Ramblings of a Crowe

Internet WAR: E b a u m vs just about everybody (it's gettin bloody)

Well, those of us who hang out at places like SA, Fark, 4chan, etc. are probably no stranger to internet scum e b a u m s world dot com (not a link to the site, since they make money when you visit there). They're the people who like to steal content from other websites and make money off of it--while slapping their logo on the front and NOT crediting the orginal makers of the content.

There's been an ongoing war between SA (something awful dot com) and EW for quite sometime. A few months ago, the proverbial flag was tossed to the ground when EB encoded a malicious script into their pages that sucked the bandwith of SA everytime someone loaded a page on their site. Needless to say, the Goons were not happy.

Now it's YTMND that's had enough. Combining forces with people from all different forums (from SA to 4chan to jesus only knows where else) they organized an attack on EW of monumental proportions--taking things too far as usual to boot. Read a more detailed discription over at Fandom_wank.

"Vandalizm" and "death" threats later, the head scum bag starts threatening FBI Cyber Terrorism and lawsuits. A cease and desist order was sent, complete with netspeak (lol). No, really, LOL has apparently become legaleeze. Perhaps my law student sister can shed some light on the subject. Are judges saying "Order in the court (LOL)" these days, sis? Not only that, super jackoff webmaster theif man is threatening the parody site above to shut its doors before he gets mad. Oh yeah, he also told them it didn't matter since he would own the domain in 72 hours anyway...WTF? Bipolar much?

I find this all extremely funny. But I can understand the anger of the creators that have their stuff stolen by this place. All they want is a little credit for the work they've done--and it's not that hard to do. Not only that, the guy makes money off of this stuff (though ads and whatnot), so technically, their work is paying his bills and they don't get anything out of it. What a douchebag.

Posted by Zoso at January 13, 2006 07:10 PM