Plagiarism on Storiesonline

[Rob_Royale]

On my latest Lit posting an anonymous reader commented, asking me if I was Mom Lover on Storiesonline. Because he'd read my Aunt Tina story there posted by that person. I looked it up and sure enough Mom Lover posted Living With Aunt which is my story retitled. I have reached out to the admins and hopefully they will respond.

In the meantime, if you write incest stories you might want to check out this person and make sure he's not posting your work.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Just followed a link and found that he's selling it on ZBookStore also.

 

[dirk2024]

I'm sorry to hear that @Rob_Royale

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[OddLove]

I been to lyric websites that don't allow highlighting or select all, so it's (as far as I know) impossible to copy and paste stuff from their websites.

Maybe if that was possible to do here thieves wouldn't steal stories, cause theirs a massive different between copy and pasting thousands of words vs reading and typing them.

Anyways, hopefully those admins do the responsible thing and remove the stolen story. Otherwise they should be held liable too.

 

[alohadave]

I been to lyric websites that don't allow highlighting or select all, so it's (as far as I know) impossible to copy and paste stuff from their websites.

Maybe if that was possible to do here thieves wouldn't steal stories, cause theirs a massive different between copy and pasting thousands of words vs reading and typing them.

If it's displayed in your web browser, it's already been downloaded onto your computer. It's trivial to go into your cache and find the file. Or you can view the source and get a direct link to the source file, or even scraping the site.

All those websites are doing is stopping casual copying.

 

[RejectReality]

I been to lyric websites that don't allow highlighting or select all, so it's (as far as I know) impossible to copy and paste stuff from their websites.

Maybe if that was possible to do here thieves wouldn't steal stories, cause theirs a massive different between copy and pasting thousands of words vs reading and typing them.

Anyways, hopefully those admins do the responsible thing and remove the stolen story. Otherwise they should be held liable too.

That can be bypassed in seconds by anyone doing a Google search.

 

[OddLove]

That can be bypassed in seconds by anyone doing a Google search.

Wish I woulda known that ten years ago when I spent two hours reading and typing down Limp Bizkit lyrics so I could make lyrics videos.

 

[RejectReality]

Don't see anything familiar in the profile, but it looks like they're taking really long stuff, and I don't have any really long Incest other than my early Adam series, which is just fuck scenes strung together with loose story.

Laz always used to be on about now doing final approvals for the evening, so hopefully it and the plagiarist get wiped out soon.

 

[darwin1859]

Another website, that rhymes with lushstories, protects their copy. This is the bookmarked JS that ChatGPT wrote for me to undo their protection (because, in addition to preventing me from copying, it also prevents me from selecting for any reason, like websearch or dictionary): j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t-:- (function(){document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(e=>{e.style.userSelect='text';e.style.webkitUserSelect='text';e.style.msUserSelect='text';});})();

I do think for stories here on Literotica, the pagination is a slight hinderance to thieves. If you publish your novel of 50K words in 10 chapters, each one will have two pages. That's 20 cut and paste operations.

One suggestion, that I think is not disallowed by LE, is to insert a unique string into your stories. Like "This text is copyright by Darwin1859." If you insert that into the middle of each story, it probably isn't a huge deal for the reader, but it probably makes it harder for the pirate and (probably) much easier to find your pirated stories elsewhere.

Or do what I do and just license them for reuse.

 

[Rob_Royale]

One suggestion, that I think is not disallowed by LE, is to insert a unique string into your stories. Like "This text is copyright by Darwin1859." If you insert that into the middle of each story, it probably isn't a huge deal for the reader, but it probably makes it harder for the pirate and (probably) much easier to find your pirated stories elsewhere.

That's a good idea.

 

[RejectReality]

You can insert strings like that, but it's like everything else in that it only discourages/catches the laziest of thieves. You have to face facts that once you release something into the wild, it's going to be copied. Nothing you do will stop it. That doesn't mean you can't take some satisfaction from whacking some of these thieves once in a while, ( and another reputable story site is a great place to do it, because they'll almost always whack the whole account and permaban them for one clear example of plagiarism ) but don't let it consume you.

It's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole that you simply cannot win.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

That's a good idea.

I just consider all my typos as hidden code that identifies the writing as my own in case anyone tries to copy it.

 

[lovecraft68]

Just followed a link and found that he's selling it on ZBookStore also.

Is Zbookstore the one through SOL? If so I wouldn't worry about it selling.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Is Zbookstore the one through SOL? If so I wouldn't worry about it selling.

I've always wondered how much traffic SOL's store had. It has always seemed convenient for SOL's authors who post for free but sometimes wish to put up a story or novel for sale as well. By your reaction, I take it it doesn't see much traffic?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've always wondered how much traffic SOL's store had. It has always seemed convenient for SOL's authors who post for free but sometimes wish to put up a story or novel for sale as well. By your reaction, I take it it doesn't see much traffic?

