Fuck all of you reposters and braindead defenders saying authors are greedy crybabies while you support thieves who want YOUR money *I* WROTE THIS NONE OF YOU MISERABLE FUCKS DID. fuck you fuck you and FUCK YOU
maybe we ARE in a literacy crisis if 125k people don't know the difference between “download for personal use” and “reupload to external websites without consent”
"You don't own the rights to your fanwork anyway!" - except you do on the grounds of that work being transfromative. Ao3 has two clauses explaining how it works. Which a platform with a full team of lawyers would know something about.
Maybe ACTUALLY read that ToS next time, hm?