Neil Faulkner wrote:
There's not much profit in online bootlegging, so I can't see why anyone should want to do such a thing. What's the point?
Presumably, getting the credit for something without doing the work. Fanfic plagiarism crops up irregularly but persistently; there are a few individuals who simply can't see anything wrong with taking someone else's story, changing a few words (often adapting to a different fandom by simply substituting character names & descriptions), and posting it as their own work. They tend to get caught fairly soon and stomped on hard by the fannish community, but there are always some who will try it (and some who come back and do it again after being caught.)
- Lisa
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