ao3 has protection against basic data scraping which is used to train AI, taking works offsite exposes them to that risk also, a lot of these fics may have been only accessible for registered users on ao3 and sharing it is going against the author's express wish that the work only be read on ao3

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As someone who has had my entire set of works from years past downloaded and redistributed on sites I'd never even heard about without my consent, at least consider that the authors whose work you enjoy so much might not appreciate it.

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Unpopular opinion about the AO3 outage but before you upload those downloaded fics of other authors somewhere that's *not* AO3, please consider those authors may not appreciate redistribution of their work without consent. If they want to make it available elsewhere it should be their choice.

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Clearly this is an appointed and not an elected position

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Thousands of fics on people’s gdrives, now open for everyone to read. And yes, that FAQ is specifically about reposting on AO3, but still! 🙃 There's also the risk of unintentionally circulating archive-locked works far beyond their intended audience. Those works might have been locked for a reason.

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