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A site is scraping our AO3 fics and selling them (ao3.life)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by to c/fanfiction@literature.cafe
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Hi guys

I'm doing my best to spread the word that this site AO3.life has scraped lots of fics from AO3 and is selling them for profit.

I removed the site link for ao3.life as it's gone now!

I have found at least 5 of mine there and so have my friends.

What can we do to stop them, I don't know? They say we can request our fics to be taken down but I think that would compromise our anonymity.

Update: I found this where someone reported the site and got a reply, so hopefully it is helpful: https://www.threads.com/@k.kinley24/post/DfPo6h2Gqsh/media?xmt=AQG0CjOMyS8v8V0npLV2WEm5QcRdhQLLdD22v4z8BXF-ECKorQjw1UbF_h4GqArnC9oB2IA

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[–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

The shady thing was people not realizing that you could also just download it burn it yourself due to the cover image. And even back then 10 Bucks or so were quite a lot. They never were a good deal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    The shady thing was people interested in Linux that were ignorant of its licensing? Because of a cover image?

    56k modems weren't even commonplace until the late 90s. Even if you could guarantee full download speeds then, you're looking at over two days for an ISO while your phone line would be occupied. And not everybody had a CD burner. If you value your time and disk space, it was worth it.

    Go find something else to be angry at for no reason.

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