FanFiction Thieves Update

quicknoisyninja:

Hello everyone, as I’m sure a lot of you are aware there are several sites who have mirrored Fanfiction.net and stolen every single story on the site. I understand that this must make a lot of you feel a little scared and apprehensive but let me give you guys some closure to put your minds at ease.

While I was spreading a word a really good friend of mine contacted me and told me that he already knew about these sites and that they’ve been mirroring Fanfiction since last year. What this means is that they’ve been doing this for a while but there hasn’t been one incident of Fanfiction being bothered by this.

In other words there is very little to no chance of this site hacking Fanfiction authors accounts and any personal information being stolen or monitored.

These sites were probably active even before my friend found out so it seems that all they are able to do is copy stories and what is written on author’s profile pages but they can’t do anything serious like hacking your accounts and taking your e-mail address. If they were able to do this then it would have happened, so all Fanfic writers please don’t feel afraid to continue writing and posting your stories like normal.

It is disgusting that people have stolen millions of people’s hard work but at least we know now that it’s not hurting anyone, hopefully fanfiction will address this issue but if they don’t I don’t think it means that we have to quit posting or be afraid to write. Even though they were stolen its not like it makes people enjoy your stories any less.

I hope this message reaches you all.