DMCA Policy

Overview

D-Store is a sideloading catalog: most listed apps are open-source or otherwise freely licensed, and each app’s page discloses its license and, where available, a link to its source. That said, we respond to valid copyright takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for any listing that infringes a copyright.

This isn’t the same as “Report this app”

Every app page has an anonymous “Report this app” form with a Copyright / DMCA issue option, meant for quickly flagging a listing for someone to look into. It’s deliberately anonymous — no accounts, no identity check — so it can’t carry what a legally valid DMCA notice requires: your contact information and a signature. Use that form for a quick flag; use the process below for a formal takedown notice.

Filing a takedown notice

To file a valid DMCA takedown notice, send us a written notice that includes:

• A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized to act on their behalf.
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed.
• Identification of the material you claim is infringing, with enough detail for us to locate it — the app’s name and its D-Store page URL is sufficient.
• Your contact information: name, address, phone number, and email address.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on their behalf.

Send notices to [designated-agent email — placeholder, needs a real address before production]. Incomplete notices may delay our response while we ask for the missing information.

What happens next

On receiving a valid notice, we remove or disable access to the identified listing and notify whoever submitted it, where we have a way to reach them. Removal doesn’t require us to make a determination on the underlying copyright claim — that’s what the counter-notice process below is for.

Counter-notice

If you believe a listing was removed in error or misidentification, you may file a counter-notice including:

• Your physical or electronic signature.
• Identification of the material that was removed, and where it appeared before removal.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
• Your name, address, and phone number, and a statement consenting to the jurisdiction of the federal court for your district (or, if outside the US, an appropriate judicial district).

Send counter-notices to the same address above. Upon receiving a valid counter-notice, we may restore the material within the timeframe the DMCA specifies, unless the original notice-sender informs us they’ve filed a court action seeking an order to restrain the alleged infringer.

Repeat infringers

We reserve the right to remove listings, and to not re-list an app, where we’ve received repeated valid takedown notices concerning it.

Not legal advice

This page describes our process; it isn’t legal advice about whether a specific notice or counter-notice is valid. If you’re unsure, consider consulting an attorney before filing.

Related policies

See our Privacy Policy for how we handle data, and our Terms of Service for the license and copyright terms that apply to the catalog generally.