I was looking through my tumblr when I found this little interesting mention: The site, ebooks-tree.com, was discovered to be taking stories from writers and selling them through downloads. Normally, I wouldn't take notice, but I checked out the site and found some of my friends' stories there as well, unbeknownst to them. Here is the post:

"We’ve been getting pings and @’s all morning about ebooks-tree.com who seem to be scraping/taking stories off of AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site; the site seems to be pulling from UrBookLibrary as well. They’re not reading your “do not copy/duplicate” notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3′s authorization or assent. It looks like they are pulling from Wattpad too, again without authorization or assent.

While the Ebooks-Tree DMCA page seems to imply that you need a lawyer or other “authorized person” to submit a takedown notice, you don’t; you can do it yourself.

As we’ve posted before, fanfic writers hold copyright in their stories, although not in lines/quotes from the works they’ve been inspired by, and because of that, fanfic writers can submit DMCA takedown notices, or have someone do it on their behalf."

http://www.ebooks-tree.com/

Just wanted to spread the word.

Well... There is a spread the word thread in Missions already...I believe it's called "signal boosting".

This doesn't exactly have a news article for proof like I keep asking for... We would actually have to fact check this ourselves instead of you providing the evidence as proof of this being true...