Alert: Another Website pirating work

[AutumnWriter]

I'm just writing this to let everyone know that I discovered a site using my work without my permission. It also altered the story by truncating the ending. Although it did attribute the story to me, it deleted the copyright symbol, word and year form the story.

There were a couple other author names known to me after I made a qick scan of its list. the site specializes in "cheating wife" stories. I believe it uses them as teasers to solicit memberships.

The name of the site is www.darkwanderer.net.

You might want to check it and see if any of your work is on it.

Autumn Writer

 

[kendo1]

Thanks for posting.

 

[popcorn2721]

So, do you think all the stories on that site are stolen?

 

[Boxlicker101]

I didn't see any of mine, but I didn't look all that hard. What sites have been known to do is to take the first page of a story, and leave the rest. I don't know if this is just ignorance or what, but it must be frustating to their readers.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

This site had been around a long time and I have never heard of the site stealing stories...someone may have just liked your story and posted it.

I bet if you contact the webmaster he will be glad to pull it for you.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm surprised anyone gets excited.

Lessee, Bach stole from his teacher Buxtehude; Chopin stole from Mozart; Stravinsky stole from Tchaikovsky...the line is endless.

And plenty of writers steal from themselves, recycling their good stuff in new stories.

Theft is a compliment, guys.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Nobody ever steals my stuff.

 

[Guest]

Nobody ever steals my stuff.

It's the horns. Scares 'em right off.

Autumn, thank you! I need to go check for my stuff.

 

[Guest]

None of mine there. 1570.info is still up, however. I tried to send them a DMCA notice, but they require that I send them my real name and address, which I am afraid to do.

So they keep making money off what is ours, and it stays like that.

*sighs*

Maharat

 

[sr71plt]

I'm surprised anyone gets excited.

Lessee, Bach stole from his teacher Buxtehude; Chopin stole from Mozart; Stravinsky stole from Tchaikovsky...the line is endless.

And plenty of writers steal from themselves, recycling their good stuff in new stories.

Theft is a compliment, guys.

Bingo. Someone steals a copyrighted news story and posts it on this forum several times a day--and almost no one gets the connection between having it done to them and doing it to others.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No one I know of is making a dime from what gets posted here, and no one is taking credit for the material.

Try again.

 

[sr71plt]

No one I know of is making a dime from what gets posted here, and no one is taking credit for the material.

Try again.

Excuse me? It's exactly the same thing. Both Web sites are making money from their content. Irrelevant anyway. Reposting copyrighted material anywhere is illegal--a violation of copyright--and exactly equal to posting it anywhere else.

This is just a case of "I can steal and repost other's work--and tolerate it being done here-- but I'll squeal like a stuck pig when anyone does it to me on another Web site." Most of it is done innocently, of course, as people don't see the connection--but it's illegal anyway not to mention really amusing when writers do it to other writers. And it stops being innocent when it's pointed out and writers choose not to absorb the point.

Copyrighted material is reposted to this Web site left and right (you've done it yourself today on another thread) and not pulled off by the Web site owners or objected to by other posters here. All "high ground" is gone here on this point.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SKYPILOT

Youre absurd. An analogy to your post is someone getting excited because someone else directs them to the damned library. On that note: How much money do authors make from public libraries when their books are loaned out? Like zero? But it's not plagiarism because nothing is being duplicated, nothing is being sold, and no one is taking credit for the work.

 

[sr71plt]

SKYPILOT

Youre absurd. An analogy to your post is someone getting excited because someone else directs them to the damned library. On that note: How much money do authors make from public libraries when their books are loaned out? Like zero? But it's not plagiarism because nothing is being duplicated, nothing is being sold, and no one is taking credit for the work.

Reposting on the Internet is a form of duplicating (don't be stupid)--it's all clearly covered in copyright law, as are library rights. Ignorance of the law (especially ignoring of the law when it's pointed out) isn't an excuse. It's ignorance--and muddle-headed arrogance.

And when writers do it on issues of the copyright of other writers, it's also two faced.

The issue here is bellyaching over material being lifted and reposted elsewhere on the Internet from a Web site that allows its posters to lift other copyrighted material from the Internet and repost it here. (Which, as I noted, you've already done today yourself.)

Pot/kettle. No sympathy. And most certainly not any moral high ground.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SKYPILOT

Nonsense. Plenty of sites have problems with what is known as band-width theft ( accessing another site via their site), but I cant think of anyone who's ever complained about a freaking link to their site on another site.

Explain to all of us how a link is plagiarism? If it is, street-signs are plagiarism.

 

[sr71plt]

SKYPILOT

Nonsense. Plenty of sites have problems with what is known as band-width theft ( accessing another site via their site), but I cant think of anyone who's ever complained about a freaking link to their site on another site.

Explain to all of us how a link is plagiarism? If it is, street-signs are plagiarism.

Excuse me? Your first posting to the "Your Taxes at Work" thread is a reposted (probably the total; most certainly more than 10 percent) text of an AP report.

We'll all pause now (or not) while James J. goes to http://www.copyright.gov (or won't) and reads up on copyright law (or doesn't)--rather than spouting off indignant supposition (probably will).

Later: Silly me. I checked back and you reposted that AP report yesterday, not today. Well, that certainly makes a WORLD of difference, doesn't it?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SKYPILOT

IT just occurred to me why Dubya fucks up so much. It's the shit he gets from the whack jobs at the CIA. If you guys spot a billboard advertising THAT 70s SHOW, you think the billboard is the show.

 

[sr71plt]

SKYPILOT

IT just occurred to me why Dubya fucks up so much. It's the shit he gets from the whack jobs at the CIA. If you guys spot a billboard advertising THAT 70s SHOW, you think the billboard is the show.

Ah, good, I'll take that as an "I concede that you're right, so I'll change the subject and make personal fun of you" ploy.

Have a great holiday.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

No one I know of is making a dime from what gets posted here, and no one is taking credit for the material.

Try again.

It doesn't matter whether you make money or not...if you posted it without permission of the copyright holder it's a violation of the law. (in the US)