Nicola,

The problem with the copy protection that you talk about can be defeated by any Macintosh by taking a screenshot. I don't really use a PC, but I'm sure this can be done with easily downloaded software.

I can snapshot a photo, logo, and text. Text would be a graphic.

 

Yes, you can always get around it that way, but by taking a snapshot, wouldn't the person then have to type the information into a text document? Most plagiarists go after easily stolen works that they can simply select, copy, and then paste directly into a wordprocessing software. While disabling the feature would not stop them completely, and in reality just about anything concerning a pc can be gotten around, it would at least help deter them. Plagiarists, like any thief, is going to go after the least labor-intensive loot. They will not spend any more time, energy, or money ripping off the stories than they absolutely have to. In short, if they have to type it all over again or spend a large amount of money on software to get the story, they will often bypass the stories that require actual work to steal and go for those that they can simply copy and paste. I'm not saying it would stop all of it, but it would certainly make them work harder for their ill-gotten gains.

 

Disabling copying

Nicola,

There is no way possible to prevent whatever is on a webpage from be copied. What you are referring to is just a javascript that basically disables the right click function. That can be gotten around very easily. What you have to remember is that if it's shown on your monitor, it's in your computer and can be copied. There just is no possible way to make it viewable and non-copyable.

There is a way to encrypt the underlying html code of the webpage so it's not readable by humans, but this will not stop copying either as it is still displayed in plain text or plain view.

Bottom line is that anything that is put on the internet to be viewed can be copied. There are no tricks to get around this. Yet. Someone like the RIAA or Microsoft will try to come up with some DRM scheme to "protect" their stuff, but like DVD CSS encoding, it was broken and can be defeated by a simple one line perl script.

So don't blame xnxx or asstr for being copied. There's just no way they can control that. The right click javascript defeat is just a trick... one that isn't at all effective to anyone who knows the tech.

Wish I could give you more hope. DMCA takedown notices are probably the best so far...pain in the @$$ but so is spam, hacking and all of the other things on the 'net that dishonest people come up with to ruin it for everyone else.

Ole

 

she needs some one to pay her a visit and teach her a lesson the old fashioned way.

 

hmm

Brandi so you know what you just did is a Felony. Seriously.. federal prison time and a permanent record.

If this really bothers some of you theres an actual legal no internet-drama-attention-whore solution.

Approach the publisher. If she/he is just doing it directly through amazon you have two alternative solutions. One is a cease and desist order from a lawyer.. cost you probably 100 bucks. They'll pull her shit so fast it isnt funny. (If youre not legit this isnt a good idea.. it makes you liable if youre bullshitting). Second provide amazon links etc to proof of copyright and inform them they have 2 weeks whatever, and that you'll be instigating legal action against he author and amazon. In corporate culture that means it goes directly to the legal department rather than a 9 buck an hour customer service slave.

Truth is that she's probably not making jack off this and its seriously doubtful you have any real legal recourse because of that. But you can stop her legally if a: youre legit b: you are willing to put hte work into stopping it.

 

Those fuckers!

 

Posted on another site:

Writers, please be aware of some other erotica thieves selling stories on Amazon (I got this info off another message board). There is some speculation that they may all be the same person using different 'pen names' but you might want to check to see if you recognize any of your stories, or those of your friends. Apparently they occasionally use the tagline as the title, so just fyi.

Louise Taylor
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Louise%20Taylor

Victoria Anderson
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Victoria%20Andersen

Kelly Jordan
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Kelly%20Jordan

and

Based on her Amazon reviews this isn't the first time she's stolen work. She lifted another story from a guy named Sir_Nathan. She's publishing through Amazon Digital Services. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

Apparently, a lot of writers are getting Amazon accounts and going after this woman and all her AKAs. There's been a tremedous amount of information sharing going on. Maybe someone will listen.

 

It is not a felony here. I did not make a direct threat to the person. Freedom of speech. How do you know what I meant? you are assuming. maybe that old fashioned way is scrubbing baseboards. I have been on sites in which much worse material is posted and the LE monitor regularly and they have no issues with language/comments like mine. I also have had my writings and ads stolen on the net before and I tell you most times by the time you catch up to the person they have probably moved on. seriously you should be more concerned with real illegal activities that are going on under your nose.

 

OC I wish I had just 1/10 of your technical knowledge! Can I borrow some real quick?

