Plagerism Warning

[Hiei]

Okay I'm going to do my best to remain civil here but it isn't easy. Today while checking my email I found a letter from a fan who warned me that someone might have stolen one of my stories. Present (in the Street Fighter section here) to be exact. Now I originally posted Present on my own site and on Shojou-ai in the Capcom vs SNK section, after being stuck in Saudi Arabia for six months.... in 2002. This little thief posted my story November, 2006, immediately after I posted it here.

This set off some warning bells. So while I was at work Oishii checked out the rest of "his" stories. Both poems were stolen from RPGamer and one other story was jacked from Shojou-ai. ("Tell Me", Robert Silvers) I'm not going to do research on each and every one of the stories on FF.net under his name but I figured I'd let everyone know in case one of the people here was a victim as well.

Here's a direct link to the offending person's profile on FF.net:

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1070325/

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[Guest Serenanna]

::leaves the guy a scathing review and uses the report abuse function:: Geez, the nerve of some fanbrats. ::eyebrow twitch:: Anyone else report this to ff.net yet?

Sere

[Hiei]

Well me of course but FF.net seems to hate me so I doubt that'll happen.

[Guest Madapple]

Of course the Mods of AFF can do nothing about these other sites. All we can do is encourage you to report plagues to the site admins.

However, as you all know, plagues are not tolerated on this site. All claims are thoroughly investigated and action taken according to our findings.

Hiei, whether or not they like you does not excuse member abuse. I hope this issue is resolved quickly.

[Hiei]

I understand, I'm not trying to get AFF.net to do something to FF.net, mainly this was done because if he copy/pasted from my stories the same day they were posted here he might have done the same thing to other authors here, as the title said, it was mainly a warning.

And the fact that the site admins at FF.net play favorites is one of the main reasons I moved all my works here and will not publish even my non hentai stuff on FF.net.

[Guest Evil_Labs]

Like so many other degenerate rejects of the evolutionary path, this fool too shall pay the price for his lack of vision. If he's not gone already, he will be soon.

[AlphaFusion]

Why bother? Why would anyone want to steal aother person's work? It's just retarded, seriously. It's like a person can be so inane to a point where he or she couldn't even make up a fictional story on their own without having to plagerize other people's work. Absolutely disgusting. It's a disgrace to mankind.

[Guest echtrae]

But oddly enough, people still do it. A curious thing, isn't it?

[AmyMcClair]

I did a little research, and found that all but four were definitely stolen. What was this person thinking?

[dazzledfirestar]

I did a little research, and found that all but four were definitely stolen. What was this person thinking?

I think you may have hit upon the problem, exactly, there. They weren't thinking.

[Hiei]

They were probably thinking (and I use the term loosely) something along the lines of "These are old stories that got good reviews, I want good reviews, I'll post their stories and call them my own!"

Still makes no sense to me. How can getting a positive review on a story you didn't write boost your ego?

[AmyMcClair]

Well I think they get an ego boost because they justify it by saying that they went through the work of copying/pasting, etc.

[Iggy_lovechild]

But...but...it still makes no sense right?

I mean, they know it's not their work. So how can they justify anything?

...Of course there are those really obnoxious assholes who think it's okay to plagerise fanfic authors because it's not like we're real writers.

[Keith Inc.]

How can getting a positive review on a story you didn't write boost your ego?

Easy. You go on a forum and say 'Yo, homies, chick out teh story i writed!" and they're all 'Dood, you gots mad written skills at this!'

[Hiei]

Which basically makes this and all other writing thieves firmly in the "For the love of all that is holy I hope you get a full Darwin Award" category.

Whilst taking Information technologies 101 I had to do an essay about why someone would plagiarize another person's work. Most people said it had to do with lack of planning and organization, I proposed that it had to do with lack of confidence in one's own abilities.

Kinda jinxed myself I guess.

[AmyMcClair]

Well one should always try to look on the bright side of things. You should feel flattered that someone liked your work enough to call it their own. And all the while, you should be reporting the crap out of that person on any site they have posted.