Observed arrival · 2026-08-24
Privateer Wants to Keep Serial Fiction From Being Stolen
Privateer watches public serial-fiction pages for copied passages, preserves matching evidence, and prepares takedown drafts for an author’s approval.
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Privateer establishes an author’s control of a Royal Road story through a short-lived key placed in the public blurb, rather than asking for a manuscript upload. Its proposed signature process reads up to 10 public chapters once, keeps hashes and word positions, and discards the prose. The visible dashboard is still waiting for a scanner connection and shows no findings or notices, while the page says any takedown draft will require explicit author approval.
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