Why would you lock the fic they still have up? The point of locking your fic is so that random-bot-from-teh-intarwebs can't scrape it and take it back to the infringing site (note that it doesn't mean they can't do it at all, just that they need to have an account to do it, and if AO3 can figure out what the account is, they can block/disable that account).
If they already have the fic ... they have no need to redownload it, they've already got it, and there isn't any point in locking it. I wouldn't bother locking that fic or indeed any of the fic they've already posted (since there's a good chance they've kept copies of the files even if they've taken them down). If you're going to lock any fic, it would logically need to be the fic they haven't gotten yet.
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Date: 2015-04-15 02:09 am (UTC)If they already have the fic ... they have no need to redownload it, they've already got it, and there isn't any point in locking it. I wouldn't bother locking that fic or indeed any of the fic they've already posted (since there's a good chance they've kept copies of the files even if they've taken them down). If you're going to lock any fic, it would logically need to be the fic they haven't gotten yet.