I’ve been quite the hater of eBaum’s World for a long time, even before I knew about its rampant stealing and attacking of SA. It’s simply the stupidest shit on the Internet, put in one place where some guy watermarks it and gives it horrible captions like “wow guys check out this loser jumping and falling!!!!!”
Anyway Trapezoid of Animutation/Potter Puppet Pals/Lemon Demon/you name it made a song about it and it was animated by AltF4. Checkidowt and educate yourself!
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1715618
The site provides a certain kind of service, despite being underhanded and diabolical. And amazingly enough, it can make money by being a hole for crap content – which I find kind of amazing, since I personally hate the deliberate pandering to “let’s laugh at stupid people” tastes. (it’s like one of those vices that you have to catch yourself from indulging in) What should be done to alleviate complaint is not to destroy the site directly, but to encourage competitors that do it all and better, and that *respect more rights* in the process.
you don’t understand.
HE STEALS CONTENT. IT’S PLAGIARISM OF THE WORST CALIBER.
Oh, but I do understand that. It’s not “plagiarism of the worst caliber,” because people like you and me do similar things all the time, on a smaller scale. There are tons of little memes, avatars, pictures brought up from a google search, small things like that, where nobody knows where they came from. So we are in the wrong almost as much as he is, but we can claim ignorance. On the other hand, there are plenty of things that he’s taken that you CAN attribute credit to. So I agree that in a moral sense Ebaum’s World is pretty reprehensible. But in general, people don’t get prosecuted from such minor infractions, or if they are the punishment tends to be light. That’s why I say that shutting the place down is not a solution.
and you’re saying the solution is for other websites to make funnier stuff that he’ll just steal anyways? A DURRRRRRRR
No. You’re being blinded by a single-minded obsession with “EBAUM STEALS.”
Let’s say Ebaum is the Yahoo! of humor portals, circa 1998. The comparison works, because in both cases all the content is indexed by hand. Now imagine the Google of humor portals. Ebaum won’t be very important then, will he? Oh, he’ll still be around, but he’ll have to shape up. And the whole watermarking and case-by-case evaluation-of-legal-strength scheme will become fairly implausible. Basically, the whole business model is shot. And that, in turn, means this whole argument is silly and internet people take themselves too seriously.
okay i get it you’re saying someone should steal on a higher, more automated level.
There’s a difference between inadvetently blurring where something came from and directly taking credit AND money for finding it. Ebaum puts his name on everything on his site.
also he put malicious code onto every page of his website to DDoS another anonymous website
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/276616
Uh, yeah, I know. It’s linked from the link I posted.