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AO3 works being stolen and posted on rivd.net

We've posted these infos in our Discord server, but want to make them accessible for more of you AO3 anf fanfic folks out there. What is happening? A user called "Fanfic Books" on the site https://rivd.net is posting over a million of fanfics since May 18th, all of which seem to be stolen from AO3 users. You can check if your works were stolen by searching your AO3 username on that site. Reporting this on the site is tedious, and contains so much requested date about you that is just seems sketchy and like they want to grab your data to sell it off again. (See this for more on that.) Since the person posting the works is also listed as Moderator of the website, chances of successful reports are, by our estimation, very small. (As you can look up here.) Creating an account on that site is also tedious - after trying it, the feedback was that a moderator needs to approve of my account creation request. How long that is supposed to take is not known. What can you do? We deduced - through admittedly rushed, because we felt like time was of the essence, and and sparce, checks - that people who have their works locked on AO3 have not been affected. (At all/as much is not to say, it's our best hope and theory rn.) We advised our server members to lock their AO3 works for the time being, as currently seems like the only prevention method available. A great tutorial for that has been made here. Kudos to this X/Twitter post that seemed to have started the spread of information, and others relaying the infos (like e.g. r/AO3 on Reddit).

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