Are people really this stupid?

[switch842]

If any of you know Pepe's Place, this post concnerns that. I'm on the mailing list for the site updates and Pepe just posted something rather shocking and disturbing: Apparently, someone, thought it would be OK to take her story, An Act of Pain (which is brilliant and you all need to go read now), and write a sequel to it without her permission. It was called "An Act of Compassion" and was apparently posted at the Alphagate. As if that wasn't bad enough, supposedly, it was completely un-betad and a horrible piece of shit. If any of you are on the list, you know it takes her months or even years to finish her stories. And they are worth that much time. That someone just decided to whip out this piece of shit thing in a day or two is so unbelieveably rude and....something, I just want to find whoever did that and bitchslap them. What makes people think they can do this? Is there no sense of etiquette or right and wrong any more? It's just so unbelievable rude, I don't know what to say. Luckily, the site it was posted on has taken appropriate action and the story has been taken down and I'm sure something said to the author, but stil.... I want to write back to Pepe, but I have no idea what. I just don't get it.

Comments

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have not read the "sequel." Just reading what Pepe posted about has me all aghast with the wrongness of it. I just can't believe that someone would even have the gall to do something like that. I'm assuming it was someone new to the fandom cos no veteran or not-so-newbie would do something like that....

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

pretty much!
that's not only intellectual property theft BUT intellectual property butchery... err, evisceration (butchery implies a method, and your description implies NO method)

[switch842.livejournal.com]

I kind of almost want to read it just to see how bad it was. Kind of like a train-wreck or car accident thing. Oh! And another thing, apparently Pepe had a sequel in mind and that's now been blown to shit because of this. Grrrrrrrrrr........ (I really need a "Pissed Off" icon like your or something. I may have to fiddle when I get home...)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

is that like almost wanting to read beagle!fic to see how bad it has gotten since the last time you yielded to temptation & then had to use brain!bleach?
and this icon has proven useful, lemme tell ya!

[switch842.livejournal.com]

OMG! Those beagle stories are HYSTERICAL!! It has been months since I last checked in, though...

[trika.livejournal.com]

Noooo!!!! Don't do it. Save yourself. Step away from the badfic!