Some of you I'm sure know about the site ebaumsworld.com Lots of 'funny' videos and images and such.Harmless? Hell no. The guy who runs it steals almost all his content.He removes watermarks from images and claims credit for them.He decompiles flash animations and removes any credit to the original creator.And he profits from this. And the people who actually MADE the things on his site get nothing. This is plaguerism, pure and simple, and this guy is profiting by doing something illegal. Unfortunately, laws just aren't as effective on the Internet.Emails to get your stolen work removed- or to get credit- are completely ignored. Try posting about it on his forums- your topic will be deleted and your account banned.Recently, people over at the SomethingAwful.com forums were trying once again to contact his ISP and such, and posting on the forums to get things copyrighted to SomethingAwful removed from eBaums, as they were of course used there without permission.And what did eBaum do? He added a bit of malicious code to his website- one that, whenever his site loaded, it tried loading things off of SomethingAwful's servers. This increases SA's bandwidth and costs money to the one who runs it, Lowtax.Thankfully our coders are far more resourceful and they fended off the attack. But still, wtf. We're seeing if there's any way to pursue legal action, but as it wasn't anything as obvious as a virus it's tricky.This is absolutely DISGUSTING that people are having their work stolen by this piece of sh*t so he can rake in money from advertising revenue.So spread the word that ebaumsworld is a horrible website run by a greedy, lying thief. >=(
Luckily I don't go to Ebaums.... Or Something Awful.... But it's good stuff to know, I guess.
Then how come when I went there it was..... Something Awful? *can't really remember*
