It's really getting bad out there. I've set aside scheduled time to check the internet out and work on having things removed. The problem is just that consistent and never ceases to amaze me.
That's it...I can't look anymore. Just filed DMCA's for "Falling" and "Tension". If I look more my head will explode. I wonder if these fuckers stealing my work would feel differently if they knew that I shoot Glock pistols competitively and could drop their asses from 50 yards with my 34...
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Yep. I've been plagiarized. Trying to figure out if I want to bother doing anything about it. But it's fucked up.
One thing about most of these thieving sites: They really don't last long.
They typically depend upon one of two things, ad revenue or hosting malware for bad actors. The first is becoming less lucrative by the day, and many of these sites will vanish from negative cash flow. The second usually get them blackballed by so many security sites, malware programs, and search engines in a heartbeat, forcing the webmaster to set up shop somewhere else. Either the host decides they're more trouble than they're worth, or they aren't delivering enough malware to meet the demands of the supplier.
Searching via specific lines also gives you an unrealistic picture of how many people may be reading your story on another site and believing it was written by the webmaster. If you weren't searching for an exact match, the odds are you'd never see the site, no matter how many search terms related to the story you use. Google does a fair job of filtering these fly-by-night crap sites out of its results.
The cretin who's stealing the stories will usually start a new site as soon as one peters out, but it will peter out in turn. Getting your story removed or a site shut down is satisfying, but if you devote too much thought and time to it, it becomes a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. You could better spend your time writing new stories.
Many of the "legitimate" sites such as those related to XNXX or Xhamster will remove your stuff when it's been stolen. It's user-posted content, and not screened by the site initially. If you serve them a DMCA claim, they'll take the story down. Fortunate, because those sites actually do get some traffic, and people are being fooled. A lot of times, you can post a comment on the stories pointing back to where it's posted with your permission as well -- redirecting people to your full body of work.
The same applies to the big story sites who don't have the staff levels Lush does, and can't do a search for existing publications as the mods here often do. Things will slip by the one or two people approving the stories, but as soon as they're alerted, they'll take them down.
Good luck trying to get your work removed from a members-only site like fetlife, though. In my experience, they're as likely as not going to ignore your claims and delete your profile if you create one to alert them to the theft.
Concentrate your efforts where it will accomplish something, ignore the rest, and keep writing. Anything you post on the internet is going to be stolen at some point.
Images use too much bandwidth compared to text, and it's terrible when it comes to search engine indexing.
The trade for security vs. anybody actually reading them without long load times simply isn't worth it.
I was going to say that none of my work has been plagiarised, until I googled one of my works...
https://%27m-desperate-to-fuck-you-camila-g
Oh well. I'll take it as a compliment
okay, it's back up. I left a comment. I couldn't help myself
I found most all my stories and poems on other sites. Good thing I just write for the fun of it. I'm such a beginner author, can't imagine why. With my good friend Mina (sweetestSins) it is a different story. She has published two novels and protects her work carefully. Weird one is that they stole my name too. Lol.
I'm getting too old to stress over the sins of others.
Unfortunately, my works are spread to Kingdom come