Why: DMCA takedown request is a very specific process and it requests immediate removal of content. Poster can then dispute it to get it restored. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brainz.org&#x2F;dmca-takedown-101&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;brainz.org&#x2F;dmca-takedown-101&#x2F;</a>) As far as I understand your post, that&#x27;s not what you submitted since modifying the content &#x2F; replacing the author is not one of the DMCA outcomes.<p>Possible: &quot;Asking SE to reown&#x2F;remove plagiarised content&quot;<p>Why reowning is a bad idea? Because you didn&#x27;t create that post and the post has effects inside of SE system (reputation, comment addressing, etc.). Nothing of course stops you from requesting a takedown and posting the same content again from your own account. Request to reown some already posted content seems a bit dodgy to me.