Stealing Other People's Stories
Heads up!
As many of you probably know, there are fanfic aggregators out there that pull content from sites like LiveJournal. One in particular has been aggressively pulling chapters of my fanfics for a while and posting them in their entirety on their website. Here's the comment I left there yesterday:
You know, I was okay when you posted a chapter of my fanfics here and there. I didn't like it, but people still had to visit my journal if they wanted to read the rest of the story. But now that you're snatching every chapter as I post it, and it's possible for readers to follow the entire story by visiting ONLY your site, you've crossed a line. I'm locking my fics down, so you'll just have to snatch content from someone else now.
Or, god forbid, actually put in some effort and create content yourself instead of stealing it.
Now I know why so many LJ writers go dark or lock down their journals. It's because of shady sites like that. I didn't see anything from AFF or AO3 on their site, but if you cross-post to places like LJ, you might want to do a google search and make sure your fics aren't being stolen by sites like that.
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