Allanther
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Chapter Delayed - work stolen
🕑 Added 2021-07-09 07:45:19 +0000 UTCHello! I found out not to long ago that the extra chapters you all are paying to read have been stolen and hosted on another website in violation of copyright laws and common decency.
On one hand, I'm happy that this means my work is valuable enough to be stolen, lol.
On the other hand I'm annoyed because so far I've kept the tier price low enough it shouldn't have been a real barrier to anyone. Not only that, all these chapter will eventually be free when they get posted to royal road.
Unfortunately, what this means for you all is that the time I would be spending writing today's chapter was instead spent looking into how to fix this. Possibly Monday's too.
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To anyone reading this message on any other website than Patreon: please take a look at my tier price and tell me if it's truly beyond what you can afford. I didn’t think I priced it too high, but I'm also willing to listen if you think it is.
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To the person who downloaded and shared my work illegally: I thank you for your zeal in trying to share this story to a wider audience. I also request that you not do so again. If you have the capability to remove what you have stolen and uploaded elsewhere, please remove it to make my life easier.
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If anyone not involved in this took the time to read it all, I'm sorry for taking up your time and thank you for your support! Next chapter will be out as soon as I can get it out. Have a good weekend!
Allanther
Comments
NoChill
There should be a way to contact the support of a hosting site and get your copy righted work removed if there not one of the many rip off sites that don't care about the law.
Hecktony
It's not an easy problem to fix because Patreon emails updates. So literally any patron with an email (compromised or otherwise) has the full library of works backed on their inbox. Which in and of itself is kind of a unique problem that artists/authors face (i.e. a <5mb file being easier to steal and rehost than a 5 gb video).
Patrick Schuldt
I just checked it and there are more authors compromised... IIRC you can request from google to delete links to your specific novel if someone searches it in google. (I think I read that somewhere) I hope you get that fixed /a solution soon and continue to write this nice story 😊
lewis newhouse
Dude. i've just signed up to your patreon. It's not that expensive and i don't earn that much money. Either way keep up the good work.
Stephen
This is the unfortunate side of self publishing and serial writing. It is why many stop doing this once established. OTOH Patreon can make you a lot of money much faster than publishing your work.
Wanderer
At least it is not republished as someone else's which also happens... If it does you can ask on RR for advice to handle that.
Valter Anunciação
You thought people wouldn't pirate your work? It's always a matter of time.
Mislandor
That sucks my friend. You got a good story. But it does happen.
Wanderer
If it is the site i think of then you probably got batched with the rest. I know how their importer works. Basically, it takes user's session cookie and then scrapes ALL of the paid content the user has access to from all creators the user is pledged to. As far as i know the main site focus is furry art and porn so the most likely scenario is that you have got a furry that uses the scraper amongst your patrons.
John Pratt
Yeah, they do that to kill any prospective publishing deal. So I guess you could think it a compliment, they think you could sell this and are afraid the story will vanish when you do.
Bob
It's not just you, it's the whole patreon platform on there. Patreon must have a server clone on a compromised server in Russia somewhere.
SquiddlyWinks
Swine.
Allanther
Yes, I've reached out to Patreon, though I haven't heard back.
Darkdej
Also doesn't RR have some stuff set up to help in that regard as well?
Amelgar
that's a rather unpleasant turn of events. Have you tried contacting patreon? The site in question seems designed for crawling patreon content. Can't imagine they'd be pleased about that
