Copyright and content complaints

This page explains how to tell the operator of modsdrop.com that something on this site infringes your rights or is otherwise unlawful, what happens to your report, and what you can do if you disagree with the decision. It is the notice and action mechanism required by Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the Digital Services Act (the “DSA”).

Operator: Máté Geszti (CrashMozi), a private individual resident in Hungary, not a company. Postal address: XVII. utca 4., 5400 Mezőtúr. Email: [email protected]. The servers and the files are in Germany. That email address is also the single point of contact under Articles 11 and 12 DSA, for authorities and for users alike. Notices and messages are accepted in English and in Hungarian.

Read this first: where the files come from

• Uploading is not open to the public yet. Every file on modsdrop.com at the moment was placed here by the operator; there are no user uploads.
• That does not mean he made them. Most are game mods made by other people, carried over from crashmods.com.
• Because the files were put here by the operator and not by a user of the service, he does not claim the hosting liability exemption in Article 6 DSA for them. He is answerable for what he has put here and will deal with your complaint directly.
• If you made a mod that is on this site and you would rather it were not here, you do not need to prove anything or send a formal notice. Identify the page and say so. A short message is enough and the file will be taken down.
• Game titles, publisher logos, screenshots and in-game assets belong to their owners and are used only to say which game a mod is for — see the Terms of Service. If a page uses your marks in a way you object to, use the form on this page.

What a notice must contain

To count as a valid notice under Article 16(2) DSA — and so that it can actually be acted on — your notice needs all of the following:

• Why the content is unlawful. A sufficiently substantiated explanation of the reasons you consider the material illegal. For copyright, that means which work of yours it copies and on what basis you say the copy is unauthorised.
• Where it is. The exact electronic location of each item complained of: a full URL for every page or file, not a search result, a category listing or a screenshot.
• Who you are. Your name and email address. If you are acting for someone else — an author, a studio, a publisher — say who you act for and in what capacity. The DSA does not require a name or an email address where the report concerns one of the offences in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU (child sexual abuse material). The form on this page does ask for an email address; if you need to report without giving one, use the Report link on the file’s own page, where the address is optional.
• A good faith statement. A confirmation that you believe in good faith that the information and allegations in your notice are accurate and complete.

Helpful, though not required: something showing that you hold the rights (a store page, a release post, the original upload, a repository), the date you first published the work, and whether you want the file removed outright or only corrected — credited properly, for instance, or pointed at your own download.

A complete notice of this kind gives the operator actual knowledge of the content complained of. A bare report (“this is stolen”, with no link and no explanation) does not, and cannot be acted on.

Send your notice

Use the form below. It emails the notice to the operator and also saves it on the site as a private entry, so nothing is lost in a mailbox. An email address is required on this form, because without one there is no way to confirm receipt or to tell you what was decided.

Your notice (include the ModsDrop link of the file)Your e-mailWebsite Send

The same notice can be sent by email to [email protected] or by post to XVII. utca 4., 5400 Mezőtúr. The form is the fastest route.

There are two other ways in. Every file page carries a Report link, which reaches the same place; an email address is optional there, but if you leave it out the operator has no way to reply. For unlawful content that is not a copyright matter, use the contact form and describe the problem.

What happens next

• Confirmation of receipt. The operator confirms by email that your notice arrived. He writes that reply himself — there is no automatic acknowledgement — so allow a little time. If you gave no email address, no confirmation can be sent.
• A human decides. Notices are read and decided by the operator personally. No automated system decides whether content stays or goes, and no automated filter is applied to incoming notices.
• Timing. Notices are dealt with without undue delay. The site opened in September 2026 and one person runs it, so there is no track record to point at yet; the aim is a few days, and simple cases the same day. Orders from competent authorities are acted on as soon as they arrive.
• The decision, with reasons. You are told by email what was decided and why, and how to challenge that decision if you disagree with it. If your notice is refused, you are told on what basis. The reply also states whether automated means were used in handling your notice; at present they never are.
• The other side is told too. If material was supplied by somebody other than the operator, that person receives a statement of reasons under Article 17 DSA (see below). While uploading is closed, this does not arise: everything here was put here by the operator.

