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I got an e-mail flash today notifying me of the complete liquidation of all personal property and intangible assets of ZVUE Corporation to include, "Dorks, LLC" and eBaums World websites. This will take place on Friday, I think. Had anybody else heard about this? I didn't see anything on his website. Here's the link to the auction webcast : http://www.bidspotter.com/forms/event.php?event=8891
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:13 |
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| # ? Feb 09, 2010 15:17 |
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I don't get the title
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:14 |
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gently caress Eric. If you don't know yet, the kid got rich by selling ad space on his collection of other people's work, and would frequently strip watermarks from pictures and videos and replace them with his own. A few years ago he stole drawings from somethingawful, replaced the watermark, then put malicious code directed towards SA into his homepage.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:15 |
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I wonder if the domain can be bought, I would love it if Alt-F4 and Trapezoid would repost that old animation directly on ebaumsworld.com. Seems like a worthy end.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:16 |
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935 posted:gently caress Eric. If you don't know yet, the kid got rich by selling ad space on his collection of other people's work, and would frequently strip watermarks from pictures and videos and replace them with his own.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:20 |
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I didn't think it was "his" anymore, it was sold in 08. Thanks for the update.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:21 |
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One of my friends worked for eBaums world, he had a party at his house once which I went to. He invited everyone from work including Eric himself. I would have met him if I had stayed longer, but I had to leave early. I don't know what I would have said to him if I met him, probably something like "Hi, I'm an SA goon so I guess I'm supposed to hate you, but you employ my friend so you're alright"
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:24 |
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That auction's a bargain. Not only do you get the ebaumsworld.com domain which gets millions of hits a month, you also get ownership of all that content the company owns which brings people to the si... oh 
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:25 |
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Are auction contents usually that vague?
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:27 |
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Spacefrog posted:And he sold ebaum's world last year for 15 million dollars, so he's still walking away from this wealthy. This makes me angry. So many stupid sites made so much money during that whole lovely time of the internet.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:32 |
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AxeManiac
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Spacefrog posted:And he sold ebaum's world last year for 15 million dollars, so he's still walking away from this wealthy. He didn't get most of it: a lot of the $15 mil was in Zvue stock, a company who's primary business model was selling low quality, pre-loaded MP3 players at Wal-Mart. Eric Baum got fired from his own website by the Zvue people for not making traffic goals/revenue promises, and lost the property in the process. Good riddance, Ebaums. A drat shame that there's now a million other web properties trying to copy exactly what you did three or four years ago.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:37 |
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this just in, ytmnd.com freaks the gently caress out
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:39 |
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I hated that place for what it did, but I loved it when we invaded it. I seem to remember doing it more than once I think. Christ those few days were hilarious.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:40 |
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Abey Sinclair posted:He didn't get most of it: a lot of the $15 mil was in Zvue stock, a company who's primary business model was selling low quality, pre-loaded MP3 players at Wal-Mart. Eric Baum got fired from his own website by the Zvue people for not making traffic goals/revenue promises, and lost the property in the process. ebaum continues his reign of poo poo at http://ebaumnation.com/
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:42 |
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But who will 4chan blame for their poor behavior now?
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:45 |
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Sweet, we can buy back all our Photoshops
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 01:54 |
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ZeeBoi posted:ebaum continues his reign of poo poo at http://ebaumnation.com/ He's downsized.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:00 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:02 |
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Abey Sinclair posted:He didn't get most of it: a lot of the $15 mil was in Zvue stock, a company who's primary business model was selling low quality, pre-loaded MP3 players at Wal-Mart. Eric Baum got fired from his own website by the Zvue people for not making traffic goals/revenue promises, and lost the property in the process. This makes sense, wasn't the company pretty much run by his father before he sold it? EDIT: According to this Zvue press release, he sold the site for $10 million in cash and $2.5 million in stock, with another $2.5 million if he met certain revenue targets. BulletRiddled fucked around with this message at Nov 19, 2009 around 02:11 |
| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:04 |
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ZeeBoi posted:ebaum continues his reign of poo poo at http://ebaumnation.com/ The second "hottest girl of the day" down on the page looks like a Pamela Anderson Oompa Loompa.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:05 |
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AxeManiac posted:This makes me angry. So many stupid sites made so much money during that whole lovely time of the internet. And yet Lowtax isn't sitting on a solid gold toilet. Frankly, far from a tool to share knowledge and experience and improve mankind, I find this whole internet thing a great indicator of how stupid most people are. (cf youtube comments)
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:27 |
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:31 |
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 And good riddance, too.Now if only 4chan and Encyclopedia Dramatica would go the same way, the Internet would be a much better place. Impossible, you say? Well, I can still dream. 
