#fictionhunt

[edwardsmate4ever]

PSA- this is going on right now. I wouldn't care if the stories linked to my AO3 or ffn account, but no, it's fully copied and pasted to this site. Three of mine were there. Make sure you check for yours, and write them an email to take it down!!

@jessicanjpa @edwardskhakipants @palmofafreezinghand @gisellelx @acewardcullen @therealvinelle share far and wide!!!!

[rose-crash]

Well, this feels pretty weird

There’s this website called fictionhunt(.com). It appears to ‘archive’ fanfic off of FanFiction.Net . And, you know, generally I wouldn’t have that much of a problem with it… I just wish they asked for permission? Cause if you take something without permission, it’s theft. They seem to copy fics as they are being updated, and upload them under the original author’s pen name on their own site.

Here’s ‘my’ page:

The multichapter fics don’t have all the chapters they have on ff.net, which is also pretty weird. Not in the ‘I have no clue how this happened’ way, but in the ‘But… why?’ way.

Oh, and, I’d recommend you go and check out whether your fics are on there too. ‘Cause if you post on FF.Net, that is pretty likely.

Looking around, I found fics of (among many others): @nicopony79

@ludi-ling @miniwolfsbane

[bg-sparrow]

Oh look, another website is hosting my works without my consent.

You guys, I TIRE of finding my works on websites I did not put them on. FictionHunt has pilfered 12 of my stories without my consent. Granted, I'll give them a little credit for not being the assholes that are NovelHD/NovelWW; they credited my pen name instead of listing it as "Anonymous" or another author, and there is a "source" link to FFN, but they have the text copied and pasted on their website. They never contacted me, never reached out to say "hey, can we share your stories on a website we're building?" I would have been cool with that.

But they didn't. So now I have to wonder if the people I found plagiarizing my stories on Wattpad didn't just lift them from sites like this instead of me directly. Again, glad they at least kept my name on them and have a source link, but I don't appreciate having to discover this by googling the summaries of my own stories.

My husband said that I should be glad that the story I want to tell and share is being shared; they're doing me a favor. And in this case, maybe I half-believe that. But because my stories are on NovelHD/ NovelWW where they can't be removed - where they're posted by "Anonymous" - I'm hurt. I'm hurt that this twisted form of "flattery" is so disrespectful of an author's time and talent.

I get into a vicious cycle: I see my works in places I didn't put them, and I swear I'm going to stop writing. I vow to remove my stories altogether. But the problem is these websites will still have my work, and then I wouldn't have the timestamps on FFN or AO3 proving that I posted my content first. So, I always resolve to leave my works published so that if it comes to blows, I can show that I am the true author. And I can provide original notes for almost every one of my stories, but because they aren't verbatim to what is posted, I know that hardly matters in the realm of the interwebz.

My works are posted BY ME on FFN and AO3. A long time ago, I gave permission to a site called "moviefanficchains" to host my first fics, but never anyone else.

I know my stories will end up on other sites. I know that's how it works. I can't police it all. I know it's "just fanfiction", but it still hurts. I can't tell you how much my heart hurts for those who share their original works and have them stolen to be put on these sites; they probably rely on them for some kind of income whereas I don't. Yes, I enjoy sharing my stories far and wide and want them to be known. Just be courteous.

I don't know. How do you handle this stuff? If FictionHunt apologized, I might not mind having my stories hosted by them, but if they're going to be shady, I don't want to be associated with it.

It's just been five long months of dealing with plagiarism/ lack of consent with my works since I got back into writing. I'm tired. My motivation takes a HUGE hit, and the whole "what's the point" thing rears its ugly head. I'm obviously going to keep writing, and I'm going to keep calling people out on their bullshit.

I just needed to type this out so I can get back to writing. I only have six chapters left until I complete The Time Circuits Series - 72 chapters total across the five stories. And I am petulantly thinking about only sending physical copies of the ending to readers who request it at this point because that's how hurt I feel about all this.

Send hugs. And report assholes.

[jbankai89]

Keep Writers in control of their content, Remove fictionhunt.com

After this shit site ripped me off, I am all about watching them BURN.

Sign and Share!

[thirteenthblackbird]

FictionHunt taking our stories

This may be old news for some because I know this happens occasionally, but stories are being taken from fanfiction.net and posted at FictionHunt.com. The correct author names are posted with the stories so to find if you’re there just search on FictionHunt and your user name. I found 41 of my stories on the site. ;-(

For some of my stories, fictionhunt merely provides a lnk to ff.net but for others they have also copied my stories to their site with neither my knowledge or consent.

Be specific when e-mailing ([email protected]). Other writers have requested their fics and account be removed only to have the account locked which means no new stories updated but the current fics are not removed. Here’s the advice from the thread where I read about this site: Email them with a link to the profile and fics and ask them to fully remove. They generally just take off the fics and leave a link to your fic on Ao3 and Or Ff . Net. If you aren’t specific they’ll only “lock” the account.

Someone else posted this in a comment: The site is called www.fictionhunt.com and it is important that the authors of www.fanfiction.net go onto the site and make sure your fics are not being stolen. If that ends up being the case than you can contact the ISP and website host, requesting the site to be taken down. Here is the contact information: Hosting Company's Email: [email protected] His ISP: [email protected] Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected] Kane's (the guy who is stealing) email: [email protected]

If you’re interested, I heard about his on a Facebook group, Archive of Our Own (AO3) Writers. The post was yesterday the 21st of March 2019.

[cocoartistwrites]

I've started a revolution I'm so excited

[otterandterrier]

FictionHunt’s excuse for not asking the author’s permission is that it works as an archive to preserve works that get deleted from FFN, and that as it automatically picks all the stories submitted to FFN, it would be impossible for them to contact every author.

Well, you know what, don’t. I appreciate that it redirects you to the FFN work so that you can’t leave reviews there, but if you’re going to create an archive that contains the whole story and you don’t ask for the author’s permission, you are still reposting other people’s works without their knowledge or consent!

Having a say as to where our work is made available would be really nice. Contact the authors, and if they don’t plan on taking down their stories from FFN and don’t want their work reposted, put only the summary, details and link. Otherwise, don’t bother creating an archive.

[cocoartistwrites]

fictionhunt

So I just found out about fictionhunt which automatically reposts your work from fanfiction.net without asking. ALL my work was there and I had no idea, which is really upsetting.

However, if you email you can get it take down and your name added to a no archive list (and bc people can read on there it is stealing and reposting - a private copy for safe-keeping is not the same).

The email is [email protected] and you’ll need the links (their in site search engine doesn’t seem to work by author so I used google). 

Please reblog for people’s attention and if you see someone’s work there, let them know.

EDIT: 

They took mine down straight away. 

Also if you’ve deliberately deleted something it may still be up there.