ebook site pirating works again

I checked it yesterday. It was only the sample portion of of some of my Smashwords editions up. All but one of the download links led directly to my Smashwords page. The one link that didn't looked like it led to a download website, but Google informed me it was a phising front so I didn't bother looking further at that one. Also, they seem to have switched to a .net website today that doesn't have any of my works up.

Have they done this before? I vaguely remember something similar happening a year ago.

I was alerted to this yesterday by a friend and discovered that they had a few of my fanfics on there. They didn't steal the original short story I have on Smashwords and Amazon, though.

It looks like they got the message and took down the fanfic, though. I didn't even file any sort of complaint, but mine got taken down, which is nice. So I'm assuming they got enough flack for their practice of culling from ArchiveOfOurOwn that they decided to back away from that.

Hopefully they'll get the message in regards to the original fiction they've taken, too.

I didn't want to click on too many links, but the seem feels scammy to me. My friend clicked on some of the download links and found that they took her to different download sites. Also, it seems like they were trying to get people to sign up for a paid membership, which bothered me. I share my own writing for free all the time (especially fanfic, which I can't profit from anyway), so I don't really care on a personal level if someone distributes it to others. But dude, don't profit from it.

Thanks for giving people a heads up, Filigree.

I feel slighted. None of my stuff is there. Is my stuff that bad?

Oh, please, at least steal some of my stuff!

Helen_Rouge said:

Oh, please, at least steal some of my stuff!

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I'll steal some of your stuff.

I had three fics stolen, but they vanished when the rest of the AO3 links were taken down.