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Say an archive online takes your fanfic and your fanart, and publishes them without asking. It's not for profit, but it's still your stories being featured where you did not give permission for them to be featured.
Infuriating, huh.
Say they do the same not only with your fanfic, but they also take your personal notes and photographs, which at one time were online but were removed for very justified reasons.
A bit on the scary side, isn't it. There's very little you can do. In theory you can ask them (with a code) to never do it again, but that's complicated and requires certain things you don't want to be doing to your site.
If that happened, there would be an uproar in fandom! If your materials were archived where you don't want them, you'd be hurt. Wouldn't you?
No. I'm fuming alone.
I had stories I removed for a reason and non-fannish pics I took off for a reason, and they are all online. Fandom seems to think it's the greatest tool the internet's ever given them.
It's the Wayback machine, of course.
Now, there's a file you can add to your site (if you managed to find it, and you know enough how to handle your site to do so), and then if you "add your URL here" the Wayback claims they'd get off your back. Minor issue with this: the "add here" thing adds you to another crawler engine. And what if I don't want to? And what if your stealing - yes, STEALING - my things originally was, in my opinion of course, wrong?
It seems sometimes that I'm the only person on the internet, let alone in fandom, who sees anything wrong with this. With archiving my things without asking - without telling, in fact, because if I hadn't been informed by a random stranger, I'd never have even known it was there.
I know that some of you want access to the stories of authors that have long left your fandom or even the net, but many authors remove their things because it's their choice. Remember the part about the choice?
Infuriating, huh.
Say they do the same not only with your fanfic, but they also take your personal notes and photographs, which at one time were online but were removed for very justified reasons.
A bit on the scary side, isn't it. There's very little you can do. In theory you can ask them (with a code) to never do it again, but that's complicated and requires certain things you don't want to be doing to your site.
If that happened, there would be an uproar in fandom! If your materials were archived where you don't want them, you'd be hurt. Wouldn't you?
No. I'm fuming alone.
I had stories I removed for a reason and non-fannish pics I took off for a reason, and they are all online. Fandom seems to think it's the greatest tool the internet's ever given them.
It's the Wayback machine, of course.
Now, there's a file you can add to your site (if you managed to find it, and you know enough how to handle your site to do so), and then if you "add your URL here" the Wayback claims they'd get off your back. Minor issue with this: the "add here" thing adds you to another crawler engine. And what if I don't want to? And what if your stealing - yes, STEALING - my things originally was, in my opinion of course, wrong?
It seems sometimes that I'm the only person on the internet, let alone in fandom, who sees anything wrong with this. With archiving my things without asking - without telling, in fact, because if I hadn't been informed by a random stranger, I'd never have even known it was there.
I know that some of you want access to the stories of authors that have long left your fandom or even the net, but many authors remove their things because it's their choice. Remember the part about the choice?
