Stealing stories and charging for them.

[wallwalker]

For-profit site Ebooks Tree reposted a bunch of stuff from AO3 without permission, collects ad revenue. Search for your AO3 username and their url on Google to see if your stuff has been taken. Just confirmed this may not work.

Their DMCA info is here. This tumblr post (here) has a good summary of what to say in your takedown request.

Spread the word.

ETA: AO3 News Post on the subject, via yohjideranged.

ETA 2: The site appears to be a front for a highly untrustworthy company that has a history of scamming personal information and credit card numbers. Don't give them anything. (See link just above.)

Comments

[yohjideranged]

I am going to repost you word-for-word in my journal, just to spread the word...hope you don't mind. I will give you credit.

Writer has a story up there.... grrrr...

[sarasa_cat]

Thank you for posting this.

It seems they scraped four of my Ao3 stories plus stories from many people I follow. I just issued a takedown notice.

[adraekh]

Thanks for the notification. Luckily(?) they only(?) scraped four of my stories. Sent them a ticket and all.

[owlmoose]

Thanks for the heads up (although I reblogged the tumblr post, I actually saw this first). They have *14* of my stories, so once I get home from chorus I get to have a fun night of issuing takedown notices :P

I'd hate to have to lock down my fic to registered users only because I get a high proportion of anonymous kudos. Requiring a captcha or something to download seems like it would help, anyway.