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DMCA Piracy Prevention is the worst of all similar companies. About six months ago, they sent me up to 100 fraudulent DMCA notices a day for 10 days straight. In total, they managed to remove about 1,300 URLs from Google, including those with the highest traffic. It was a nightmare. I lost a third of my traffic.
I contacted them several times and asked them to stop. Finally, I got a response from them saying that they would put me on their blacklist. I don't know if they really did, but it stopped after ten days.
Of course, I sent counter-notices to all of their DMCA notices. Just filling out all the forms every day took me an hour or two.
It took four months for Google to respond and gradually start returning the URLs to the search results. I had given up hope. I did a 301 redirect for the most important URLs to get them back into Google.
It's been half a year now, but every day I'm afraid it will start again. They are capable of destroying any website that has traffic from Google. It doesn't matter how big your website is. They are capable of sending DMCA notices with 200 URLs a day or even more.
Google won't do anything about it. I wrote them several emails and filled out several of their contact forms before I finally got a response. They said it's their policy to remove URLs after they receive a DMCA complaint. They told me to file a counter-notification and they might return the URLs to the results.
The only thing I've noticed is that Google now responds much faster to counter-notices. It no longer takes four months, but maybe two days.
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