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I'm not 100% certain of this, but it seems likely.

As everything with the tags 'fanfic', 'fan fic', 'fanfiction' or 'fan fiction' is being taken automatically, the simplest workaround seems to be to change your 'fanfic' tags to just 'fic'. The only entry from my actual journal that has been taken is the one deliberately labelled 'fanfic' and the only community that my headers have been re-posted from is

torchwoodcoffee, coincidentally the only community I post to that uses 'fanfic' in their tags.

I'm thinking that the person or persons behind the website that's taking our posts, this one here: http://www.donotlink.com/framed?561309 is not going to risk taking things just labelled 'fic' because of the risk of taking original fiction. Fanfic might be considered fair game, but if they start stealing and re-posting someone's original fiction they could get in trouble. Just a theory of course - especially since we don't seem to have any way of acting against the site to prevent what they're doing - but changing your tags might prevent further posts being taken.

I'm trying an experiment - I cross-posted yesterday's drabble 'Buffet Lunch' to

torchwoodcoffee , but this time I only used the 'fic' tag, ignoring 'fanfic' and 'fanfic: drabble' which I would normally have tagged the entry with. Let's see whether or not it gets taken...

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Re-posted from

tardisjournal

Somebody with this website is repostings several authors/fanartists fics on there without listing the name of the authors/fanartists on there and apparently in most cases, without permission. I've seen a good number of stories/fanart I'm familar with on the site (all of them most likely swiped from LJ and LJ comms as several LJ links to the original authors LJs are still attached), so if your fic/art I'd definitely tell this person to take it down immediately.

It's looking increasingly likely that the it's being done automatically, via a 'bot as there seems to be no rhyme or reason to what's taken. The site calls itself a fanfiction site, but many of the posts there are NOT fanfiction, though they may mention the subject. The only unifying factor is that they're tagged with words such as 'fanfic' fan fiction' etc. In some cases (mine included) it's just the headers of fics getting copied from various sites, in others it's complete posts taken directly from people's own journals. This is something that must not be allowed to continue. Some of the posts aren't even directly attributable to the actual author because not everyone puts their author name in the headers of fics posted to their own journals.

The headers and links for at least 78 of my fics and drabbles have been copied to the site. All seem to have been taken not from my journal (I'm one of the luckier people affected) but from the posts I've made to the

torchwoodcoffee community.

I have left a complaint (well, two actually) on the website, requesting that all of my posts be removed, but I haven't heard back yet and my posts are still there.

I recommend checking the site thoroughly to see if any of your own posts have been re-posted there. It takes some time to go through all the posts, they've been at this since March 2011, but if you don't want your posts appearing somewhere you have no control over, it's the only way to be sure. If the site owner gets enough complaints, maybe it'll do some good, at least getting as many posts removed as we can.

Spread the word, and tag your warning posts with words such as fanfic, because then there's a chance they'll get posted to this thieving website - there are three there already - and serve to alert visitors to the site to what's being done without our consent.

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I had an email this morning, supposedly from paypal, saying my account had been restricted because they thought it had been accessed by a third party and if I didn't respond with my full bank account details within 24 hours my account would be suspended.

I'm sure this is a hoax as the page was not secure (i.e. the box where the URL for the page is located was not green with the padlock symbol), so watch out. It's way too easy to get caught out when an email has all the correct logos and looks legit.

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