Signal boost: Warning: someone is fishing in LJ waters...

[cairistiona]

This site nabbed at least one of my stories; I logged a complaint so hopefully it won't happen again. This person does at least seem willing to take down stories when asked. And now to go change my tags. *sigh*


Originally posted by dreamflower02 at Warning: someone is fishing in LJ waters...

I got this warning through fanficrants. Apparently a website has cropped up that is trawling through LJ, looking for anything tagged fanfic, and then reposting it WITHOUT PERMISSION.

Here is a link: http://www.donotlink.com/framed?561309

The link diverts you from the original. It takes you to a separate page that will not show up on search engines, in order to defeat the thief's purpose of attracting search engines. (The site is full of advertising.) But as you can see, a lot of people have been complaining.

I don't know if any of my friends may have been victimized, but there's a Complaint Page, which you can go to and make him take your stuff down.

I don't have time right now to see if he's lifted any of my stories, but I will be checking as soon as I can.

(And I'm using my fanfic tag so if he steals this entry he won't be getting any real fanfic, LOL!)

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Edited to add this photo, which perfectly illustrates my feelings toward this sort of thing:


(photo credit x)

Comments

[ysilme]

Right? LOL, we may have our ship wars and our trolls and our fandom battles, but damnit, I don't care what a person is creating, it's THEIRS and only they have a right to say how it's used, and I'd defend my most despised nemesis on that fact tooth and nail. heheh.
Amen to that! I'm fully with you.

Yeah, sure, drop me a PM and I'll mail it to you. Since I last checked I saw your and mine LJ already on a now huge exception list... *g* this is -thankfully - spreading like bush fire.

[ladydragon76.livejournal.com]

I got to page... uh...14 and warned people, but I think I was coming across more duplicate people than not, so I've stopped warning for tonight. ^_^ Well, for now. Hhehe. I'll check the front page later and warn any new folks.

Also, I was given this: https://who.is/whois/fanfic-journal.com

I'm not that saavy, so I'm still translating, but I think I've emailed at least one of those addresses already. I need to look at my sent file to be sure.

PM on the way.