Okay folks, time for a rant/info dump. This one is actually important. If you have anything published on Wattpad, you need to read this. There is a chance your fic is being stolen and published on another site.
Search your pen name on this site if you have anything uploaded on Wattpad. At least four things of mine are published on there without my knowledge. After a little bit of research, that's all this site is. Stolen books originally published on Wattpad.
Heaven knows how long this has been happening, I only found out today. I had never heard of the site before! I don't know how Google's algorithm works, but a link to their stolen version of Captive is in the first page when I Google my username (yes, I do that sometimes, I like to see what pops up. Normally it's just popular fics or posts, not pirated versions of my fics).
This site doesn't just target fanfiction. Wattpad's Paid Stories are also being pirated. Which sucks for those authors, Wattpad may be a major source of income for them and pirating is seriously hurting them. But this means that Wattpad may be notified soon. Hopefully, this will mean legal action can happen.
If it were a handful of small fics, it's doubtful much would be done. But from what I've seen, this is affecting all sorts of people. Authors of Paid Stories, authors with 5 views, authors with 50k views, and everywhere below, above, and in between.
And, I'm going to be honest, I don't really know what to do. I'm distraught. I know, it's just fanfiction, it's not my source of income or anything. But I wrote it! And just because they give credit to me and put my username next to my fics doesn't mean it's okay. And I just hate this feeling. And all I can really do is spread the word. There's a bunch of petitions to take this down, but change.org petitions aren't exactly what's going to stop this. Every time someone has contacted the site, they got no response. And since none of my fics are copyrighted, I can't report a copyright infringement to Wattpad.
So, please, please, spread this around. We're unfortunately in a time where tagging is broken so reblogs are going to be what spreads this. If you know someone writing on Wattpad, let them know. They deserve to know that their fic has a high chance of being stolen by this site. If you know anyone that's an author of a Paid Story, let them know. They're the ones affected the most. And tell them to contact Wattpad about the copyright infringement. Wattpad is their publisher, and these sites are also kind of stealing from the site when they steal Paid Stories (since publishers get some money from what they publish). If they find this to be a big enough issue, hopefully they'll do something about it, bring in legal action.
