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A site is scraping our AO3 fics and selling them (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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[–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

Why link to the bad site like that? And yeah there are a bunch of reddit threads about this. People are filing reports with the relevant ISPs and the French authorities. AO3s legal team is apparently trying to get the bad site stop using AO3 trademarks, but can't do anything about the copying itself.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1xm2tpp/situation_ao3life/

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