Here we go again

[lady_karelia]

Courtesy of renitaleandra, we know that The Potions Master dot net has struck again. I'm sure you remember the wank surrounding "Hermione", the guy, who took over from Azrael in none too kind a fashion and then proceeded to lift stories from other archives to host them there without authors' permission.

Now it is a "Stephanie", claiming a crash that forced "her" to use some old back-up material. Well, I had my doubts that this was the reason, but I just dug up some more: If it had been due to a crash that now all and sundry authors who distanced themselves during the first wank are hosted again, I couldn't be listed under both my pen names now, could I? *grumble* Seeing that I only ever posted a couple of stories on the original Whispers, which I then deleted before the wank even started, I find it hard to believe their crash has suddenly caused my other stories to jump to that archive, with one under a different name.

Oh, if anyone wants to see if their name is on there, I've found a listing of authors: http://index.thepotionsmaster.net/authors.php?list=authors

I'll wait a couple of days after sending off an email to stephanie@thepotionsmaster.net this morning. If there's no reply, I shall spam them with postings that violate their terms.

Comments

[southernwitch69.livejournal.com]

It's the same bloke of course (Chris).

The mofo has serious sexual identity issues, doesn't he? Why not be Snape or something.... lolsa

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sure it's the same one. I want to hex him/it.

[dhark-charlotte.livejournal.com]

TPM's Rules page is almost verbatum of the Rules page on Supernaturally Twisted: http://www.spntwisted.com/viewpage.php?page=rules

Not sure if this is a common thing, to copy another's legalese.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I suspect that Chris/Stephanie person wouldn't have the brain to come up with their own TOS...

[harmony-bites.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty positive I've heard the name "Stephanie" before as one of the aliases.

and one of the stories I deleted off *before* the wank is there again.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

I don't remember the names apart from "Hermione" *snerk*. There are so many authors there who aren't meant to be, sheesh. Does that person have nothing better to do??? The mind boggles.

[zoepaleologa.livejournal.com]

There are three fics of mine there, that I never bloody archived at that site.

I only archived part of "But You Alone" there (before the meltdown), before forgetting about it, and not bothering with the rest. I took BYA bits down from the official WIKTT archives this AM. I've sent an email to this person demanding a password, so I can remove my fics.

I'm moderately annoyed by this.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Only moderately annoyed? I'm royally pissed off with him/her/it. Not only did they steal my stories from TPP but also from Ash, and under my two different pen names. And of course, nobody so far has heard any reply...

[lady-rhian.livejournal.com]

Almost all of my stories posted at TPP are now posted at Whispers, and they're incorrectly rated to boot (last I checked I hadn't written any NC-17 work...). I emailed "Stephanie" and asked that my pieces be taken off. Thank you so, SO much for letting us know, dear! *glomp* If he/she don't take my stuff down soon... *cue angry symphony*

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

If he/she/it doesn't take our stuff down, I shall have to make up a sockpuppet on there and post something that violates their TOS as well as embarrasses them. *shrug* Such idiots... did they really think they can get away with stealing???

[veradee.livejournal.com]

For some reason (s)he only links to my stories at WIKTT, which I normally wouldn't mind, but since I had asked for my account to be deleted from Whispers last year, I'm unhappy to be listed there again in any form whatsoever.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some stories are only linked while others are copied and pasted from other archives. I'm fuming that they're doing this...

[teshara.livejournal.com]

Holy cow!
My fics are there!
Someone thought enough of them to swipe them!
YES!!!

[ariadne1.livejournal.com]

LOL! :) Congratulations

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I looked at it in the same way, but still... It pisses me off that he/she/it has posted my stuff without even informing me, let alone ask me.

[ariadne1.livejournal.com]

*awaits response to own email to have stories removed* *sighs*

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Good luck. So far, none of us heard from him/her/it.

[ltgarrix.livejournal.com]

Well, I was trying to see if I'm there, but I can't get the site to load. Not sure if that's good or bad. :(

this guy is such an idiot.

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Oh, the site is there alright. But the traffic has increased no doubt. It does go through periods of timing out...

Indeed, he takes idiocy to new levels *snerk*

[apythia.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get the site to load at all. I kept getting error messages.

You would think they/she/he learned their lesson the first time.

Do many people visit that site still?

[lady-karelia.livejournal.com]

Lots of us are urging people not to visit the site so he loses interest, so if it doesn't load, maybe he's working on it. Or something *snerk*.

He doesn't strike me as the learning type of person, honestly...