Free DMCA Website Protection?

There are no signup costs or monthly fees to have a Protection Badge on your website.
The DMCA Protection service is absolutely free of charge. This free service also includes:

• a complete selection of over 100 Protection Badge style choices
• create your own custom badge option
• registration into the DMCA.com ProtectionPortal, where you can access a number of additional free and paid protection services.
• Protected page index - a complete list of all website pages protected by the DMCA badge.
• Free website photo Watermarker tool

It is very important however to register your account before placing a free Protection Badge on your website. By registering first, whatever website pages and content you want protected will be listed in the DMCA Portal as "protected pages" under your account name. The free takedown service offer cannot occur without you registering your account first.
DMCA.com does have a pay service for website protection which includes the above but also has a number of tools and services for webmasters to protect their website content PLUS content takedowns when content is stolen.