ebooks-tree reposting fanfic without permission

[rebecca2525]

There's another site reposting fanfic without permission, this time pulling from AO3, wattpad and a couple of other sites:

ebooks-tree.com

I've found a couple my fics there. Linkage:

Here's a post with info

Here's a discussion on FFA

And the tumblr tag might be useful for finding further infos

EDIT: So while the PDF downloads are not free and ask you to

Comments

[liz_mo]

Oh that sucks! And for the first time I'm a victim. WTF? I'm not sure wether or not I should laugh or cry. Cry because now I have to deal with this,arghh, and laugh because what fic did they pull? One of the german ones and one of the least read.
Thank you SO much for the heads up! I'll steal your links for my own post later in the day.

[rebecca2525]

After looking a bit more into it, I'm actually more amused than anything by this site. They seem to be scraping the entire internet for all "ebooks" they can find pretty much at random, using the most generic scrape bot possible. It's not just fanfic: they have popular published authors there as well, also scientific articles. Some books have the covers taken from Amazon and still have the "Search inside" labels on them. It seems more likely that the fanfic is only collateral damage and they're mainly angling for popular books, hoping to scam for credit card numbers and emails/password. Because even if "it's totally free" (the front page says so!), they still want your credit card for an account. Yeah, not suspicious AT ALL