Pirated Novels

[Ai-chan]

Ai-chan is not okay with it, but it can't be helped that Ai-chan's stories provided for free are being pirated to pad up their pockets.

Ai-chan's answer is simple. You pirate Ai-chan's stories, Ai-chan stops writing. Ai-chan does not bless your robbery and Ai-chan hopes you die an early death soon.

 

[Erysion]

Ai-chan's answer is simple. You pirate Ai-chan's stories, Ai-chan stops writing. Ai-chan does not bless your robbery and Ai-chan hopes you die an early death soon.

"I'm a bot. How can you kill a bot? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
-Web Scraper, probably.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

I have had it happen a few times. I'm honored by the fact that a bot thought it was popular enough to steal. However, if the one who stole it doesn't give credit where it's due then I'll send a message to the site owner. It'll usually get taken down within a day or two. Though the only reason I do this is because I hope to officially publish my work in the future.

 

[Ai-chan]

"I'm a bot. How can you kill a bot? What a grand and intoxicating innocence."
-Web Scraper, probably.

The webhosting is still paid for by an actual human. The programmer of the scraper is still human. The admin of the pirate site is still human. If the owner of the site is dead, the site will also die in about a year.

 

[UnknownSaint171]

For whomever's novel has been pirated, did it feel good? Like, did you take some sort of pleasure knowing that someone took the time out of their day to Ctrl+V Ctrl+C each individual chapter and post it on some pirated website like lightnovelpub? Like, in a weird sort of way, you were "worthy" enough to be pirated. Either your story's very good or the numbers were just skyrocketing.

I noticed that Elyon, author of "Reincarnated with the Strongest System" was quite active on lightnovelpub, a website that mostly pirates from webnovel. Judging from his comments, he doesn't seem too bothered by the fact that his work is being stolen, rather, he seems flattered, interacting with other users and answering their questions in a fun, friendly manner. Which just got me curious as to how other authors feel about this matter.

I think I'd be a little flattered but at the same time frustrated because it does affect a Writer's revenue. All that hard work goes into one chapter...
I think everyone feels the same.
As for pure free writing, I think one should at least still copyright their work. There have been cases in the past where people pirate other authors' work on other sites and I have no idea how much time it takes just to take the novel down.