Tuesday, February 3, 2009

The Web Reacts...

It's been an interesting 4 days since we were all let go by ZVUE. Here are some of the reactions we've seen around the web, in the press, and on some of our favorite sites:


While not all the reactions have been exactly "sympathetic", it's really great to see people get involved and voice their opinions about what's happened. We especially want to thank all of our anonymous friends at 4Chan, Something Awful, Fark, and Newgrounds for all the support and for getting the word out!
Posted by Jay at 10:55 AM

19 comments:

  2. "While not all the reactions have been exactly 'sympathetic' ..."

    To be exact, practically none of the reactions have been even slightly sympathetic. But I will give you this - you guys did do something that will brighten a lot of days. Maybe.

    I was still wondering how we knew that the "eBaum" on this site was the eBaum from eBaum's world, and not just some prankster who borrowed his identity, so I did a whois search at networksolutions.com. This lead me to the Tucows whois search page, where I found that your domain was, indeed, registered to an Eric Baumann in Rochester who had, seemingly most unwisely, decided to leave his home phone number and address in the public part of his registration information.

    Not too bright, Eric, since that is information that you can ask to have withheld, a choice most sensible domain owners will make. You don't even appear to have used a PO box. While I absolutely would not endorse or defend a decision on somebody's part to pay a visit to your home and engage in any sort of illegal activity, there is nothing illegal whatsoever about sending a process server to somebody's home to serve a summons. Especially when you have made a career out of violating well established intellectual property law, willfully and wantonly.

    Some have asked where the karma is when your severage package runs in the millions of dollars, but if you lose those millions of dollars in court settlements and costs and don't have the website any more - I think they'll be able to laugh at you in a more satisfying way. As I suggested last night, since you've claimed copyright over a copyrighted work owned by a company with deep pockets and its own staff of lawyers (Viacom), contacting Viacom might be a good first step for people to make. En masse.

    After that very large corporation and maybe a few others have bled you successfully - because there's no getting past the fact that copyright infringing material was uploaded from the eBaum account - and you can no longer afford a team of lawyers, your less affluent victims can come in, as long as they don't miss the statute of limitations for civil actions. I'd advise them to move quickly on that.

    Here's wishing you a long, miserable pauperdom. From one Jew to another - which part of "thou shalt not steal" were you unclear on?
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  3. BTW, you sharing the link to that G4TV post - cool. Especially with that video being there. Loved watching your guy get tripped up at 3:31.

    "Due diligence" doesn't include contacting the owner of a video whose watermark is clearly visible on the video? Right.
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  4. Great investigative work Dunphy. You uncovered our top secret HQ / office address. One of the only other ways to find it is by using what we call a PHONE BOOK where we are listed.

    If you're legal advice / speculation is anywhere near as good as your private eye skills, we better listen to you real good :)
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  7. Jay, that's really the best you can do? Say "oh, yeah, well we've been pointing the process servers in the way of our own door for years - so there". That really just makes you and your friends sound even more stupid than they did before. Even the halfwit who sells fake gold chains on the subway knows to make his trail hard to follow. So you guys aren't just crooks, you're incompetent crooks.

    There is nothing speculative in a citing of the Berne Convention, to which the US is a signatory nation. Copyright law has been well established in the United States since Colonial times, and has never been at all ambiguous in cases like the one with Viacom. Not in over 200 years.

    The Berne Convention had the desirable effect, once law in this country was brought into accordance with it, of giving immediate copyrights to all content creators, whether they had formally applied for copyright protection of their work or not. Which means that the people whose work you plagiarised don't just have good reason to hate you, they have grounds for legal action.

    You guys have been getting away with murder, figuratively speaking, because legal representation costs a lot of money, and you've had more of that to throw around than have the vast majority of your victims. Justice shouldn't be for sale in this country, but in effect, it often is. But do you really think that you can outspend Viacom?

    Seriously?

