Regarding Rules 3/7, and turncoat authors who burned their work

[magic9mushroom]

Certain porn authors burn their freely-released work as part of an attempt to become a professional writer, sometimes in an attempt to start selling that work and other times due to wanting a public image "untainted" by porn. We have quite a few threads here that have had their story posts removed as part of this practice.

Is it against the rules to link to archived versions* of this work? (Asking because some people might consider this piracy.)

Furthermore, if it is permissible, does posting a link to an archived intact version of a story count as a "significant contribution" to dead threads that have had their story posts burned? Certainly, it would greatly increase the amount of story accessible in said threads from "zero". (Yes, I want to piss on some of these people's "QQ graves" by making the threads they've disembowelled contain access to their work again.**)

*Snapshots of free off-QQ sites, as QQ's NSFW section is not crawlable.

**NB: I get that you don't really like people posting stories that they didn't write without permission; I'd be sticking to links.

 

[ThedudeManBro]

Now that you talk about it I think I still have a handful of Pef's Worm porn before he nuked it... Huh.

 

[tacobowl8]

So, to answer your question:

Posting an archive or simply just purged stories that another author did is indeed against the rules. Partly for Rule 3, because that is the author's works, and regardless of if they purged them, they are still theirs, so that would be a mild plagiarism/linking to pirated material. It could also be smacked under Rule 1, as that is definitely being a dick.

Following that, if you did this to try to reopen a thread, that would also tack on a Rule 7 violation.