Ripped off? WTF?

[Midnightmoon602]

Lame title. i don't know if anyone has FF.net account or even go onto it but i have recived a message from FF.net with this saying this.

Be warned, someone called ChristianWestonChandler has ripped off your story's title and summary and filled the story with horrible things I would rather not mention. You may or may not be aware of the incident with the "Barney" group that happened primarily in the Pokemon section - I am under the assumption this is the same people doing it again. This writer has already ripped off 44 stories - please warn your readers! I'm going to send PMs to the other writers that have been affected. I hope that we can stop this spamming early so it doesn't get to the extent it did last time.

MY fic was ripped off? WTF? who wants to rip off my fics? they are not even THAT good to begin with. but ripping off 44 pokemon related pokemon fanfics. if mine was there i would....

I'm shocked to se these people do stuff to people who work hard to do this. The person account is now delated but we all know there are more than one doing this shocking stuff.

So i want to warn you guys and your readers about this. im going to post this in my next chapter to warn my readers.

[cascade88]

Yeah...

That truly sucks, but it happens. Often. People will either take your story, paraphrase it, maybe even (in my case on three occasions) change the pairings involved, and post it as their own work. OR they'll take the general idea and add crazy things and post it as their own original idea. Or they'll just copy the story word for word, title and all and claim it.

Either way, it happens, and best thing to do about it is to just report them. -shrugs-

[narutoninja44]

The Barney Group...yea, they aint got the best rep...

Like Manda said, report their ass*s before they do anymore damage...

[LuciferIX]

So they might be back... Sadly that doesn't surprise me. If they did it once they can do it again and being banned won't stop them if they want to do it.

Sorry to hear that Midnight.

May 16, 2009 1:53:46 GMT 12 @cascade88 said:

People will either take your story, paraphrase it, maybe even (in my case on three occasions) change the pairings involved, and post it as their own work. OR they'll take the general idea and add crazy things and post it as their own original idea.

Didn't realize that it happened to you as well Miranda. Makes me wonder if any of mine have been. Of course with the size of the site it's not easy to spot them.

[cascade88]

^ Well it was actually all from the same author on FFnet, although I'm unaware of whether or not he/she's still there. Basically, they took my old Pearlshipping stories and paraphrased them and added things and switched it to Pokeshipping. But meh, like I said, unfortunately, it happens, and even if it isn't a permanent fix, reporting them's still your best option.