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You are assuming that the top 1% got there based on merit and not money laundering -- a major feature of the business these days.

They've also scraped HackerNews posts. Since I posted blog links to HackerNews, does that mean they stole all of my blog posts? That represents three years of work and the chapters of 3 books that I intend to publish. They just took it and will start delivering it to their users to help them write more interesting content? Not okay.

This still seems to be happening two years later. A person complained about seeing a book sold under their name for 550 USD. It contained gibberish and the sales were recorded as income to the IRS even though the owner of the account couldn't find out where the money went. Amazon wouldn't tell her who had opened a bank account in her name. I suppose they prefer to deal with such accounts behind the scenes.

thanks!

my problem is that I don't know what sort of organization has targeted me. https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/authorial-qui...

thanks, but Germans aren't allowed to use it.

You can use major plot details from other books, the issue is how many and how sequentially arranged they can be. This author is dealing with several people who sat down and sequntially copied 35-45 plot twists/details on a page by page basis.

If you take 45 sequential, critical, unique lines of code or equations from a patented, copyrighted project, you could be in a lot of trouble. I think it is okay to take less than 14 sequential, unique plot elements but I'm not sure about how this would apply to lines of code made up of proprietary equations.

Those sorts of attacks work on an author who has only been ripped off by one publisher, but when there are six or seven, the attacker ends up looking like the nut job. Just wait until next year. Somebody delivered this as a poison pill to the whole industry. When the same new story shows up in seven locations within two years, bad actors are easier to identify.