Probably not, but I thought I would ask anyway.
I dunno if it's accessible to members, or only to moderators, but there's a page here (sometimes after I cross-post with freerepublic, three pages) that lists who's all here, what they're up to (i.e., what they're reading), and their ISP (internet service provider number).
The same thing for guests, excepting it just says "guest," and then the information.
The most common "activities"--what people are doing here--are "viewing," "commenting," "posting a new topic," and lesser actions such as "composing personal message" or "reading personal messages" or "unknown action." And of course "using the spellchecker."
And oh, one other--"printing."
There's usually a "guest," the ISP number from Lost Angeles, "printing."
The ISP number varies, but it's always from a Hollywood-type of place in or near Lost Angeles.
I've been intrigued by this singular phenomenon for some months now; not least because this person in Lost Angeles is always "printing".....short stories by franksolich.
I know this person has "printed" every episode of the William Rivers Pitt, the 740-cubic-tons mound of antique swine excrement from 1875-1950, that is a prominent landmark here. In case anyone's forgotten, I wrote over 50 of those episodes about the William Rivers Pitt, until the good-looking chick asked me to defer for a while until her Ph.D. thesis on it is done.
(Notice the "defer for a while," which is not the same thing as "stopping".)
This person in Lost Angeles has probably used cases of reams of paper, "printing" my short stories.
One wonders why.
And so two questions.
One can only speculate, but input, please.
Number one, maybe perhaps this might be someone in Hollywood looking around for story ideas?
I've heard Hollywood pays big bucks for story ideas.
Number two, maybe perhaps I should copyright such stories, or am I protected by the copyright here, or by proof of having been the first to write something?
Just in case a story idea is sold, and they need to know where to send a check.
Speculations, if anybody's got any; I'd appreciate it.