Arcadoria

Copyright and DMCA

If you own rights in something that appears on this site and it should not be here, this page tells you exactly what to send, where to send it, and what we will do about it.

Last updated: 2026-07-31

Before you write: what we can and cannot remove

We do not host games. Every game is loaded from the servers of the platform that distributes it and runs inside a frame on our page. That distinction determines what a notice to us can achieve.

  • We can remove the page on this site and drop the game from our catalogue permanently. That takes the game off this site for good.
  • We cannot remove the game from the platform that serves it, and removing it here will not remove it from any other site that embeds it. For that, the notice needs to go to the distributor — GamePix or GameMonetize — who took the game on from its developer.

Send us a notice anyway if the material is on this site. We will act on it and we will pass it upstream. We just do not want you to think the problem is solved at the source when it is not.

Sending a notice

Email [email protected] with DMCA Notice in the subject line. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), your notice must include all six of the following. A notice missing any of them may not be actionable, and we will write back telling you which element is missing rather than ignoring it.

  1. Your signature. A physical or electronic signature of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, or of a person authorised to act on the owner's behalf. Typing your full name at the end of the email counts as an electronic signature.
  2. What work is infringed. Identification of the copyrighted work you say has been infringed. If several works on this site are covered by one notice, a representative list is enough.
  3. What material to remove, and where it is. Identification of the material you say is infringing, in enough detail for us to find it. In practice that means the full address of the page on this site — one URL per item. A game title alone is not enough; several games share a title.
  4. How to reach you. Your name, postal address, telephone number and email address.
  5. Good faith statement. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
  6. Accuracy statement. A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner of the exclusive right or are authorised to act on the owner's behalf.

What we will do, and how fast

  1. Acknowledgement within 2 business days. You get a reply confirming we have the notice, or telling you what is missing from it.
  2. Removal within 5 business days of a complete notice, and usually much sooner. The page comes down and its address redirects to the relevant category rather than returning a dead end.
  3. Permanent blocking. The game is added to our catalogue blocklist with the reason recorded, so that a later refresh of the game feed cannot quietly bring it back. This matters more than the removal itself: without it, an automated sync would re-admit the game within weeks.
  4. Upstream notification. We tell the platform that supplied the game that a copyright complaint was made about it.
  5. We tell you what we did. You get a confirmation with the address that was removed.

If a game is removed on copyright grounds we do not need to be persuaded twice. We take the game down first and work out the details afterwards; a browser game is not worth a dispute.

Repeat infringers

Where a developer or supplier is the subject of repeated valid complaints, we stop carrying their games entirely rather than removing them one at a time.

Counter-notice

If your game was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same address with DMCA Counter-Notice in the subject line. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) it must include:

  1. Your physical or electronic signature.
  2. Identification of the material that was removed and the address at which it appeared before it was removed.
  3. A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification.
  4. Your name, postal address and telephone number.
  5. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located — or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found — and that you will accept service of process from the person who sent the original notice, or their agent.

We will forward your counter-notice to the person who sent the original complaint. If they do not tell us within 10 business days that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material, generally between 10 and 14 business days after we forward it.

A word about false claims

Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f), anyone who knowingly and materially misrepresents that material is infringing — or that it was removed by mistake — can be liable for damages, including costs and legal fees. Send a notice about material you actually hold rights in.

Trademark and other complaints

Trademark complaints, publicity-rights complaints and anything else that is not copyright go to the same address. Describe the right you hold, the registration if there is one, the exact address of the material, and what you want done. We handle these on the same timeline even though they fall outside the DMCA process.

Not legal advice

This page describes the process we follow, referencing the framework in 17 U.S.C. chapter 5. It is not legal advice. If you are unsure whether you hold the right you are asserting, talk to a lawyer before sending a notice under penalty of perjury.

Contact

Copyright and other rights complaints: [email protected]. General enquiries go to the same address; the subject line is what routes them.