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Originally Posted by thecookiemommma
I am personally slightly frustrated by this attitude, because with Copy Paste, and GrabMyBooks and several other means available to download and capture the text, it's not a sure sign that someone's not going to be able to access their work in a downloadable format.
I understand the fears. I've had some of my own fic ... not verbatim plagiarized, but poorly riffed (and I was pretty offended by it), but I still want as many readers as possible to read my stuff. But I, too have seen a couple authors who have switched sites like four times to avoid downloadable content.
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Agreed. No predicting whether somewhere out there someone didn't save that embarassing fic you thought you'd managed to obliterate off the 'Net, really: I found I have a few of those taken down fics saved back in the early 2000's when I was going through the saved fic folders trying to import to calibre. I made an argument for why fear of easier duplication shouldn't be a reason to spurn more modern services than FFN, but well, no convincing cattle that won't drink the water from your trough!