 

Anonymous Authors
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...text&field-keywords=anonymous+authors&x=0&y=0

Check these out too. It is a "compilation" of sorts for sale. A lot of the writers are on competitor's sites.

I think I spotted "For the Love of Holly" up there by our very own WSF. Might be worth checking in on.

 

That's mostly true.

What someone could do, in theory, is create their work (I'm talking a story now, you know, just text) and then turn it into a graphic. Then just post the graphic. It can be read, easily, by humans, but it cannot be copied into word processing. Hence, no easily stealing. If it is save as a .gif, because it is just text, it shouldn't be very large, either, so size wouldn't be a problem.

This wouldn't work in the Stories section as it is currently set up (no graphics), but, it should work here, in the Forum.

Just food for thought.

 

How do you get to view the titles of the stories? I don't see an option.

 

Click on the title link and the "author" lists the titles.
Google the title with quotation marks and on the outside of the quotes put sex stories, or the story site of your choice without its suffix. The majority of the time, your search will come up with a story titled matching your search terms. At least that's what I did.

 

Copying

It's entirely true. Anything that is displayed on the monitor can be copied.

Since anything displayed on the monitor can, for all intents and purposes, but copied, the image could then be run through very good OCR software to give text/characters from the graphic. If you doubt that, look at any of the captcha images that are being used on many sites to try to differentiate between human and computer. The images have to be so distorted to fool the computers that often they can't be recognized by humans.

Not trying to put too fine a point on it, there may be some exotic way to try to defeat the copying, but for all practical purposes, it's not feasible, even with .gifs. .jpgs, html encryption or base64 encoding. At least with current web technology and based on current efficiencies and economics.

My original statement still stands.

Ole

 

More than believe you, I agree with you. I've been in the industry for many, many years. What I mean is that I don't know if thieves will bother going through all that work when it is easier to scrape. If they are stealing in the first place, it's because they don't want to put forth enough effort in the first place, so having to do extra work while stealing may not be appealing.

You remember the early days, when you could "hide" the html code by putting in dozens and dozens of blank lines at the top and then put something like "This code protected by blah blah blah" and most people wouldn't think to scroll down...ah, the good old days.

 

I hope Anyone of you who are affected by this bitch can some how get together through the internet and file a class action suit against her.
Bankrupting that fxxxing cow wouldn't be enough.
It's not just stealing your work but part of your soul.
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Personally, I don't give a rat's ass whether someone plagiarizes my stories. It gives boost to my vulnerable ego that some people might get some fleeting pleasure from reading my stuff. And in the unlikely event that a plagiarist uses my work, and a few more people read it, so much the better.

My readers don't know me under my pen-name and won't know me with the plagiarist's name - no difference.

In the extremely unlikely event (like 1 in 100 billion) that a plagiarist makes money from my stories it will be merely another event in a long cavalcade where fortune and a life of indolence have evaded my grasp.

They say, although I have never met one of these "theys", that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Maybe plagiarism doesn't come far behind.

 

I will come back to take a look in a day or two.. Hope someone finds a route to handle this.. The Kindle book thing may give some problems..

I may go through this and publish something.. but I will mix copyright pictures through out.. Not just text.... and see what happens..

 

I just spent about an hour surfing,

and we're all everywhere! Me, blueheat, Daddycums, Onehandedtypist, Nicola, you name it, they're out there.

I understand the viewpoint of some posters on this thread who say that imitation (or copying) is the sincerest form of flattery, and I have no delusions that my work is worth BUYING, but someone is making money off our stuff, and it's not us.

Nicola's suggestion that the site should encrypt our work so it cannot be copied is good, on the face of it. However, as some have pointed out, that would only slow a determined plagiarist down, not stop him. Hell, if it's possible to hack into credit card information or the Pentagon, it sure shouldn't be that hard to hack through security on a porn site.

So I'll ask -- what is everyone else's feeling on this? Should we pull our stuff? I see two problems with that. First, it's a little like locking the barn after the horse has been stolen. Second, getting an admin to respond to such a request has proven to be somewhat more time-consuming and difficult than counting the grains of sand on the beach during a hurricane.

Am I being negative? Probably, but what's a person to do?

 

Be kinda' funny if we start having to post copyright notices in the middle of stories, or thing like "If you have stolen this story, you agree to pay $10,000 in damages, blah blah." Don't know if they read what they steal.