Epic fail. And let me go and put on my angry face.
I mean: rec lists and deliciousing and so forth are sane and sensible and a way to get people to read awesome stuff, but archiving/offering public downloads or author material without prior permission or authorisation is just wrongcakes.
About the only scenario I can see with up/downloading of another author's work in in cases of (self) site take down or story orphaning, where the author doesn't want the story posted publicly and associated with their pseud, but has given permission for one-to-one transfers between people.
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Date: 2010-03-01 05:31 pm (UTC)I mean: rec lists and deliciousing and so forth are sane and sensible and a way to get people to read awesome stuff, but archiving/offering public downloads or author material without prior permission or authorisation is just wrongcakes.
About the only scenario I can see with up/downloading of another author's work in in cases of (self) site take down or story orphaning, where the author doesn't want the story posted publicly and associated with their pseud, but has given permission for one-to-one transfers between people.