Hi Sabrina Sorry to hear you are having the same thing happen as me. Every time I publish a course, as soon as it's announced as a new course, I get the usual Anonymous users who buy the course and the immediately refund it. Lo and behold, a couple of days later it's on the piracy sites. It's happens like clock work, without fail every time. They obviously lurk around the "newly published" lists on Udemy and target any new courses. I don't know why we can't just block anonymous users. I now expect it to happen every course. The way I deal with it is as follows. I know others will disagree: 1. Upon publishing a course and getting it approved, I immediately 'hide' the course for 2 weeks. I know it sounds counter intuitive, but in my experience, the first few purchases are 95% pirates and happens in the first week. 2. I then unhide the course after the two weeks have past and have fallen off the new lists. 3. The course I upload is a cut down version of the course I intend to publish. Therefore if it's stolen, it's of limited use to someone trying to steal the course. 4. I drip feed the content over next few weeks. 5. I inspect the student's profiles purchasing the course, and if they look legitimate (pirates stand out like a sore thumb), then I send them a message to thank for their purchase and politely ask for their patience as I upload the content. 6. Once I month, I patrol the search engines and build up a list of the URLS with links to the hosting sites. 7. I DMCA the file sharing sites and usually get the content taken down - most of the time, 95% of the piracy sites link to the same file shares. Therefore a quick email can kill the head of the snake. 8. I then use the tools in Google,Bing to take down the links of the piracy sites to cleanse the search engines of listings 9. In each of the courses, I now have a lecture at the beginning outlining the benefits of purchasing the courses - like help from me, fresh content, up to date content and the disadvantages of using a pirate copy and gently encourage them to buy from the official pages in Udemy. This may be some help to you Thanks Tim
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