A Russian fanfic archive is mass-copying fics off of AO3

[Black Aeronaut]

Tumblr post reblogged to my account here:
https://blackaeronaut.tumblr.com/post/18...ks-copying

You know, there are times that I feel that a website is absolutely deserving to be utterly destroyed by hackers.

This is one of them.

[Star Ranger4]

*Sigh*

Is this *JUST* limited to archive of our own?

[robkelk]

Hmmmmm...

Get a bunch of high-profile AO3 writers to write stories where Putin is the villain (perfectly legal, outside Russia). Post those stories to AO3 (perfectly legal). Don't set the do-not-copy flag (perfectly legal). Watch as the Russian site gets shut down because of all the illegally-copied anti-Putin stories hosted on it.

Now, I'm not saying that this will work, or even that it's a good idea. But, hey, freedom of expression means I can post this sort of thought.

[Black Aeronaut]

Unfortunately, no, it's not limited to AO3. From what I understand, pretty much every fanfic archive out there is being targeted.

And Rob, that actually sounds like a great idea. From what I understand of the site owner's character, he would never have imagined that someone could write a fic that could get him into trouble for having it on his site.

[Dartz]

Just find the durtiest yaoi lemon imagineable and do a CTRL-F, CTRL-R replace on the character names. Problem solved.

Ukeputin?

[robkelk]

And Rob, that actually sounds like a great idea.  From what I understand of the site owner's character, he would never have imagined that someone could write a fic that could get him into trouble for having it on his site.

I've been feeling ill all week. I do most of my nastiest thinking when I'm ill.

Feel free to run with that idea.

[Matrix Dragon]

Given what happened with the SCP Foundation and Russia, yeah this doesn't surprise me.

[robkelk]

While you're at it, something else to put into anti-Russian-copying fics:

Moscow claims historical precedent for annexing Crimea. Be sure to describe the historical precedent for the entirety of Russia being ruled from St. Petersberg... and, before that, from Kyiv.