A page removed this week can be reachable again next week at the same address, and nobody tells the person who filed. Submit up to three URLs with an email address and openDMCA re-checks each one weekly, writing only when a URL changes between reachable and gone.
Given up to three URLs, produce a weekly re-check and an email when one changes state.
Free: 3 URLs, re-checked weekly, for as long as you want them watched. Those three watches are the same check and the same notification a paid account gets — the cap is on how many, not on how well.
One per line, up to 3. Paste addresses you have already filed against — the watch tells you if one comes back.
A confirmation link is sent first. Nothing is checked until you use it.
This page is the one that keeps what you submit, because a notification cannot be sent about a URL that was discarded. openDMCA stores the URL and your email, confirms the address is yours before checking anything, and every message carries a one-click unsubscribe.
How to keep a leak watchlist by hand
A leak watchlist is a list of addresses you have already filed against, re-opened on a schedule. Doing it by hand needs nothing more than a spreadsheet and a recurring reminder.
One row per URL. Columns for the address, the date you filed, the date it came down, and the date you last looked.
A weekly reminder. Open every URL whose last-looked date is older than the reminder, and update the row from what you see rather than from what you expect.
Record the status code where you can. A page that returns 404 or 410 is gone; a page that returns 403 is usually a login wall or a geo-block, and reading that as a removal is the single most common self-inflicted error in this work.
When a URL comes back, treat it as a new case rather than a continuation. The notice you already sent covered the state the page was in then.
A spreadsheet like this genuinely works, and plenty of creators run one well. The honest reason it is worth keeping rather than replacing is that it is yours, you built it, and you can read it at a glance.
Where keeping the leak watchlist by hand stops working
A hand-kept leak watchlist breaks on three things, and only the third is about effort.
It only contains what you already found. Every row is a URL you discovered. Copies on sites you have not thought to search, and pages search engines never indexed, are not in the list and cannot be, which makes a clean sheet ambiguous — it may mean nothing is out there, or that nothing new has been found.
Re-uploads land at new addresses. Watching an address tells you about that address. The copy that appears next month is a different URL on a possibly different host, and no amount of watching the old one surfaces it.
The reminder stops being kept. Weekly manual re-checking survives about two months in practice, and it lapses quietly rather than deliberately.
Why does the leak watchlist store my email when the other tools store nothing?
Because a notification cannot be sent about a URL that was discarded. It is a subscription rather than a one-off lookup, so it keeps the URL and the address, confirms the address is yours first, and carries an unsubscribe link on every message.
Why only three URLs?
Three is the honest free cap, stated before you start. Those three watches are identical to the ones a paid account gets — the same weekly check, the same alert. What an account adds is more of them, and a scan that finds copies you have not found yourself.
Why do I have to confirm by email?
So nobody can put your address on somebody else's watchlist. Until the confirmation link is used, nothing is checked and nothing further is sent, which is the only way to accept an address a stranger typed without creating a way to harass people.
What counts as a change?
A move between reachable and gone. Only 404, 410 and 451 count as gone; a 403 is usually a login wall or a geo-block, and treating that as a removal would send you good news that is not true.
Will it tell me every week that a URL is still up?
No. Mail is sent when a URL changes state, not on a schedule. A weekly message saying nothing happened gets unsubscribed from within a month, and then the one that matters does not get read either.