Old forum member Trapezoid makes SA's frontpage

[DGMacphee]

With this:

http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/

Awful Link of the Day

ebaumsworldsucks.com (thanks Altf4) - For a long time ebaumsworld.com has been stealing content and rebranding it from Something Awful and many other sites on the Internet. Everyone is used to having their content moved around on the net, but Eric Bauman obscures any references to the creator in favor of slapping his branding everywhere. And he's gotten rich doing it. Bauman claims to take down any content reported as stolen but the claim is a lie. When Lowtax encouraged people to post on ebaum's forums asking them to take the stolen SA content down Eric Bauman (or his dad) decided to include a redirect on his site that would strain our forum servers.

In response to all this silly Internet drama our forum users Altf4 and Trapezoid created this fantastic song and Flash movie. It's a real call-to-arms! If for some reason the link goes down you can view it at New Grounds. I'm sure Tom Fulp and his userbase have plenty of experience with their content being stolen by Bauman.

If you dig the catchy tune used in the video you can find out more about the folks responsible by clicking on or around this link.

And the response: http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php03807

[Privateer Puddin']

<3 trap

[Squinky]

Frigging great!

[Ghormak]

Yep, I love the song. But oh my, how stupid that thread you linked to is, DG. Oh my! OH MY!!

I thought the major grief was that SA people had kindly asked ebaumsworld to take down content coming from SA (which ebaumsworld clearly state they will if asked), but they refused to, and instead added a redirect on their main site that pointed to SomethingAwful and used up lots of their bandwith.

Which is a very silly thing to do.

[Pet Terry]

Yes, I was about to post about this too. Excellent animation, excellent song, excellent idea!

"A very deeply flawed man, they called him Eric Bauman."

[Andail]

I don't care very much about who steals what in an internet branch which is just about wasting people's time.

But man, do I love Trap and his choonz. I wish he could come back! Or just write much more songs! Or both!

[HillBilly]

But oh my, how stupid that thread you linked to is, DG. Oh my! OH MY!!

I love this quote to death:

You don't need permission to post somebody else's content on your website. The entire Internet is public domain.

[veryweirdguy]

He also made the front page of Weebl's Stuff, I was actually about to come on & post the very same topic with that revelation.

[Gregjazz]

Recognized his voice/musical style immediately. That's a great song!

[DGMacphee]

But oh my, how stupid that thread you linked to is, DG. Oh my! OH MY!!

I love this quote to death:

You don't need permission to post somebody else's content on your website. The entire Internet is public domain.

Yeah, I loved that quote too.

Speaking of which, CJ no longer owns the rights to AGS. We do. That'll teach you, CJ, for putting something on the intrawebs. Lookin' pretty stupid now, aren't ya!

[edmundito]

Please download my new program called AGS Forums. I created it to make adventure games (the AGS part), and also the main feature is a forum (the Forums part)!

For all your games needs.

[PsychicHeart]

I'm sorry, but who the hell is Eric Bauman? And what on God's green earth is eBaum?
And what did he do? Apparently he stole images or something....
someone please fill me in!!

[Chicky]

cant you just listen to the damn song on the link posted? The whole point of that flash is to inform people of what's going on.

[PsychicHeart]

well, i got the basic drift,
Eric Ebaum stole... gimme a sec... bandwith??
And put a watermark on... something..... aw screw it.

[Lucky]

If it was any site other than SA that's getting bleeped, I'd probably feel remorse. But now, I can only smile.