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:32 |
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vs Dinosaurs posted:The second "hottest girl of the day" down on the page looks like a Pamela Anderson Oompa Loompa. eBaums hot girl of day: well troll myspace for pictures of under age girls so you don't have to.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:32 |
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I just found some somethingawful.com watermarked photoshops on the ebaumnation.com forums. It's like they aren't even trying to hide the theft anymore.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:34 |
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juliuspringle posted:I just found some somethingawful.com watermarked photoshops on the ebaumnation.com forums. It's like they aren't even trying to hide the theft anymore. that should tell you no one really cares
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:39 |
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Infuriating countless neckbeards and getting paid $10M for my troubles? Eric Bauman, my personal hero.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:45 |
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eBaum vs Something Awful LLC was the only case Leonard J. Crabs ever lost.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:49 |
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Woolie Wool posted:
What's wrong with ED? Link us to your page!
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:49 |
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JFC posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BijChf8ROJU Man, whatever happened to Trapezoid that guy was fuckin' awesome.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:51 |
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STOP MAKING SENSE posted:Man, whatever happened to Trapezoid that guy was fuckin' awesome. He still posts on his LiveJournal from time to time, and posts stuff on Evil Trail Mix. Doesn't seem to have much time for people he knew when he was just some kid, though.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 02:58 |
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STOP MAKING SENSE posted:Man, whatever happened to Trapezoid that guy was fuckin' awesome. Lemon Demon must have hit the big time 
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:03 |
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Studio posted:Lemon Demon must have hit the big time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBK31tC5QM This should have done it for him.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:11 |
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Abey Sinclair posted:Good riddance, Ebaums. A drat shame that there's now a million other web properties trying to copy exactly what you did three or four years ago.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:12 |
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Korak posted:eBaum vs Something Awful LLC was the only case Leonard J. Crabs ever lost. Hahahahah Thats awesome. Good ol Leonard. I never knew how I felt about that site, but I know I am happy on the way it is ending out.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:14 |
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I remember the invasions. Jolly good fun. I guess people are getting their kicks and bad comments over to youtube now.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:17 |
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He made 15mill for that drat site? God drat! Well, if it makes anyone feel any better he'll be banging some hot piece of rear end and driving a sweet rear end car and have a nice loving home for the rest of his life. Also, if he invests even one third of that portion he'll be bale to live like that for the rest of his life. Banging hot rear end, driving nice cars, and living in a bitching house. All built on using/stealing other people's works and posting it onto a website... What Dumbass company would pay 15mill for that anyways? No wonder the financial meltdown happened. P.S. What kind of malicious code did he put into his site that would effect SA?
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:22 |
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spog posted:And yet Lowtax isn't sitting on a solid gold toilet. ...just a $1000 Aeron chair.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:23 |
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Agrajag posted:
If I remember correctly, he had code on there that would redirect to SA, hence wasting SA's bandwidth. BUT.. in doing so it would transfer's people cookies for ebaum's world to SA. So the admins got the passwords and usernames of everyone on that site.
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| # ? Nov 19, 2009 03:26 |
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Agrajag posted:
Just thinking about the past 8 years give me a headache and mild nausea. Let's promise to never let it happen again.
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