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Owner?Is there a better word than "author" for my title?
We speculated once about the owner, who seems be two people at most. I don't know if they have plans for a future without them in it. I guess the site itself could be taken over or sold to one of the other sites that does virtually the same thing. Or maybe it's like the corner pizza shop when the owner quits or dies: it disappears. While one can sell old pizza ovens, I don't know if the 500,000 stories here have any value. Don't expect the the Library of Congress to archive "Sitting on My Son's Lap," the most viewed story on the site.Owner?
When the lease on domain name and hosting expired, the domain would become available again for someone else to use.
Stories are just text, which means it would be very easy to keep them as an archive. Hell, a medium size USB drive can store all 600,000+ of them easily, even in an advanced format such as docx or html.We speculated once about the owner, who seems be two people at most. I don't know if they have plans for a future without them in it. I guess the site itself could be taken over or sold to one of the other sites that does virtually the same thing. Or maybe it's like the corner pizza shop when the owner quits or dies: it disappears. While one can sell old pizza ovens, I don't know if the 500,000 stories here have any value. Don't expect the the Library of Congress to archive "Sitting on My Son's Lap," the most viewed story on the site.
And the contents preserved in the Wayback Machine - although I don't know the permanence of that. It would still need someone managing that domain name. Maybe someone does, I don't know.Owner?
When the lease on domain name and hosting expired, the domain would become available again for someone else to use.
But what happens to the content? Is there a place one can stash no-longer-active websites?Owner?
When the lease on domain name and hosting expired, the domain would become available again for someone else to use.
The content should stay saved on the server, at least for a while, although it wouldn't be available for public access anymore. As EB mentioned, there is The Wayback Machine that archives the content of websites, but I am not sure if it stores only the first page of each story or more.But what happens to the content? Is there a place one can stash no-longer-active websites?
Once? Today?We speculated once about the owner, who seems be two people at most. I don't know if they have plans for a future without them in it.
Minutes. Actually, maybe 30 seconds. It would take on wget command.Well, I suppose any of us could start saving them on our own PCs, page by page, story by story. It would be amusing to calculate how long such a process would take![]()
I'm missing something here. You mean copying the entire site's contents?Minutes. Actually, maybe 30 seconds. It would take on wget command.
Oh, you mean to actually run? Hours, if you have a fast connection and Literotica doesn't throttle you. Text is small.
-Rocco
There is the domain name and there is the actual storage holding the contents. In many cases, they're not 'together.' URLs can be redirected behind the scenes to where the actual data resides, but that's all just details. A domain (set of URLs) remains so long as someone maintains/pays for it. In some cases, such as blogs on Google, etc., those are 'free,' but some of the hosts impose "unused domain" tests. At some point, the domain/URL can be considered unused or unpaid for, and will be reclaimed. I've seen "this domain for sale" when visiting old websites.Back in the day, if someone wrote worthwhile stuff, it would be collected in libraries. What happens now? Even if it's not worthwhile. It might still be interesting to people.
Is there a better word than "author" for my title?
And is quite likely to be snapped up by squatters, especially if it was a popular site.Owner?
When the lease on domain name and hosting expired, the domain would become available again for someone else to use.
The content should stay saved on the server, at least for a while, although it wouldn't be available for public access anymore. As EB mentioned, there is The Wayback Machine that archives the content of websites, but I am not sure if it stores only the first page of each story or more.
Basically, the only person who could preserve the database of Lit stories is the person with admin access to Literotica's backend.
Well, I suppose any of us could start saving them on our own PCs, page by page, story by story. It would be amusing to calculate how long such a process would take![]()
Somebody did it a few years back; they put a compressed archive of all Literotica's stories on the cloud somewhere and posted a link on Reddit. IIRC it was about 6 GB as a zip file. Say 400K stories at that time, that's about 15 KB per story, compressed... seems about right.Minutes. Actually, maybe 30 seconds. It would take on wget command.
Oh, you mean to actually run? Hours, if you have a fast connection and Literotica doesn't throttle you. Text is small.
-Rocco
Woah now! Don't you mean sent to Red White and Blueland?Like anything else, all the content will be preserved by both the CIA and GCHQ and available to law enforcement so that we can be rounded up and sent to Greenland.
Somebody said (I'm paraphrasing): "Who needs satire when reality is already so weird?"Woah now! Don't you mean sent to Red White and Blueland?
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161
Yes.I'm missing something here. You mean copying the entire site's contents?
Nothing personal, all my fellow authors, but why would I want those half-million stories? To be balanced, who would really want my 139 submissions?Yes.
Example from Github:
wget --recursive --page-requisites --adjust-extension --span-hosts --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --domains yoursite.com --no-parent yoursite.com
Source: https://gist.github.com/crittermike/fe02c59fed1aeebd0a9697cf7e9f5c0c
Say it's a 10 gigabyte download: a decent internet connection could do that in a few hours. It's essentially two full DVDs.
-Rocco
Lit is a publishing platform, and if it was bought as a going entity, the content would remain.A valid question.
Something I personally hadn't thought about...
Literotica, I assume is a legitimate company...
If the owners did sell the web site / company to another entity.
What happens to the content???
The content is always yours. You've given the site permission (through the terms of service) to publish, and you've benefitted from the platform, using it's publication capability.Does it still belong to the writer,
See first reply, up above. The website's value, if it could be valued, is intrinsically tied up with our content.or does it pass along with web site???
Yes - they're yours. You own them, so you should have that right.If it was sold to an organisation I didn't like. Could I get my stories removed???
Not much, unless you're prepared to defend your copyrights in court - if it ever came to that.I'm making an assumption, that the rules of copyright would offer the writers some protection seeing as how they were never purchased in the first place...
Probably true. Essentially, it's a risk you've accepted if you publish here.For me it does open a question... Which I don't know the answer to. Not being an expert on law.
Other sites such as You Tube make it incredibly difficult to get stolen material removed. If this wweb Site was sold to an organisation like that. It might be difficult to get your work deleted or removed...
Thanks,Lit is a publishing platform, and if it was bought as a going entity, the content would remain.
The content is always yours. You've given the site permission (through the terms of service) to publish, and you've benefitted from the platform, using it's publication capability.
If the new owner tried to monetise our content, we'd all be entitled to royalties.
See first reply, up above. The website's value, if it could be valued, is intrinsically tied up with our content.
Yes - they're yours. You own them, so you should have that right.
Not much, unless you're prepared to defend your copyrights in court - if it ever came to that.
Probably true. Essentially, it's a risk you've accepted if you publish here.
Actually, I meant all websites. So much of our intellectual lives are found there now. Even some local newspapers have gone totally digital.Whether the intent of this thread was to discuss Literotica's eventual fate,