This actually reminds me of a situation that happened to me that I'd forgotten.
I started to get a few more downloads than I was expecting on one of my podfics, and I figured out that they were coming from filestube.com. Turns out that the name of my podfic (I mean, the title of the story the author had written) was the same as the name of an album that people were searching for, so I'm pretty sure what was happening is that people were searching for the album, finding a link to an mp3 file with that name, and downloading it. So I imagine they *did* listen to the beginning and were quite surprised!
It made me uncomfortable briefly, but I just ended up renaming the file to put PODFIC right there in the name, and even though people still sometimes DL it from there and probably still get a shock when they listen, I figure that they'll figure out pretty fast that it's not what they want, and either turn it off or continue listening by choice. And as long as they're listening by choice, I don't mind if they found it by accident or what.
It helps, though, that the podfic in question isn't NC-17. I think readers always feel more vulnerable about their NC-17 work getting out. Even though that's sometimes some of your best work that you're most proud of, it's also the stuff that lots of people outside fandom wouldn't understand and would be very unpleasantly judgmental of if they knew.
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I started to get a few more downloads than I was expecting on one of my podfics, and I figured out that they were coming from filestube.com. Turns out that the name of my podfic (I mean, the title of the story the author had written) was the same as the name of an album that people were searching for, so I'm pretty sure what was happening is that people were searching for the album, finding a link to an mp3 file with that name, and downloading it. So I imagine they *did* listen to the beginning and were quite surprised!
It made me uncomfortable briefly, but I just ended up renaming the file to put PODFIC right there in the name, and even though people still sometimes DL it from there and probably still get a shock when they listen, I figure that they'll figure out pretty fast that it's not what they want, and either turn it off or continue listening by choice. And as long as they're listening by choice, I don't mind if they found it by accident or what.
It helps, though, that the podfic in question isn't NC-17. I think readers always feel more vulnerable about their NC-17 work getting out. Even though that's sometimes some of your best work that you're most proud of, it's also the stuff that lots of people outside fandom wouldn't understand and would be very unpleasantly judgmental of if they knew.