I should say, this doesn't mean that I think that they're right, just that I can see how somebody might see that and think it's okay to roll it into something like an amateur collection site or something.
I'd forgotten that I'd used that phrasing pre-web. Hmm. The removal of attribution is something I want to do something about regardless.
It's not obvious from the page that copy of my story is linked from whether it's a commercial site or somebody's hobby archive they just decided to publish, but a) there are ads for paysites there, and b) some of the other topic-index pages are chock-full of links to paysites (including from pages that look like listings of free content until you click through), so at best I think it's an adult-site referral farm, and at worst it's a front-end for one or more of the sites it links to.
But I'm not sure I've gathered enough evidence yet that it's an intentional attempt to profit from my (and scores of others') work by luring them to the link farm, if they try to claim that the main purpose is just a net.archive and the advertising is a side issue. I'm convinced, because every real story-archive site I've seen retains authors' names and this one seems to have filed off every last one. I'm not sure how solid my case has to be to get action from their ISP.
The site is http://chastity-belt-stories.com/home (http://dummy.url) (HREF intentionally broken to avoid upping their inbound link count).
There are a couple of sites I've given permission to -- they link back to my site. There's an authorized Japanese translation (and I think an unauthorized one as well, and I suspect there may be a French translation floating around). And the occasional major or minor non-commercial collection that retains the Usenet statement about archiving, that I'm not going to gripe about even though I'd prefer a link to my site. But the more I think about this particular example, the sleazier it seems.
Huh. That site's a headscratcher. I can see either case being true. A whois shows that the nick masterboyhr (at yahoo.com) is used on the domain registration, which makes me think that it's at least a somewhat unique site.
But here's a bigger complication: they're in France. I'm not sure what the international applicability of DMCA takedown notices is.
I'd probably just start out trying to have a civil conversation with the guy with the presumption of good will, if only to give him the ability to save face - there's always time to go nuclear later. If I wanted to go nuclear, I'd first try to find other authors whose work he's misappropriated and distribute torches and pitchforks.
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http://www.fuzzykitty.com/~jonathan/library/jonathan/adult/chastity-belt
Naturally, removing your authorship is abhorrent and not to be tolerated.
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It's not obvious from the page that copy of my story is linked from whether it's a commercial site or somebody's hobby archive they just decided to publish, but a) there are ads for paysites there, and b) some of the other topic-index pages are chock-full of links to paysites (including from pages that look like listings of free content until you click through), so at best I think it's an adult-site referral farm, and at worst it's a front-end for one or more of the sites it links to.
But I'm not sure I've gathered enough evidence yet that it's an intentional attempt to profit from my (and scores of others') work by luring them to the link farm, if they try to claim that the main purpose is just a net.archive and the advertising is a side issue. I'm convinced, because every real story-archive site I've seen retains authors' names and this one seems to have filed off every last one. I'm not sure how solid my case has to be to get action from their ISP.
The site is http://chastity-belt-stories.com/home (http://dummy.url) (HREF intentionally broken to avoid upping their inbound link count).
There are a couple of sites I've given permission to -- they link back to my site. There's an authorized Japanese translation (and I think an unauthorized one as well, and I suspect there may be a French translation floating around). And the occasional major or minor non-commercial collection that retains the Usenet statement about archiving, that I'm not going to gripe about even though I'd prefer a link to my site. But the more I think about this particular example, the sleazier it seems.
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But here's a bigger complication: they're in France. I'm not sure what the international applicability of DMCA takedown notices is.
I'd probably just start out trying to have a civil conversation with the guy with the presumption of good will, if only to give him the ability to save face - there's always time to go nuclear later. If I wanted to go nuclear, I'd first try to find other authors whose work he's misappropriated and distribute torches and pitchforks.
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