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My Little Pony Is Sad (How Do I Say This In Czech?)
As we slowly come back online, I learned today that not only were AO3 and the Starsky & Hutch archives impacted by ebooks-Tree phishing scam, but the My Little Pony fic archive also had some of their epub files linked. Along with a fan’s uncle’s Czech plays.
Wattpad and FF.net were apparently not chosen because they do not offer pdf, mobi or eub downloads.
ebookstree update: I did not receive a reply but my fic is no longer listed on their site. So I’m satisfied.
After issuing a takedown notice, my AO3 fics were removed from Ebooks-tree.net
I never received any email or confirmation of removal from the site itself, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t being removed. I expect they are trying to do this as quietly as possible to avoid bad press.
Be sure to check the site itself to see if your fics are being removed. The emailing IS working. There are many fewer AO3 pseudonyms when I look through the author tags now than when I first was alerted to this.
And for those of you with AO3 accounts who haven’t checked the site to see if your stuff is up there, please be sure you do.
EBOOKS-TREE UPDATE:
So I emailed them this past week to remove my stories and they have yet to return any form of communication. HOWEVER I went on the website to take a peek and my stories have been removed. No email about it, no need for an attorney... Everyone should double check and see if their fics are still there!
All of the fics ebooks-tree stolen from my AO3 are now gone from their site. YES! Well the only good thing I can say about them is at least they didn't attempt to argue their way outta deleting the stuff they stole.
UPDATE ON EBOOKS-TREE
So relating to all of this stuff that was going on with ebooks-tree scraping my fanfics, i have good news!
All my stuff’s been removed!
And so has other people’s too. I searched a few names and didn't turn anything up so, eyyyyyyy. Well done folks.
Ebooks-tree thing
So looks like it’s shaking out now. As I emailed to my profic list...
A---, it appears that it's been discovered to not be a copyright issue after all, leaving it as "just" a phishing scam (I haven't heard any evidence of malware being involved, but I wouldn't be surprised) where they're using the names of professional (and other) authors and the titles of their works to draw in the scamees. Specifically, it seems that Ebooks-tree does not actually possess any works on it but instead is charging people just to follow a link back to where the works are hosted elsewhere. V---, this may explain why it's your samples that are already up Book View Cafe, as you mentioned to me before. I first saw this discovery through a fan works blog, and here's their post on it: http://ao3org.tumblr.com/post/116431401158/ebooks-tree-update However, even better news is that it seems Ebooks-tree has removed many authors' names and book/story titles. Many of the professional authors who I previously found on the site are no longer listed. Yay!
Yeah, if you haven’t looked at the page recently, it looks like they did take down AO3 authors and all the pro authors whom I’d seen on there before. Now go run a virus scan and check your browser extensions haven’t been changed.
Ebooks-tree Update
I followed the suggested instructions on AO3 for asking that works be removed from Ebooks-tree. That was on the evening of April 13th. It's the afternoon of April 15th, and while I did not receive a message back from Ebooks-tree, I did search again for my works, and they have been removed. Not sure if there have been any others who have been notified or not, or noticed if their works were taken down or not, but my suggestion would be, for those who have submitted the request to Ebooks-tree, to check the site after a few days. If my case is any indication, it looks like they are honoring the requests.
Here’s the link to AO3 with instructions on how to ask your fics be removed from the ebook site, if they were added there without your permission.
http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/2692?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_27801361
