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**BUT there is still valuable information on how to protect your writing!!!
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Please read this and protect yourself. This is important and it is NOT spam or a hoax.
Hey everyone. Some of you have mentioned a website called Truyen (there's actually quite a few, but I've found two that seem to steal from Wattpad.)
There are two versions that showed up for me, but there may be others: truyenfun.com doc-tryen.vaoday.net
The only way I've been able to search and find my stories (since I don't know Vietnamese) is to type Truyen and my username into google.
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Finding any way to shut it down is nearly impossible, but I did risk the potential viruses and open the website and I can assure you that it is not a downloader. It is simply another site to read your story. It may potentially take away from your reads, views, etc if people actually use it, but they cannot just click a link and steal your story, so that is slightly reassuring.
The negative is they can, if they are really determined, copy and paste your story because unlike wattpad, that feature is not blocked. Although, like I said, it takes some effort. Clicking select all copies everything on the page and there's a lot so they would need to get it just right. Plus they would have to go through each chapter individually, and I barely have that much dedication to my own story. Lol jk... kinda.
I did find some info on Wattpad, from someone who seems rather knowledgeable SuperSuspicious. I highly recommend viewing their story here: https://my.w.tt/UiNb/KPJVDO8LWG
(As well as their Debunking Wattpad myths book, which is discussed in the next chapter.)
I will include screenshots of their information as well, so everything it's here in one place, not to steal credit from them, at all.
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Okay, so one thing you can do is add that info into your stories, maybe someone reading it has no idea that it has been taken from another website.
Otherwise, there seems to be little we can do. It sounds like more of a threat for Wattpad as a whole, so hopefully they are, in fact, taking this seriously.
That's all I have for you. Do you guys have any more information to add?
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Disclaimer: The information provided above is for your convenience. Please go check out this account and thier books for more information and to ask them questions directly: SuperSuspicious
