Wow. Just wow.
A heads-up via elmey about an outfit calling themselves ebooks-tree.com, which has been busily scraping material from AO3 (possibly elsewhere?) and offering it on their site. They have two of my fics, which means they are likely to have a lot more by better-known writers, and probably in every fandom.
There's a detailed page about it on the AO3 tumblr. I strongly suggest you go and look. They have two by brutti-ma-buoni, for example, and two by herself_nyc, which suggests to me that they may be lifting a couple from each writer and waiting to see what happens. OTOH, they have scads by enigmaticblue. They may come to regret pissing off a lawyer with serious legal smarts.
I feel seriously pissed off about this, and will be following the instructions on the AO3 tumblr to make a complaint in the morning. This is seriously unpleasant.
Can I suggest signal-boosting is in order?
ETA: It would seem a lot of material has been removed from the site - I imagine we have the good folks of AO3 to thank for that, plus possibly the big guns of some established commercial writers and publishers.
There's a detailed page about it on the AO3 tumblr. I strongly suggest you go and look. They have two by brutti-ma-buoni, for example, and two by herself_nyc, which suggests to me that they may be lifting a couple from each writer and waiting to see what happens. OTOH, they have scads by enigmaticblue. They may come to regret pissing off a lawyer with serious legal smarts.
I feel seriously pissed off about this, and will be following the instructions on the AO3 tumblr to make a complaint in the morning. This is seriously unpleasant.
Can I suggest signal-boosting is in order?
ETA: It would seem a lot of material has been removed from the site - I imagine we have the good folks of AO3 to thank for that, plus possibly the big guns of some established commercial writers and publishers.