Open Letter About AnotherSky.Net Fanfiction Piracy

Open Letter About AnotherSky.Net Fanfiction Piracy is an open letter to Star Wars fandom in the form of a flyer that was taken to Eclecticon 2002 as a flyer by fanzine publisher Kathy Agel. 
It is unclear whether the flyer was written by Kathy Agel or merely handed out by Kathy at the convention. After the event, the flyer was then emailed to various mailing lists and also posted to Jedi Council Forums.reference link.
The flyer (reprinted below) alerted Star Wars fanzine contributors that the owners of a Star Wars fanzine website AnotherSky.Net were offering to email "fan to fan" scanned copies of Star Wars fanfiction that had appeared in out of print fanzines. AnotherSky.Net had listed all the zines that the editors owned and included the tables of contents so that fellow fans could request a specific story. The site owners also posted stories from their own published fanzine Another Sky. 
The open letter/flyer asked fans to contact the website's Internet Service Provider (ISP) to shut down the website for copyright infringement.
The AnotherSky.net website owners had raised the fic sharing concept one year earlier on the Zine Zone mailing list but had encountered stiff resistance. They then went ahead with the project, and this resulted in the Open Letter.
==The Flyer==
==Reactions==
At the time the flyer was written, fanfiction had been online for less than seven years. Public and openly accessible fanfic archives for even fewer years. Most fans communicated via members only mailing lists and the use of public blogging platforms such as Livejournal to post fanfiction had not yet become widespread. 
Small quantities of fanzine fanfiction had appeared online and when they did, it was usually with author permission and only after the story had [[Time Out (glossary term)
timed out]] or the zine had gone out of print. The fic finder communities of the mid-2000s where fans could request deleted fanfiction were beyond fandom's imagining. 
In short, what AnotherSky.Net was attempting had no fannish framework except for the one found in print fandom, namely piracy. And that is how most zine fans saw the issue even though the scanned pages were being emailed for free.
However, some of the discussion surrounding the website was more nuanced and the arguments raised against it are very much similar to many of the current debates on sharing fanfic and fan art. Quotes are from the Jedi Council Forums, one of the few publicly accessible places where the open letter was discussed.reference link.
Creative Control
Fandom's Pre-Internet Expectations
Unwanted TPTB Attention
Only a few fans acknowledged some room for disagreement on the topic:
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And what did AnotherSky.net Have To Say?
From their website:
From their forum
==Outcome==
In the end, nothing much changed. In spite of near universal disapproval and repeated complaints to the Anothersky.net's ISP, the website and the owners continued to list out-of-print fanzine fic and offered it via email to fellow fans. As of 2013, the website is still online.
==References==
Category:Star Wars Open Letters
Category:2002 Open Letters
Category:Star Wars Meta
Category:2002 Meta
Category:Meta in Print