DMCA Notice and Takedown Procedure

Effective: 2026-04-11 · Last updated: 2026-04-11

walkindb respects the intellectual property rights of others. This page explains how to submit a notice of allegedly infringing material under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512, and how walkindb processes such notices.

If you are not in the United States, you may also use this procedure, or you may rely on the equivalent notice-and-action mechanism under the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). For DSA-specific notices, see /legal/aup (“Notice and action”).

Designated agent (US Section 512(c)(2))

For the limitation of liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) to apply, the designated agent for receiving notifications of claimed infringement is:

walkindb — DMCA Designated Agent
Email: dmca@walkindb.com

Postal address and telephone number will be published here once the agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office.

Status: Not yet registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Registration will be completed before the public launch of the Service. In the interim, notices sent to dmca@walkindb.com are still acted upon under the procedure below; this notice exists primarily so that the safe-harbor rules under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) are correctly relied on once registration is complete.

How to submit a takedown notice

To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3)(A), your notice must include all of the following:

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works.
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to permit walkindb to locate the material. Because walkindb instances live for ~10 minutes, please include the instance ID, the approximate timestamp (UTC) of the request, and the source IP address that submitted the material if you know it. Without these, we will likely no longer have any record of the material by the time we receive your notice.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit walkindb to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and email address.
  5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Send notices to dmca@walkindb.com.

What walkindb does on receipt of a valid notice

  1. We acknowledge receipt within 48 hours.
  2. We attempt to identify the relevant instance and source IP from our access logs. Because we retain access logs for only 7 days, we cannot act on notices about events older than 7 days. Submit promptly.
  3. If the relevant instance still exists, we terminate it immediately.
  4. If the source IP appears to be repeatedly involved in alleged infringement, we block the IP going forward.
  5. We preserve the relevant log entries (timestamp, IP, instance ID) for the duration of any subsequent legal process and provide them to the complaining party or to law enforcement on lawful request.

Counter-notification

Because walkindb is anonymous and instances are ephemeral, counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g) is largely impractical: by the time you would file a counter-notice, the instance no longer exists and there is nothing to “restore.” However, if you believe your IP was blocked in error, you may contact abuse@walkindb.com and we will review.

Repeat infringers

In accordance with 17 U.S.C. § 512(i), walkindb has adopted and reasonably implemented a policy of terminating access in appropriate circumstances of users who are repeat infringers. For an anonymous service, this takes the form of long-term IP blocks against IPs that are the subject of multiple credible infringement notices.

Misrepresentations

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys’ fees, incurred by walkindb or by the alleged infringer. Do not submit notices in bad faith.

EU equivalent

If you are in the European Union, the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) provides an equivalent notice-and-action mechanism. You may use the procedure above, or you may submit a notice via abuse@walkindb.com referencing the DSA. The required elements (Article 16 DSA) overlap substantially with the DMCA elements above. We treat both routes equivalently.

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