I can sympathize with companies that face the very difficult challenge of policing user-submitted content, but Udemy has always seemed really sketchy to me.<p>Earlier this year, I got inundated with Twitter spam from bots that were written to abuse Udemy&#x27;s affiliate linking program. I made several attempts to bring the issue to Udemy&#x27;s attention, but the company was totally ambivalent and didn&#x27;t really care. I eventually configured my Twitter client to completely filter out any message that contains &quot;Udemy&quot; so that I wouldn&#x27;t have to see a dozen or so obnoxious mentions directed at me every time I post a tweet with a programming-related keyword.<p>It doesn&#x27;t surprise me much that their approach to addressing piracy is similarly lackadaisical. I doubt that they would have done anything at all beyond the bare minimum required by the DMCA if the issue hadn&#x27;t escalated and produced widespread criticism.