Apr
30th
2018
Someone stole 'Dear Sweetie Belle.' · 4:53am Apr 30th, 2018
Posted it on another website. They even made new cover art.
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I've sent the thief a message on the site telling them they have twelve hours to delete the story and apologize. After that, I'm putting them on blast on here and any other avenue available to me. Not to mention reporting the story and the author.
No links here until the 12 hours are up.
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Plagiarism is never okay.
EDIT: Time's up.
I may not be a super big fan of your later works after Dear Scootaloo but yeah no this is BAD. BAD BAD BAD.
I'm sorry.
Good luck for bringing him down
Definitely contact the admins of whatever website it is. Hopefully there's something in place for this kind of situation.
Yeah, I've been seeing a lot more plagiarism and the like on sites like fanfiction.net and dA lately. It's pretty sickening to see that shit. I'm sure even archiveofourown and other sites aren't immune. Sometimes it's hard to know as not all authors keep the same moniker across all these publishing sites and I'm hardly an author myself.
You go man! Stand up for your property!!!!
Good job!
Wow. I hate when that happens. It happened to me three times in a row by the same person. He had stolen three of my World of Warcraft stories (including a fetish/smut story with necrophilia and rape) and posted them on DevArt. I contacted them and they took them down each time he posted them. The third time, they banned him at last. Haven't had a plagiarism in awhile.
Good luck!
Looks like it's been deleted (:D), but it makes you wonder about some of the other stories.
EDIT: I came here again (7 months later) to say, word-for-word "makes you wonder about some of the other stories" again. Sometimes I wonder if I'm a real person or just a stimulus-response machine.
I don't see it either. I regret not seeing it in time to report it.
WTF? Who thinks this kind of thing is a good idea?