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http://www.npr.org/2012/01/29/146053943/on-amazon-an-uneasy-mix-of-plagiarism-and-erotica
Shar says she found instances of plagiarism in every single book published by Cruz, mostly from the website Literotica, where people can upload stories for free.

Luke Ethan, another erotica author, also published and sold a book lifted from Literotica. The real author was Dave Springer, a security officer who also happens to write erotica.

Springer says he wasn't upset to learn his story had been published without his consent.

"I thought it was funny," Springer tells NPR's Raz. "I was complimented to think that somebody thought my writing was good enough to try and sell to other folks. And I thought it was funny that the poor souls who were paying $3 for 28 pages online could have gotten it online from several different places for free."
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How odd, a reverse version of what the SOPA bill was about.

There's a sucker born every minute!
 
Now all the idiots will be hunting for Luke...



:rolleyes:

At least we know it's not Throb, he has no talent.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
Now all the idiots will be hunting for Luke...

:rolleyes:

At least we know it's not Throb, he has no talent.
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Well, chief, not all of us can be "black belts" in 6 different forms of karate, with multiple Navy Crosses, or have degrees in "Mathmatics" (sic).

I do know, however, that one dollar, one quarter and one nickel is not 91 cents.
 
4est_4est_Gump said:
Thank you for the proof.
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Speakin' of proof, chief, we're still waiting for you to back up your claim that President Obama "embraced Marxism" with direct evidence.

"But...but...Bill Ayers" and "But...but....Reverend Wright" just ain't getting the job done.

So when your liver gets finished processin' the last of that 190-proof, maybe you can start workin' on the other sort of proof.
 
Cairo, Illinois?




Those freaky rednecks are always on the local news, their city council meetings put the Taiwanese legislature to shame...

"Everybody was KungFu fiaghtin'
"That spit was fast as liaghtnin'!"
 
Okay, so where is all the outrage?

I thought some of you 'real Americans' (you know who you are) were dead set against this sort of thing. You know, somebody getting something for free through someone else's hard work.

Socialism, I say! Where are the objections?
 
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4est_4est_Gump said:
Cairo, Illinois?




Those freaky rednecks are always on the local news, their city council meetings put the Taiwanese legislature to shame...

"Everybody was KungFu fiaghtin'
"That spit was fast as liaghtnin'!"
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Ah reckon so.


Ah don't reckon they use dollars in Cairo, Egypt . . . unless Rommel is coming.
 
This is a public service announcement: This thread was about someone's work being stolen from Lit (at least, I think that's what it was). Just a friendly reminder. You may now return to your regularly scheduled progrom...
 
You post something on the internet for free
you have to assume someone is going to steal it and try to sell it

there are a dozen threads that all say the same thing in authors hangout.
 
TexasWife25 said:
You post something on the internet for free
you have to assume someone is going to steal it and try to sell it

there are a dozen threads that all say the same thing in authors hangout.
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It still doesn't make it right or not piss the author off. I had 2 of my stories posted on another site by a person claiming they were theirs. After contacting the site owner and proving mine were out 2 years before the other person the site removed them.
 
cookiejar said:
It still doesn't make it right or not piss the author off. I had 2 of my stories posted on another site by a person claiming they were theirs. After contacting the site owner and proving mine were out 2 years before the other person the site removed them.
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Well of course, its not right
but its should be expected.

Its like when someone posts a pic on Lit and then gets upset when
they find their pic floating around on some site they've never heard of before.

Happened to me, was I annoyed, yes, but I also realize that when I post something
on the internet, I have to expect that people will steal it and use it however they want.
 
My stuff's been ripped off hundreds of times. I think there's still one site out there with one of my stories attributed to someone else, and they refuse to take it down. What are you gonna' do?
 
Dixon Carter Lee said:
My stuff's been ripped off hundreds of times. I think there's still one site out there with one of my stories attributed to someone else, and they refuse to take it down. What are you gonna' do?
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Legally, you could do something but it probably wouldn't amount to much.

My idea: get on the site where the story and so-called 'author' is, and expose them for the fraud they are. Not much 'reparation' in that, but it might shoot their reputation all to Hell.

Worth a shot.
 
CaptainKirk said:
Legally, you could do something but it probably wouldn't amount to much.

My idea: get on the site where the story and so-called 'author' is, and expose them for the fraud they are. Not much 'reparation' in that, but it might shoot their reputation all to Hell.

Worth a shot.
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I'm over it. The genie's out of the bottle.
 
I wrote a few stories, and just now googled some key phrases. They are also published on a site called ask jolene, but when you click on the story, it redirects back to lit.

These interwebs are like a spider web!
 
I consider anything I've written and put out there public domain. Bastardize away.

I've stumbled upon some who have tried to take credit for things I've written, as on putting it on their Myspace page (back in the day) along wioth other stolen stuff to troll their e-friends into thinking theu're creative and shit. Sort of like the alts in drag here.

It's been fun leaving comments on their blogs with links to the originals and watch their online persona implode.

Also, some commersial porn sites lifts text off of Lit just to have something that generates Google hits. Laurel has been known to bring out the blowtorch on them.

But to my knowledge nobody have tried to sell it under their own name.

Some of the stuff I've written I've sold to pro publishers, and they are far more rabid than me. I get a mail now and then about how they have shot down some illegitimate use of my material.

It is what it is, don't fret.
 
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