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* Any fanwork in a fandom under a [[Fanwork Ban]] usually becomes this. As most sites are pulled for fear of invoking legal wrath, some fanworks are made available through shady underground communities.
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388850/ Computer Boy], an Australian parody of [[The Matrix]]. No DVD release and only [http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/3544 available] as a low-resolution Quicktime download, due to (apparent) legal issues with a scene filmed inside a McDonald's store.
* It has been known for fanfic authors who turn pro to pull their fanfic from the internet, either because they consider it [[Old Shame]], because their publishers don't approve, or because they're strip-mining their fic for ideas for original works and don't want people to make comparisons. The most emblematic cases are Cassandra Clare and her ''[[The Draco Trilogy|Draco Trilogy]]'', and E. L. James with "''Masters of the Universe''", the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fanfic that eventually became ''[[Fifty Shades of Grey]]''.
** It's not just ones from authors that turn pro. Any fanfic can just disappear from the internet due to some reason from the fanfic author. Deleting all their content after [[Rage Quit]]ting a fandom isn't an unusual occurrence. Sure, [[Sturgeon's Law|most of those fics aren't worth reading]], but there are some good ones that disappear too.
** Sometimes, authors tired of their fics being plagiarized or reuploaded without permission pull them from theirs accounts, paradoxically making their plagiarists and reuploaders the only way to read said fics again. One such particular case was ''Overgrowth'' a very popular ''[[Undertale]]'' fanfic that codified the [[Alternate Universe|"Flowerfell" AU]], that was retired from the author's [[Archive of Our Own|AO3 account]] due to being extensively plagiarized (an author-approved podcast reading of the fic still survives in the site, through).
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** Some of them and others on racewing's site can be found [http://wayback.archive.org/web/*http://www.racewing.net/LRU/files/* here]
* The ''[[Ranma ½]]/[[Sailor Moon]]'' [[Crossover]] fic ''Relatively Absent'', by Mark "Togashi Gaijin" Shurtleff: an inventive and very well-written example ''and'' subversion of the classic [[Fuku Fic]] concept. Unfortunately, Shurtleff left the fanfiction scene in 2009 and succeeded in very thoroughly purging this and his other fics from the Net (even from the [[Wayback Machine]]). Almost a decade later he still monitors the web for reappearances of his work and sends politely-worded requests to take it down whenever he finds it. However, while no websites host his stories any more, there are still archives being traded from fan to fan; if you can find [[User:Looney Toons|someone]] who has them, you can still read his [[Dead Fic|sadly incomplete]] works.
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