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A Note on Plagiarism
🕑 Added 2021-10-15 15:31:28 +0000 UTCSorry beforehand for the unpleasant subject matter! This stuff isn't fun to write about, and I'm sure it's not a joy to read, either. But due to something that happened last week, I felt it deserved some attention.
Plagiarism is nothing new in the world of published fiction, but recently I came across a "writer" pretending to be the author of SoH, posting copypasta'd chapters from the books as well as the patreon short stories.
They had been keeping the act up for over a year. I don't even want to try getting into the mind of someone so desperate for validation that they need the hollow achievement of passing another's work off as their own. I'm more sad for them than I am upset—that's how pathetic the whole situation is!
In any case, I reported them and the stories (as well as a couple other "writers" who were doing likewise with other choicegames) and the users have been banned and their stories removed. Choice of Games DMCA'd the site and all is well in the world!
Wattpad, Inkspired, and Webnovel are popular sites for this stuff. If you frequent these places and see anything that looks awfully familiar to something you've read before, there's not an author alive who wouldn't appreciate knowing about it.
Anyway, that's the end of my report. Thanks for reading it!
Comments
Grey Warden
I've known even worse too. There has been a case where someone copied stories of someone else and then sold those stories on her own Patreon. On Wattpad and the like those people do it for attention, but in this case this woman didn't just gain attention but also made money out of other people's works...
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