No longer able to highlight text in fics

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Not just me, right? If this is permanent, my best guess is that it was done to deter plagiarism by putting an end to people being able to just right-click copy whole stories.

10/11/2013 update: "Basic copy protection of story content within modern browsers. Currently it is enabled for all but authors will be able to disable/enable this feature in a coming update."

http://blog.fictionpress.com/2013/10/11/languages-for-navigation/#comments

No clue why they're just now telling us this, but hallelujah at it being optional \o/

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I have been victim of people cut and pasting from my stories to theirs (both between fanfiction.net and outside to other blogs) I was happy to see that fanfiction.net is at least attempting to address the problem. Too bad that it can be so easily circumvented.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that it would be good to put in some story protection measures, but I feel that this is the wrong way to go about it. Like you said, it's rather easy to circumvent. I can't personally think of a way to avoid the stories being copied to outside blogs, but I think that they could put in some kind of text search-and-match thing that would look for similar (as in, almost the same) chapters already posted and not allow for the posting of a new one without review.

Of course, with the number of stories, that might be an expensive algorithm.

[(Anonymous)]

A) That's stupid. The computer should be doing what the user wants, not someone on the other side of the Earth.
B) Just use DMCA.
C) Name and shame the fake 'authors'.