PSA for those who post to ff.net

[cairistiona]

There's apparently several spamdex accounts mirroring ff.net and thereby copying everyone's stories onto their sites with their advertisers, etc etc.

Here's a link to the post about it on mrowe's tumblr:

http://letsnaththings.tumblr.com/post/138977649992/all-fanfictionnet-stories-have-been-stolen

I found my stories on all the mirror sites and duly reported them and also emailed ff.net with the links, which has probably been done 10,000 times by others but just in case they didn't know about it. :/

So aggravating.

Comments

[shirebound]

Wow. Thank you so much for posting this.

[mrowe.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad it's only a few of my oldest stories, but reports filed. And hopefully ffnet will fix their server/database...

[dreamflower]

Thanks for the info! My stuff is all sure enough there.

If you don't mind, I'm going to pass this on to a couple of email groups.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I've passed this to S2C as he posts there - thank you. (I don't - just never got around to it...)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

I see myself on these, too. I hate hackers!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

S2C says thanks - he has reported his, too. He also says the first site on the list has already 'gone' - no fic any more but links to investment sites and so on - so all the protests & reports seem to be working.

[mikononyte.livejournal.com]

thanks for the report and links. I did the google thing, but good grief! it's been decade or more since I did a report to fanfiction.net and no idea where to start (it's changed drastically!)

any idea where to go to report this to ff.net? thanks in advance. (would dearly love to find these dexie basturds and render them into garden mulch)

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's difficult to trace by author on any of those sites but I found my Bell's Table on them all.

Thanks for the "heads up".