One of them is passworded -- with a flimsy system at best meant primarily to ensure people read the disclaimers and understand what they are about to see and read, as opposed to try and protect myself from TPTB ...
This is an interesting comment, though. I've put my fic up without pwding, but I do pwd the Star Wars and Potter stuff I've written. (No Potter slash yet, sad to say -- not without knowing more about how Snape ended up a Death Eater.) The passwords require an age statement from the person requesting them, which is no security whatsoever, but part of the reason why TPTB have disliked some SW and Potter explicit fic has been that they maintain that kids can get at it. At least this way, I've put up a bit of ass-covering for myself by requiring that someone state that they are over 18 before I send them the pwd for my SW/Potter fic.
Does it work? Not necessarily, although you'd be surprised at the number of requests I get that say, "May I please have the password?" and do not include an age statement. Perhaps they think sendmail lets me detect their age through the ones and zeros. :-)
But at any rate, part of my pwding is indeed as a sop to TPTB, just to let them know, should they ever find my stuff, that I am at least aware of their concerns.
As far as the validity of those concerns go, though ... Well, if Warner Bros. didn't want people to slash Harry Potter, they shouldn't have hired Alan Rickman and Jason Isaacs to play their characters. Those guys make my tongue vibrate.
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One of them is passworded -- with a flimsy system at best meant primarily to ensure people read the disclaimers and understand what they are about to see and read, as opposed to try and protect myself from TPTB ...
This is an interesting comment, though. I've put my fic up without pwding, but I do pwd the Star Wars and Potter stuff I've written. (No Potter slash yet, sad to say -- not without knowing more about how Snape ended up a Death Eater.) The passwords require an age statement from the person requesting them, which is no security whatsoever, but part of the reason why TPTB have disliked some SW and Potter explicit fic has been that they maintain that kids can get at it. At least this way, I've put up a bit of ass-covering for myself by requiring that someone state that they are over 18 before I send them the pwd for my SW/Potter fic.
Does it work? Not necessarily, although you'd be surprised at the number of requests I get that say, "May I please have the password?" and do not include an age statement. Perhaps they think sendmail lets me detect their age through the ones and zeros. :-)
But at any rate, part of my pwding is indeed as a sop to TPTB, just to let them know, should they ever find my stuff, that I am at least aware of their concerns.
As far as the validity of those concerns go, though ... Well, if Warner Bros. didn't want people to slash Harry Potter, they shouldn't have hired Alan Rickman and Jason Isaacs to play their characters. Those guys make my tongue vibrate.