AO3 is being attacked by a bot

[miera_c]

Heads up, if you've got fic up on AO3, this Ebooks-tree site has a bot scraping fic and then posting links to their own page. 6 of mine got pulled. It's weird, because it's a random selection of fic and if you click on the entry and try to download the mobi version it pulls that download from AO3. The pdf download page hasn't been working for me at

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[kellifer_fic]

It looks like they've missed me thank goodness - I have the option checked to hide me from search engines so I don't know if that helps. I'd hate to do it because I know there are plenty of people on the site that read and don't have accounts - but am thinking of changing to Registered Users only for everything.

[seren_ccd]

They got some of mine, too. But very random ones. What a crap thing to do! I suppose locking them down is the best thing?

[miera_c]

Mine have all been pulled from ebooks-tree as of today. I don't know if they were responding to my email or AO3 did something, or threats from actual lawyers made them jump.

I'm keeping the fics locked for the moment since that would prevent an outside site from trying to download anything - I noticed yesterday that the links for mobi downloads were pulling from Ao3 which probably put strain on the site.

[krazykitkat]

They got 3 of mine, including Judging Amy story of only 200 words.

[miera_c]

They pulled 6 of mine at random, so I have no idea why they picked what they did.

My fics are all gone now. I emailed them a DMCA notice yesterday - you should probably check again and then if your stuff is still there send them an email.

[krazykitkat]

Apparently all the ao3 fics have been removed. Must've decided it was easier than dealing with lots of individual complaints.