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Rights Center

Last updated: 6 September 2026

shotMod hosts nothing. The on-device tools never upload a file, and the link tools hand you bytes straight from Instagram's own CDN without keeping a copy of our own — so there is no shotMod library of anyone's media to take down. If your work was stolen or someone is pretending to be you, the report has to go to Instagram, and this page routes you to the right form.

What shotMod hosts (nothing)

You can open your own files here, but nothing you open is uploaded, and there is no media library behind this site. Cloak, GridSlice, GlyphKit, CutOut, ExportKit and InstaScribe's "Upload file" tab decode the file inside your browser tab, and it never reaches a server. ReelVault, SoundPull, FrameForge, PostLens, SlideStack and InstaScribe also resolve a public Instagram link you paste and stream the bytes from Instagram's own CDN to your browser through a proxy. That proxy stores nothing of its own — it passes the bytes straight through — but it does mark them cacheable for an hour, so your browser and the CDN in front of this site may hold a short-lived copy of something you fetched.

So a takedown notice aimed at shotMod has nothing to remove: no library, no stored file, and nothing that outlives that hour. We cannot delete an Instagram post, disable an account, or reach a file a visitor has already saved to their own device. Only Instagram can act on the post itself.

shotMod is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Instagram or Meta. Instagram is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.

Report it to Instagram

Instagram is the only party that can take a post down, disable an impostor account, or put something back that it removed by mistake. Three forms cover almost everything. Each link below was opened and read on the date shown, and a script re-checks them rather than trusting a bookmark — one widely-shared Instagram report URL is already dead and quietly bounces to the Help Centre home page. If you are not sure which of them applies to you, ClaimDesk asks four questions and routes you to exactly one of them, then builds a timestamped evidence pack from the public post link.

  • Someone reposted your photo, video or Reel

    Copyright Report FormChecked 6 Sep 2026

    The direct route when the content is yours and someone else posted it. It opened for us with no logged-in session on 6 Sep 2026, but Instagram may still ask you to sign in before it accepts a report.

    Open on Instagram

  • Your brand name or logo is being used

    Reporting a Violation or Infringement of Your Rights on Instagram or ThreadsChecked 6 Sep 2026

    Pick copyright or trademark on the first screen. Use this one for a brand name or a logo rather than a single stolen post.

    Open on Instagram

  • A fake account is pretending to be you

    Report an Impersonation Account on Instagram or ThreadsChecked 6 Sep 2026

    Instagram's own help article says you can use this even if you do not have an Instagram account. The URL most search results still hand out for this form is dead and bounces to the Help Centre home page, so start from the link here.

    Open on Instagram

Background reading (Instagram's own pages)

These three are Help Centre articles, and Instagram serves their text inside a JSON route payload rather than as ordinary page markup: fetch one and the page body renders no readable characters at all until JavaScript runs. The words are in the response though — that payload is where the working impersonation-form link above came from — so when this page quotes an article it is quoting the payload, not a page you could read with JavaScript switched off. The three forms above are ordinary server-rendered pages, so we check their headings instead.

If you send us a takedown request about a link

We do not host the media, so there is nothing on our servers for us to delete. What we can do is put one specific URL on the resolver's block list, so shotMod stops resolving it.

Email [email protected] with the exact public Instagram URL, what right of yours it infringes, and enough for us to see that the right is yours — your account handle, the original file, a registration number, whatever you have. If you are acting for someone else, say who. There is no form on this page on purpose: a form would collect personal data we have promised not to collect.

We will reply by email. If the claim is coherent, that URL goes on the resolver's block list and stops resolving in the next release. Being exact about it: there is no block list in the shipped code today, because nobody has asked for one yet, so the first request is the one that creates it — that is part of why this takes days rather than minutes. We will not act on a request that does not name a specific URL, and we will not block a whole account or hashtag. It is handled by hand by a small team.

Blocking a URL here changes nothing on Instagram. The post stays up, every other tool on the internet still works, and anyone who already downloaded it still has the file. If you want the post gone, the forms above are the only route that does that.

Our DMCA designated agent

shotMod has not registered a DMCA designated agent with the U.S. Copyright Office yet, so this page prints no postal address. A designated-agent record is a public filing; publishing one we have not filed would be worse than publishing none.

Until it is filed, send rights notices to [email protected]. When the designation is registered, the agent's name and address will appear in this section and the date at the top of this page will change.

You can look up any service's registered agent — including Meta's — in the Copyright Office's own directory.

  • Look up a registered DMCA agent

    DMCA Designated Agent DirectoryChecked 6 Sep 2026

    The U.S. Copyright Office's own searchable register. This is where a designation for shotMod will appear once it is filed.

    Open the directory

Rights Center — questions, answered

Does shotMod host my Instagram video?

No. The on-device tools never upload a file, and the link tools stream Instagram's own CDN bytes to your browser without storing them here. Those responses stay cacheable for an hour, so a cache may hold a short-lived copy, but there is no shotMod library of anyone's media to take down.

Someone reposted my Reel. Who do I report it to?

Instagram, because Instagram is the only party that can remove the post. Its Copyright Report Form is the direct route, and the combined rights form covers trademark as well; both are linked on this page with the date we last opened them.

Someone made a fake account pretending to be me. What do I do?

Use Instagram's impersonation report form, which its own help article says works even if you do not have an Instagram account. The URL most search results still hand out for that form is dead and bounces to the Help Centre home page, so use the link on this page instead.

Can shotMod stop people downloading my post?

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. shotMod only resolves links that are already public, and anyone with a browser can save the same bytes without us. If you do not want a post downloaded, make the account private or take the post down.

Will you stop resolving a specific link if I ask?

Yes. Email [email protected] with the exact public Instagram URL and what right of yours it infringes, and we will add that URL to the resolver's block list in the next release. It does not remove the post from Instagram; only Instagram's own report form does that.

Who is shotMod's DMCA designated agent?

We have not registered one yet, so this page publishes no postal address. Send rights notices to [email protected] in the meantime, and the agent's details will appear here once the designation is filed with the U.S. Copyright Office.

Related

Our Terms of Service cover what you may use shotMod for; our Privacy Policy covers what we do and do not collect, and ClaimDesk turns this page's links into a step-by-step route.