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I congratulate you on your multitasking abilities, but you've obviously taken my post in the wrong vein; I don't care if anyone has a thousand groups, merely wondered how you could keep up with them, but then I wondered that about my wife's bingo cards and she did just fine. All in good humor I thought, but I accept that it wasn't taken as such - my bad. So, no, I don't need a reminder as to what the site is all about, but thanks anyway. Take care. Vern

If Adverse Possession is your only concern, then it takes 20 years (in NC at least, other states may be different) of open defiance and claim on the property. So not exactly a major concern or the same thing. As soon as your work is posted here, it is copyrighted, not exactly leaving the door open for anyone. All the concern about stealing plots etc.  just doesn't make a lot of sense; it is widely accepted there are only seven plots (yes some make minor adjustments for a few more or less, but it's close enough) so I rather doubt anyone has a new one to hide. It is all in the details and it's rather unlikely someone is going to stick around for let's say a year or so for us to complete our books so they can exploit excerpts of it from the forums and if that unlikely possibility happens, then it is still copyrighted from it's first written exposure, to include the forums.

As stated previously, how is anyone going to find your work in the forums if they don't know what to look for which requires someone like the author or someone who has read it to tell them what to look for? It takes a specific search to find something and that specificity is coming from inside, not outside the site. We're probably all (including me) concerned about protecting our work, but the reality is that the danger is vastly overblown by our self imposed fears. I for one know there is always some miniscule chance it could be pirated, but I'm not going to stew over it any more than I would about getting struck by lightning which is a much greater possibility imo. Take care. Vern

No one is saying privacy isn't useful or wanted, only that you are not going to have it completely on the internet. If governments and large corporations can't keep prying eyes out, how exactly do propose doing it on this site? That has nothing to do with the concept of wanting privacy and everything to do with wishful thinking. Take care. Vern

Let's get realistic; nothing is safe on the internet, period. Just being a premium member and posting to only groups/connections does not protect your work. For less than ten bucks, anyone can join for a month and have access to all posted work of premium or basic members and it's doubtful even the private groups would turn down a potential new member should they ask to join. Ten bucks is not going to really thwart anyone so inclined; it's probably cheaper and faster than hacking the old fashioned way.

As Linda pointed out, the automatic copyright on site protects your work as well as anything and can be used in court to defend it and go after anyone who profits from it. Of course using a pen name is a no brainer should your work become famous and someone starts to Google  your name to find non-public info. If I Google my real name, none of my writing shows up since I don't use it, at least in the first million or so entries and should someone want to put that much effort into finding it, then there is probably nothing which can prevent it, and certainly no constraints on this or any other writing site.

Common sense is our best defense, but yeah, I wouldn't mind paying the lawyers after the fact that someone else has made millions from my work when so far I haven't been able to get a traditional publisher or movie mogul interested as the original author. If someone else can knock down the doors, then all they need do is come to me and I'll gladly offer an agent's commission for their efforts.

So, yeah, we can worry ourselves sick over the possibility of our work being hijacked or we can accept that absolutely nothing is safe from prying eyes on the internet and deal with any future stolen property rights with the courts on our side should it come to that. Just my opinion which has been stated in similar forums before this one. Take care. Vern

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Congrats to all. Take care. Vern

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