Someone stole my story!

[Jada59]

Someone published my story elsewhere. Was doing a random search of my name. It's here:

https://www.adultread.io/anal/interest/older-woman

Youn have to scroll down. The story is: Friend With Benefits.

What can I do? Anyone familiar with this site?

 

[Jada59]

It's a weird site. They only show a small part of the story and then provide a link to Literotica, so I wonder if it's really stealing. I don't think I'd have any issues with this; the site acknowledges the writer, doesn't show the whole story, and routes interested people to Lit. What's your loss?

Ohhh... Hmmm... It is weird. Thanks!

 

[UsuallyPresent]

I'd send Laurel a note, just to let 'em know about this take. I would also wonder about 'fair use' defense in something like that. One of the big questions - did this other site have ads? (IE, were they monetizing it?)

 

[oggbashan]

They have dozens of mine listed under my name but I didn't put them there.

I think they just link back to Literotica so they're more of a search engine than a site stealing stories.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There are a bunch of sites out there that all link back to Lit. I have heard that Laurel and Manu have site the all funnel back here where they list stories from here. Don't quote me on this.

 

[RejectReality]

If they're crediting you and linking back to Lit, I just look at it as free advertising. If someone likes the one the site posted, they might just follow the link looking for more. When the site is only providing a teaser, that leans even more to the advertising side.

There's enough unattributed wholesale horking of stories that you have to take a relaxed attitude toward things like this.

 

[HeyAll]

I just searched my name and someone posted one of my stories and was nice enough to give me credit:

https://www.adultread.io/search?q=heyall

I've seen my stories pop up on vairious sites. Some people have made a profile under my name. Some people post it other their name. Sometimes readers point it out. Usually not.

 

[oggbashan]

Some of my long list of stories there link back to Lit; some to Xhamster where I posted them myself. All are credited to me.

 

[KeithD]

It's a weird site. They only show a small part of the story and then provide a link to Literotica, so I wonder if it's really stealing. I don't think I'd have any issues with this; the site acknowledges the writer, doesn't show the whole story, and routes interested people to Lit. What's your loss?

As Ruben suggests, that would be taken more as helpful advertising than stealing--if it leads back here for the read.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

They put mine there... Mary Tagert. They did change my user name to zebcarter.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I reckon it's one of those compiler sites that trawls and grabs random chunks of content, drops it onto a page and makes it look pretty, but doesn't have the whole thing - as RR notes, a teaser site. I see it all the time with my small business site, my books, and content from here. I can't see how anyone is monetising it, so it's not worth bothering about. I certainly wouldn't be dropping in a registration name or submitting content. Who knows where that would lead - into a dead end or onto a phishing site, probably.

 

[RejectReality]

I reckon it's one of those compiler sites that trawls and grabs random chunks of content, drops it onto a page and makes it look pretty, but doesn't have the whole thing - as RR notes, a teaser site. I see it all the time with my small business site, my books, and content from here. I can't see how anyone is monetising it, so it's not worth bothering about. I certainly wouldn't be dropping in a registration name or submitting content. Who knows where that would lead - into a dead end or onto a phishing site, probably.

There's also been very little activity since 2018 from what I've seen. I only noticed a couple of additions from last year.

It looks like they scraped a bunch of stuff in Dec. of 2018 to build a library of content, probably engaged in some black-hat SEO, and hoped to attract a user-base that way.

Maybe the goal was getting hits on the handful of Amazon Ebooks they're promoting? Perhaps one of those Amazon Affiliate link things where they get a small cut when you click from their site?

I'd say that whatever their end goal was, it was an epic fail. The lack of updates indicates that the effort/reward calculation isn't working out for them. Kind of surprising it's even still up. They must have sprung for multi-year hosting and registration in advance.

 

[ElectricBlue]

There's also been very little activity since 2018 from what I've seen. I only noticed a couple of additions from last year.

Yes, I noticed the 2018 dates. I put "Floating World" into the search field to see if any of mine came up. Nothing did, although one of Pilot's titles showed up in the list - it had "floating" in the text extract. Don't know if the story title was the same as here, though - I didn't go look.

 

[Jada59]

I'd send Laurel a note, just to let 'em know about this take. I would also wonder about 'fair use' defense in something like that. One of the big questions - did this other site have ads? (IE, were they monetizing it?)

That, I don't know.

 

[Jada59]

As Ruben suggests, that would be taken more as helpful advertising than stealing--if it leads back here for the read.

Thanks!

 

[KeithD]

Checking that site, I stopped counting at 100 for the sr71plt account stories they give in one-paragraph blurbs. They've included the original titles. Just teasers that the reader would have to come here (or some other site I've post it to) to find and read--where I gave the story for free read (and copying) in the Internet, which means I've given it away for free read (and copying). Post it here, you've valued it at zero and are losing control of it voluntarily.