The Rise of Ebaum's World - GoFuckYourself.com

GTS Mark · 09-28-2006, 09:17 PM

"Viral media is all the rage these days, and Bauman runs one of the few viral sites actually making money. Without spending a penny on direct advertising, he's turned the high school hobby he ran out of his bedroom into one of the Internet's top-ranked humor sites, getting 1.2 million hits a day. There's a television pilot in the can, a book deal in negotiation, and a potential pact to bring eBaum content to cell phones. Annual ad revenue has doubled over the past year to $10 million, and the only overhead is bandwidth and salaries: Bauman is becoming a rich man. He has 30 employees who handle the coding, marketing, financial affairs, and assorted office details. He drives a shiny black Porsche Carrera. Besides gobbling up real estate around town and gas wells in Kentucky, he sponsors heavyweight boxing champ Hasim "the Rock" Rahman."

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ebaum.html

Not bad for a 26 year old kid

DH

xclusive · 09-28-2006, 09:18 PM

It's a great site. Good to see him doing well for himself.

WWC · 09-28-2006, 09:19 PM

interesting site.... i like that site...crazy stuff!

georgeyw · 09-28-2006, 09:20 PM

Interesting, never realised how much that site was/is making.

At the same time isn't he guilty of content theft, re watermarking images/vids etc etc??

GTS Mark · 09-28-2006, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by georgeyw

At the same time isn't he guilty of content theft, re watermarking images/vids etc etc??

Read the article it addresses that

DH

Chris · 09-28-2006, 09:22 PM

all this from stealing content

fuck him.

biftek · 09-28-2006, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by georgeyw

At the same time isn't he guilty of content theft, re watermarking images/vids etc etc??

from all that i have read around the net , its seems as if he is guilty of those offences

xxxice · 09-28-2006, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST

Read the article it addresses that

DH

From Wired
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ebaum.html

Why the fuss? Detractors say Bauman built his empire on stolen goods ? snatching obscure media from around the Web, erasing or denying credits, slapping on the eBaum watermark, then selling millions of dollars' worth of ads around the purloined content. "He steals work and makes all the money," says Kevin Flynn, an animator who is considering joining a class-action suit against eBaum's World. Flynn claims that Bauman ripped off his viral ditty "Peanut Butter Jelly Time."

Bauman is fighting back. "We try to let everyone know this is crap," he says. "We try to clear our name, but it's fucking impossible." He's a charming rogue, but it's not hard to understand why some folks are hoping he'll wake up one day with black marker smeared all over his own face. He walks to a nearby computer to play his all-time favorite eBaum video, "The Prank." It begins with a guy on a toilet who takes his freshly baked ammo and smears it on a sleeping friend. The friend retaliates, fluidly. Bauman, a lifelong prankster, mouths the dialog by heart. Asked where he got the video, he shrugs between laughs. "I don't know," he says. "I stole it from someplace."

Chris · 09-28-2006, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by biftek

from all that i have read around the net , its seems as if he is guilty of those offences

he is.

years ago he stole about 4 soundboards i made
slapped his shit on it
and called it good...

KRL · 09-28-2006, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Chris

all this from stealing content

fuck him.

Look at YouTube.

nekrom · 09-28-2006, 09:27 PM

Yup simply rip all your content from Fark & Somethingawful and you to can be a millionaire by 26.

-N

Chris · 09-28-2006, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by KRL

Look at YouTube.

I have gotten video's removed from youtube without a problem....

dare ya to try to get something removed from mr baums website

Daruma · 09-28-2006, 09:28 PM

and ebaums is very closely related to someone here on gfy - guess who

NoWhErE · 09-28-2006, 09:35 PM

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal."

Its sad to say, but alot of successful people got to the top by stealing. Crime does pay.

Chris · 09-28-2006, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by NoWhErE

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal."

Its sad to say, but alot of successful people got to the top by stealing. Crime does pay.

i think stealing IDEAS is safer than stealing CONTENT ;)

karmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

georgeyw · 09-28-2006, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST

Read the article it addresses that

DH

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Still, I can't believe he is still operating in such a thieving manner.

Solid Bob · 09-28-2006, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by georgeyw

link isn't loading here

Still, I can't believe he is still operating in such a thieving manner.

Why? Usually the guy coding a dancing banana singing "peanut butter jelly time" doesn't have the funds or the brains to sue. Even if they do something crazy like a class action lawsuit he can easily have the bulk of his funds filtered out of his personal name or the business he uses, go bankrupt, pay a few fines, and laugh at everyone for not doing the same thing he did.

DrunkEric · 09-28-2006, 10:52 PM

http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html - This explains alot

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"He steals work and makes all the money," says Kevin Flynn, an animator who is considering joining a class-action suit against eBaum's World. Flynn claims that Bauman ripped off his viral ditty "Peanut Butter Jelly Time."

Bauman is fighting back. "We try to let everyone know this is crap," he says. "We try to clear our name, but it's fucking impossible."

The funny thing is 2 major TV networks were able to track him down and ask permission to use it. Fox (when the did the parody on the family guy) and I cant remember the other one (it was for the show Ed). Both companies sent him a bunch of swag in return for letting them use it

Solid Bob · 09-28-2006, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by DrunkEric

http://ebaumsworldsucks.com/articles/flash.html - This explains alot

The funny thing is 2 major TV networks were able to track him down and ask permission to use it. Fox (when the did the parody on the family guy) and I cant remember the other one (it was for the show Ed). Both companies sent him a bunch of swag in return for letting them use it

I miss Ed.

Pipeline Q · 09-28-2006, 11:18 PM

his site innovated the idea of viral content. there are tons of sites that wouldnt exist had his not taken off.

DrunkEric · 09-28-2006, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Pipeline Q

his site innovated the idea of viral content. there are tons of sites that wouldnt exist had his not taken off.

His site inovated nothing other then content theft. You woud think in an industry that goes after everyone where they display their content without permission gets sued people would understand this.

porn blogger · 09-29-2006, 12:11 AM

i remember back when his site featured bulk email programs.

Bro Media - BANNED FOR LIFE · 09-29-2006, 12:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DrunkEric

His site inovated nothing other then content theft. You woud think in an industry that goes after everyone where they display their content without permission gets sued people would understand this.

exactly, Eric knows what hes talking about in this subject...

tttcash · 09-29-2006, 12:30 AM

Drinking, thanks for the link. I would not rule out Break.com (Use to be Big-Boys) These guys are huge.

09-28-2006, 09:17 PM	#1
GTS Mark Vrume Mark Industry Role: Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 20,912	The Rise of Ebaum's World "Viral media is all the rage these days, and Bauman runs one of the few viral sites actually making money. Without spending a penny on direct advertising, he's turned the high school hobby he ran out of his bedroom into one of the Internet's top-ranked humor sites, getting 1.2 million hits a day. There's a television pilot in the can, a book deal in negotiation, and a potential pact to bring eBaum content to cell phones. Annual ad revenue has doubled over the past year to $10 million, and the only overhead is bandwidth and salaries: Bauman is becoming a rich man. He has 30 employees who handle the coding, marketing, financial affairs, and assorted office details. He drives a shiny black Porsche Carrera. Besides gobbling up real estate around town and gas wells in Kentucky, he sponsors heavyweight boxing champ Hasim "the Rock" Rahman." http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ebaum.html Not bad for a 26 year old kid DH

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Pipeline Q Confirmed User Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3,891	his site innovated the idea of viral content. there are tons of sites that wouldnt exist had his not taken off.

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09-29-2006, 12:30 AM	#24
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