA takedown guide walks through Shopify's form. When new copies keep turning up, that's when a service earns its fee.
One thing no DMCA service can do: a DMCA notice protects your photos, not your product. A copycat that shot its own photos of a lookalike product needs a trademark or a design patent, and our guide to copyright vs trademark explains which covers what.
How did we pick these eight?
We kept the services a store owner with stolen product photos could hire. We left out services built for other jobs, like DMCA Force, whose site is about protecting creators' content on fan sites and social platforms.
For a wider view of the market, including the enterprise brand protection companies, see the best brand protection companies. To see whether your photos are being copied right now, run a free scan of 20 of your products.
Questions
How much does a DMCA agent cost? +
A DMCA agent is a different thing from a takedown service. It's the contact a website registers with the US Copyright Office to receive copyright complaints, and the Office charges $6 to file or amend that designation. A store owner sending takedowns doesn't need one. The sites you send notices to do.
What happens if you get a DMCA takedown? +
The platform removes the listing or content and tells you. Shopify, for example, informs the merchant in their Shopify admin. If you believe the notice is a mistake, you can file a counter-notice to ask for it back.
Do you need a registered copyright to send a DMCA takedown? +
No. Your product photos are protected by copyright from the moment you take them, and a takedown notice doesn't ask for a registration number. Registration matters later: US law requires it before you can sue over a US work.