    As for the smaller, less wealthy parties ripped off by eBaumsWorld, I would recommend that they look into filing something called a "class action suit", a concept designed to deal with exactly this sort of situation, in which a relatively wealthy offender runs roughshod over the rights of a large number of less wealthy victims. What they can do is merge all of their complaints into one big complaint, one big enough to be of real interest to a real law firm, leveling the playing field more than a little.

    By the way, did I mention that two of my brothers are licensed attorneys? I'm not speculating at all.
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  8. While I'm here, I might as well help you with your English, Jay. You write

    "If you're legal advice / speculation is anywhere near as good as your private eye skills, we better listen to you real good :)"

    "You're" is a contraction for "you are"; the word you wanted to use was the possessive "your". Good is an adjective, so it can't modify "listen", which is a verb, even in colloquial usage. Try using "well", which is an adverb, instead. Again, "real" is an adjective, and so it doesn't really work in the role you've picked for it; "really" would be a better choice. Let us see what we have now.

    "If your legal advice / speculation is anywhere near as good as your private eye skills, we better listen to you really well"

    The sentence still needs repair, but at least now you won't sound completely uneducated. If you need any more help with basic skills, like counting or tying your shoes, drop me a message and I'll see if I can get a social worker out to help you.
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  10. LOL, thanks for the lessons Dunphy! BTW, do some more investigative work and dig up any copyright action that has ever been taken against EBW or Eric in the past 11 years of operation. If you find anything, let us know :)
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  12. Jesus Christ Dunphy shut your fucking trap. If you've got such a fucking lawsuit then screw suing ebaums, go after Youtube. hell i should sue you for making me read all those words that you know you used a thesaurus for.
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  13. HA HA joseph dunphy doesn't even have a job. quit your bitching and get a job. I can't remember his name but i read some homo on here a while back who said he has two gay lawyer brothers, he said they were licensed attorneys(didn't know there was such a thing as unlicensed attorneys so thanks for pointing that out.) I love how people with no jobs, living in the shadow of their more successful brothers get on here and talk shit about somebodys spelling or punctuation. fuck it, i bet you correct people when they text you. no wonder you're probably single. And considering how much you talk about laws(even though none of that made even the closest amount of sense) you aren't even a lawyer, your a math tutor. Stick with what you know and if you have questions ask a lawyer, shouldn't be hard to find one, just ask the two children that your mother is proud of.
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  14. Joseph Dunphy is my hero. keep it up, bro.

    also, an excerpt from that lovely G4TV article:

    "While it's always sad when someone loses his or her job, it's hard not to see this firing as a bit of poetic justice. Ebaum's World has long had a reputation as a site that makes money by stealing other people's content. It seems to me that turnabout is fairplay.

    I talked to television's Kevin Pereira about this matter and Kper said, "I wonder if he's gonna steal content from his original site to put on his new site. He'll have to use a giant watermark to cover all the other watermarks on his videos.""

    LMAO
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  15. "Stick with what you know and if you have questions ask a lawyer, shouldn't be hard to find one"

    Err...

    That's point.

    Idiot. He knows what he's talking about. You clearly don't.

    Joseph Dunphy, I love you deeply. I'm rather impressed by the way that the gaping void between the grasp of the English language that your posts convey, compared to the tawdry mis-spelt responses of someone whose only defence is to call you stupid and speculate about facts that they don't know, really helps to make your point.
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  16. Joseph Dunphy you need to make a ytmnd.

    www.ytmnd.com
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  18. How can "ebaumsworld.com sucks, ebaum.tv rules" when they are both based off of making profit for stolen material? They both suck. That being said, I'll take the longer established, functional website, ebaumsworld.com over this place any day.
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  19. I appreciate all the countless hours of hard work that you and the rest of the staff are putting forth to make eBaums.tv even better than EBW. Please keep in mind that when working hard like you all are, that it's very important to take a break every now and then to reward yourselves.(Maybe some pizza and some fruity beer are in order)*Swift chuckles @ Eric*
    I cant wait to get back on digg to push more blogs. EBAUM.TV ROCKS....fshtkr1 aka Swifttallon
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