Okay, so... (Using this icon because Egon is frown-y and I feel frown-y)

[serendipity8791]

Apparently, there is a website that has sent bots to AO3 to steal people's fanworks and make money off them (mostly through ad revenue but you also need to give a credit card to make an account in order to access the works? skeevy as fuck if you ask me!).

I do not know how to feel about this, because holy crap, I don't want to lock down my works on there so only registered users can read it, but at the same time, I don't want to have to deal with filling and sending a DMCA if it does come to happen.

AO3 isn't doing much beyond telling people they should lock their works to prevent that from happening for now, they are apparently looking into it, but appear to be pretty sure there isn't much they can do.

*sigh*

I am NOT going to FF.net, no way, no how. Nuh-uh!

Here is a Tumblr post about it.

Comments

[spinner_atropos]

The fuck???

[serendipity8791]

Gaaaahhhh! I managed to get the Pennywise icon! *shudders* Didn't Tim Curry play him?

[spinner_atropos]

He did! And I SHRIEKED when I opened Volume 2 of the collected comics to see him included! :D

[serendipity8791]

Hahaha! I loved the reference, even though IT freaked the shit out of me when I was in High School. XD

[spinner_atropos]

It still kind of gets me even now. ¬.¬ Hell of a cast though, some of my favorite '80s and '90s television is represented!

[serendipity8791]

Wasn't Seth Green in that?

By the way, funniest scene in horror? The fortune cookie scene. I was almost pissing my pants laughing.

[spinner_atropos]

Yeah, he was in it too. EVERYONE was in it somewhere.