What removal actually means here

Taking a file down means the operator moves its page to the bin. The page disappears from the site and from the catalogue, and no new download link can be issued for it. Download links are signed and last six hours, so a link handed out shortly before the takedown stops working within that window. The stored file itself stays on the server unless the operator deletes it as a separate step. If you want the file deleted and not merely unreachable, say so in your notice and he will delete it.

If content you provided is acted on: statement of reasons

This becomes relevant once uploading opens to the public. If the operator removes, hides or restricts access to content you provided, or restricts your access to the service, you are sent a statement of reasons under Article 17 DSA. It says:

• what was done — removal, hiding, blocking, suspension — where it applies and for how long;
• the facts and circumstances relied on, and whether the action followed somebody else’s notice or the operator’s own check;
• whether automated means were used (at present they are not);
• the legal ground, where the content was treated as illegal, or the term of the Terms of Service relied on, where it was treated as a breach of the rules, with an explanation of why it was applied; and
• how to challenge the decision.

Challenging a decision

If you sent a notice and it was refused, or content of yours was removed or restricted, you can complain about that decision. Articles 20, 21 and 23 DSA bind online platforms. While nobody but the operator can upload, this site is a hosting service and not an online platform, so those routes are offered here voluntarily rather than owed. They are followed as written.

• You have six months from the day you were told of the decision.
• Complaining is free of charge. Use the form on this page, or the contact form, and say that you are challenging a decision. Quote the page and the date.
• Complaints are handled by a person, not by software, and are considered properly rather than dismissed out of hand.
• If the complaint shows the decision was wrong, it is reversed without undue delay — the page is restored, or the file comes down, as the case may be — and you are told the outcome and the reasons for it.

Out-of-court dispute settlement and the courts

You do not have to use the complaint route above, and using it does not stop you going elsewhere.

• Out-of-court dispute settlement. Disputes about these decisions may be put to an out-of-court dispute settlement body certified by a Digital Services Coordinator in the EU, along the lines of Article 21 DSA. Such a body’s decision is not binding on either party. The operator will engage in good faith with a properly certified body.
• Supervisory authority. In Hungary the Digital Services Coordinator is the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH). You may lodge a complaint with it about how content on this site is handled.
• Courts. Nothing on this page affects your right to go to court.

False and abusive notices

A notice is a serious statement. Sending one you know to be false, or claiming rights you do not hold, can make you liable for the damage caused and may be a criminal matter. Every notice received is kept on record. After a warning, the operator may stop processing further notices from anyone who repeatedly submits manifestly unfounded ones — the approach Article 23 DSA sets out for platforms.

Repeated infringement

Uploading is closed, so there are no user accounts to act against. When uploading opens, accounts that repeatedly upload infringing material will be warned, then suspended, and in serious or persistent cases closed. That rule will be written into the Terms of Service before uploading opens.

The United States and the DMCA

This is an EU site run by a private individual in Hungary, and it is worth being straight about what that means under US law:

• The operator has not registered a designated agent with the United States Copyright Office. Without that registration the safe harbour in 17 U.S.C. §512(c) is not available, and this page does not claim it or pretend to have an agent.
• Because there is no safe harbour there is also no §512 counter-notice procedure and no ten to fourteen day put-back clock. The complaint route described above takes its place.
• None of that changes the practical outcome for a rightholder. Send a notice containing the information listed on this page and the material will be dealt with on its merits, promptly and voluntarily, exactly as an EU notice is.
• If you send a notice drafted in the usual DMCA form it will be accepted and treated as a notice under this page. You do not need to redraft it.

What is kept about your notice

A notice records the reason you chose, your message (up to 4,000 characters), your email address if you gave one, and the IP address the notice was sent from. It is saved as a private entry on the site, readable only by the operator, and emailed to him through Brevo, an email provider in the EU. It is kept while it is needed to handle the complaint, to reverse the decision if you challenge it, and to keep a record of repeated or abusive notices.

Separately, and for every visitor to every page, the web server writes an access log: your IP address, the time, the page requested, your browser’s user agent and the number of bytes sent. The site sets no cookies for visitors who are not logged in and runs no analytics. The Privacy Policy gives the full picture and explains your rights over that data.

Last updated: 20 September 2026.