Goddamit, more story stealing....

[matriarch]

I was just reading a feedback letter, which quoted part of one of my stories, and decided for no reason, to do an internet search of that quotation, and lo and behold, my it story didn't come up, but the story in question did, on a site called Free Porn Lessons, it was being used as a teaser/intro to get people to join their site.

Free Porn Lessons

I found a 'contact us' page, and that is the only way I can see of contacting them, which I will be doing.

Take a look folks.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Unfortunately, what you experienced is common.

My GF writes a newspaper column and other papers steal her columns! The goddamned papers do it too!

I was reading the paper yesterday and one of the reporters used something of mine.

The conventional wisdom indicates that kids are learning to heist intellectual property in high school. They steal stuff for high school reports, then perfect the thieving in college.

 

[Guest]

I was just reading a feedback letter, which quoted part of one of my stories, and decided for no reason, to do an internet search of that quotation, and lo and behold, my it story didn't come up, but the story in question did, on a site called Free Porn Lessons, it was being used as a teaser/intro to get people to join their site.

Free Porn Lessons

I found a 'contact us' page, and that is the only way I can see of contacting them, which I will be doing.

Take a look folks.

Damn it.

Here's the story page - http://www.freepornlessons.com/freesexstories/index.html

 

[JagFarlane]

Unfortunately, what you experienced is common.

My GF writes a newspaper column and other papers steal her columns! The goddamned papers do it too!

I was reading the paper yesterday and one of the reporters used something of mine.

The conventional wisdom indicates that kids are learning to heist intellectual property in high school. They steal stuff for high school reports, then perfect the thieving in college.

Heres the brutal truth...cheating and stealing has been around for ages. Its just become a whole lot easier to do it, and to find it. Hell, there are now websites where college graduate students offer to write a paper for an undergrad for a small fee. Hell I have seen women offer sex in return for someone to write a paper for them.
Intellectual property rights are slowly disappearing. Why? The increased demand for them. Websites and, as we've seen here, people on personal ads will steal stories in order to make them more attractive.
In todays world, a college degree is becoming more necessary to become competitive. And problems have arisen in many fields of this. As the concept of "No Child Left Behind" is pushed, more people are passing high school with less than adequate educations. Its not the fault of teachers, because pressure is there to pass these otherwise poor students, and, of course, to teach courses more designed around things like the SAT and ACT. This, is of course, why there is now a backlash with most schools stating they don't require these tests, and some schools stating straight out they don't want your scores, no if, ands, or buts [Bates in Maine for example].
But at lot of this is boiled down to learning to skirt the system. People will take for granted that the stories posted upon Lit are free. And for a struggling site, stealing a couple of stories and posting them could be the difference between profit and failure. Particularly when they look at a site like Literotica that has been around for years now, and even boasts published authors. The temptation to steal, say, Rob's stories because he is published, become great. Why? Because they know the stories will be good.

 

[matriarch]

I have absolutely no problem with other sites posting my stories - providing they credit the story to me! That's not happening in many of the sites, and it's that that pisses me off.

Just ask me, and as long as you put my name at the bottom and my e-mail address, I'll be happy for them to use my stories.

But steal them, and post them either anonymously or as work of their own and I will be very annoyed.

Just heard from Laurel, she's on the case.

 

[Iamcanadian28]

Heres the brutal truth...cheating and stealing has been around for ages. Its just become a whole lot easier to do it, and to find it. Hell, there are now websites where college graduate students offer to write a paper for an undergrad for a small fee. Hell I have seen women offer sex in return for someone to write a paper for them.
Intellectual property rights are slowly disappearing. Why? The increased demand for them. Websites and, as we've seen here, people on personal ads will steal stories in order to make them more attractive.
In todays world, a college degree is becoming more necessary to become competitive. And problems have arisen in many fields of this. As the concept of "No Child Left Behind" is pushed, more people are passing high school with less than adequate educations. Its not the fault of teachers, because pressure is there to pass these otherwise poor students, and, of course, to teach courses more designed around things like the SAT and ACT. This, is of course, why there is now a backlash with most schools stating they don't require these tests, and some schools stating straight out they don't want your scores, no if, ands, or buts [Bates in Maine for example].
But at lot of this is boiled down to learning to skirt the system. People will take for granted that the stories posted upon Lit are free. And for a struggling site, stealing a couple of stories and posting them could be the difference between profit and failure. Particularly when they look at a site like Literotica that has been around for years now, and even boasts published authors. The temptation to steal, say, Rob's stories because he is published, become great. Why? Because they know the stories will be good.

Their are two sides to everything though. It was a very good income source for me during college writing papers for people. All one of a kind originals of course, but certainly not the work of the person turning it in.