MIRROR SITES & WATTPAD

Mirror Site?

@Azanthiel (a Wattpad Ambassador) was kind enough to reply to my post on the Ambassador's profile. This was their response.

Hi there!

That site is not actually copying content from Wattpad, they're looking at Wattpad through another webpage.

Sites like that are mirror or 'lens' sites. They look at Wattpad through a lens which usually carries their own logo, malware etc.

The Wattpad team are aware of these sort of sites and are working on getting them taken down, but they're usually located in countries that are less caring of copyright law and so can take a long time to get removed.

If you click on the site or any links related to that site you are likely at risk of a malware attack, so be sure to do a full threat/safety scan on your laptop/computer/phone.

For your safety and for your readers, you may want to include this message in the summary of your story on Wattpad (this also applies if you write on another site) - "If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe, form, please go to (insert profile link). Thank you." Hope this helps!

I do appreciate the response but IT DOES NOT ADDRESS THE FACT copy & paste function works on the teenfic.net site.

1. The site is registered and the servers are located in the US of A, so "but they're usually located in countries that are less caring of copyright law and so can take a long time to get removed," might not be factually correct as an explanation. In the USA the rules do APPLY!

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2. "If you click on the site or any links related to that site you are likely at risk of a malware attack, so be sure to do a full threat/safety scan on your laptop/computer/phone."

Apparently, this might be true but I did not face an issue! I have pretty good security on my work laptop and it detects and blocks such sites. It did not do so for teenfic. net.

Also, if I had been deterred, would I know copy /paste function works on the site?

Mirror Sites cannot do so. But this one does. How?

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3. "For your safety and for your readers, you may want to include this message in the summary of your story on Wattpad..."

That's a nice gesture but what about the safety of writers & intellectual property? That's what I'm concerned about!

I sure hoped @Wattpad would be concerned about protecting us writers too!

So, that's how it went so far! 

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