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Ebaum gets e-bombed

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:54 am
by hascoolnickname
I think we all know of Eric Baumen's site and the profit he brings in from stealing content from other sites and taking the credit for it. Well he recently stole and image from a YTMND and thought that it would go unnoticed. It did not however, and an announcement was made to make an attack on the ebaumsworld forums. A whole bunch of people against this incident registered to attack on the said date and soon Eric Baumen closed his forums.

What are people's thoughts on this? Do you think he got what he deserved? Do you think it was unjust? Discuss.

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:56 am
by Riot
Deserved. GG.

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:39 pm
by sam
a win for the internet

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:59 pm
by Merk
Finally!

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:04 pm
by Potter
ebaum:1 biggillion things of stolen content.

intarweb:3,174,235342[4342432

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:44 pm
by malictus
Well, I have to admit that my first thought when reading this was --- how many people here have never stolen content off the internet??

YTMND itself is filled with people stealing images, music, etc. from various places, isn't it?

I guess you could argue though, that most of us don't really PROFIT from this kind of thing like he does...

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:13 pm
by sam
1: YTMND is not plastered in ads

2: Yes, people do steal images but usually they put it on their own hosting.

3: They also don't alter the image

4: They also don't replace watermarks with their own site watermark

PS: 3 & 4 are illegal under DMCA when an image is watermarked

Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:08 pm
by hascoolnickname
Plus they cost SA a lot of money through illegal connections blah blah ebaumsworldsucks.com

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:24 am
by bunnydreams
I wouldnt mind him hosting content, but putting a logo on something thats not yours is stealing.

He deserved it.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:57 am
by God Of Rock
Never underestimate the power of /b/ tards.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:13 pm
by hascoolnickname
Image

I heard this is going to be the new banner

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:39 pm
by Green Tea
hascoolnickname wrote:Plus they cost SA a lot of money through illegal connections blah blah ebaumsworldsucks.com
That is a great site, and a great video to boot.

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:00 pm
by XeroCi
We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincable

And with the power of conviction
There is no sacrifice
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincable!

YTMND Battle Song.

Rah!

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:12 am
by Fagulous
I hate Ebalums, stupid pop ups break through all my blockers. There's some anti-Ebalums song on Newgrounds too. I'm surprised they didn't try to team up against it.

All in all I think it's pretty funny, they should do it again.

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 7:10 pm
by hascoolnickname