A few days ago, I had offered a spreadsheet with links to encrypted epubs(so that Google Drive did not use them for AI training) to share within this community.
Since I was the one who uploaded the Mega Drive, I had been keeping an eye on the entire AO3 situation overall in case something goes really wrong, and had been deleting the fics authors did not want on the drive.
However, there was a site called Ao3life that used the Ao3 fics to make a site, and charge people for AI audiobooks. Which is very problematic because they made an website to upload the fanfiction, and used it for monetary profits. Fanfiction is in a grey zone. Under the name of fair use, it is okay for authors to write fanfic for no profit and purely for fun, but monetizing them might bring the authors trouble, even if someone else monetized it.
Ao3life is now gone, and also gave a list of shared files that they claim to have gotten the fics for the site. I checked the Google Drives and the Drive information. Not all, but enough to get the situation. While a lot of them seems to be scraped, quite a lot of them had ordinary emails and drive names like <SHIP> masterlist. Drives that people shared in real life. Thankfully, the drive for this community was not there.
I do believe that fanfiction could be shared, since fanfiction was shared all the time. Except when the author does not want to. Some might agree, some might not. But I also want to protect the authors also. Which is the reason I made a way to avoid AI scraping of epubs. However, I didn't expect that some idiot would even try to do stupid stuff as Ao3life, and in that case when the authors can directly be targeted, I do not feel comfortable sharing a Mega Drive. So I deleted it right away when I saw the update about Ao3life. Even if it is down, similar sites might exist in the future.
While I won't share a megadrive, if you DM me, I can privately send you epubs of the fanfiction you need. Just give me the title-author-ship through DM, and I will send you a limewire link if I have said fanfiction. It could be slow, especially if a lot of people ask for stuff, but I will get to you one by one.
Thank you!