I'm going by what a few folks I know that publish there have told me. You have to have stories on SOL to use it and I'm not branching into another free site beyond this one.

There are exceptions but when someone traffics a site with tens of thousands of free stories they don't tend to be the type to spend much.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've noticed an increase in the number of places that one can find rip offs of my stories. The first time it happened I sent a threatening message and they removed it, but I don't have the time or interest to do it now. Part of me shrugs and says, well, it means more people are reading my stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

I've noticed an increase in the number of places that one can find rip offs of my stories. The first time it happened I sent a threatening message and they removed it, but I don't have the time or interest to do it now. Part of me shrugs and says, well, it means more people are reading my stories.

Way back I used to make the effort to take them down, but after a bit I saw it as this is what happens when you give it away for free on a site that's basically a grocery store for thieves, so at this point I don't care anymore.

There's a lot of things that can and do happen here that I see people driving themselves crazy with and none of them are worth the headache.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Laz always used to be on about now doing final approvals for the evening, so hopefully it and the plagiarist get wiped out soon.

The story has been removed and I received an email to that effect. The user has been 'warned'.

It's a never-ending game of whack-a-mole that you simply cannot win.

I'm positive that you are correct, but it's a first for me as a writer. I'm dealing with a heady brew of outrage mixed with flattery. For the time being at least, I'll tilt at this particular windmill.

 

[RejectReality]

The story has been removed and I received an email to that effect. The user has been 'warned'.

I'm positive that you are correct, but it's a first for me as a writer. I'm dealing with a heady brew of outrage mixed with flattery. For the time being at least, I'll tilt at this particular windmill.

Warned? :: sigh :: If someone horks one story, it should be assumed they've stolen everything they've posted. Even if they haven't, they deserve to be banned for the one.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Warned? :: sigh :: If someone horks one story, it should be assumed they've stolen everything they've posted. Even if they haven't, they deserve to be banned for the one.

I quite agree.

 

[RejectReality]

Tried to search a couple of other stories in hopes of showing more were stolen, but Google's utterly broken exact text search is worthless nowadays. Just realized that what I thought were long stories from the number of chapters were actually middling length stories broken up into tiny chunks for attention farming as well. This thief is a real piece of work.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Another website, that rhymes with lushstories, protects their copy. This is the bookmarked JS that ChatGPT wrote for me to undo their protection (because, in addition to preventing me from copying, it also prevents me from selecting for any reason, like websearch or dictionary): j-a-v-a-s-c-r-i-p-t-:- (function(){document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(e=>{e.style.userSelect='text';e.style.webkitUserSelect='text';e.style.msUserSelect='text';});})();

I do think for stories here on Literotica, the pagination is a slight hinderance to thieves. If you publish your novel of 50K words in 10 chapters, each one will have two pages. That's 20 cut and paste operations.

If they're doing it manually, yes. But it's not hard to write an automated scraper that will capture every page from a story.

One suggestion, that I think is not disallowed by LE, is to insert a unique string into your stories. Like "This text is copyright by Darwin1859." If you insert that into the middle of each story, it probably isn't a huge deal for the reader, but it probably makes it harder for the pirate and (probably) much easier to find your pirated stories elsewhere.

I've done this with some of mine. I've had one or two folk let me know when they found pirated versions of my stories on Amazon, though I don't recall whether it was the copyright trap or just that they recognised the story.

 

[MrHereWriting]

On my latest Lit posting an anonymous reader commented, asking me if I was Mom Lover on Storiesonline. Because he'd read my Aunt Tina story there posted by that person. I looked it up and sure enough Mom Lover posted Living With Aunt which is my story retitled. I have reached out to the admins and hopefully they will respond.

In the meantime, if you write incest stories you might want to check out this person and make sure he's not posting your work.

Laz, the guy who owns/runs StoriesOnline, doesn't really give two shits about posting other people's stories unless the original author makes a complaint and can prove it. Other than that, he seems a decent fellow.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Laz, the guy who owns/runs StoriesOnline, doesn't really give two shits about posting other people's stories unless the original author makes a complaint and can prove it. Other than that, he seems a decent fellow.

I was able to and he did remove the story from both sites. No complaints.

 

[MrHereWriting]

I was able to and he did remove the story from both sites. No complaints.

Well, you are alive.

Can't say the same for Alwayswantedto's stories posted as Alwayswantedto seven years or more after the man's death by someone claiming to be Alwayswantedto's legit, author-endorsed archivist, but, those stories are good for business, so any reason for someone to post them is a good one, I guess.