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Update to story theft debacle
Apr. 14th, 2015 05:56 amUpdate to story theft debacle posted here:
Searching for your username and using the site:www.ebooks-tree.com selector will not return results, even if you have stories there. I just tested it with several authors (myself included) that I know were hit. I haven't found another way to search for users, besides going to the site and using its search engine.
Do not visit that site without up-to-date virus protection and AdBlock. Get a friend to search for you, if necessary. And if they ask you for anything, leave and run a scan, just in case. (I might be overly cautious, but better safe than sorry.)
On the bright side, considering that they apparently have full-text versions of original published fiction on their site as well (i.e. full works by Rowling, Gaiman, Scalzi, etc...,) they're not going to last long. Not on that URL, anyway.
Searching for your username and using the site:www.ebooks-tree.com selector will not return results, even if you have stories there. I just tested it with several authors (myself included) that I know were hit. I haven't found another way to search for users, besides going to the site and using its search engine.
Do not visit that site without up-to-date virus protection and AdBlock. Get a friend to search for you, if necessary. And if they ask you for anything, leave and run a scan, just in case. (I might be overly cautious, but better safe than sorry.)
On the bright side, considering that they apparently have full-text versions of original published fiction on their site as well (i.e. full works by Rowling, Gaiman, Scalzi, etc...,) they're not going to last long. Not on that URL, anyway.
