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Attention fanfic writers!!
Apr. 13th, 2015 11:17 pmJust a heads up to all my flisties. I found five stories of mine pilfered to this site, so this is no joke! Even if you're not a prolific writer, go and check, they scraped all those stories with bots (conceivably the reason AO3 was down a couple of weeks ago) and without the consent of the OTW.
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felisblanco at Attention fanfic writers!!
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felisblanco at Attention fanfic writers!!Some assholes are pulling fic from AO3 and other places without the authors' permission and putting them up on their own site where they make money off them with ads etc. Please search it to see if your stuff is there (you can search by author), then check here for more info, like how to demand they be taken down.
I found four of my own fic, randomly selected by a bot it seems. I sent them an email, demanding they remove my fic, although that was before I read the very helpful instructions provided in the link above. Maybe I should send them another. OTW is on the case, hopefully that will help shut this shit down.
I'm fucking furious. Assholes making money of fanfic writers' free but very hard labour. Not to mention how it fucks with the whole "fair use" idea. Fuck you, assholes. Fuck you very hard in the ass with a barbed wire.
I found four of my own fic, randomly selected by a bot it seems. I sent them an email, demanding they remove my fic, although that was before I read the very helpful instructions provided in the link above. Maybe I should send them another. OTW is on the case, hopefully that will help shut this shit down.
I'm fucking furious. Assholes making money of fanfic writers' free but very hard labour. Not to mention how it fucks with the whole "fair use" idea. Fuck you, assholes. Fuck you very hard in the ass with a barbed wire.
