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	(Anonymous) 2006-01-09 05:25 pm UTC (link)
	cackle this is enjoyable kicks back with the popcorn (Reply to this)

	(Anonymous) 2006-01-09 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	I think this is a better description, as linked from metafilter: http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2006/01/lindsay-lohan-causes-massive-dos-war.html - onaga (Reply to this)(Thread)

	crickets 2006-01-10 03:18 am UTC (link)
	snerkle (Reply to this)(Parent)

	naienko 2006-01-09 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	Does it count as trolling if I show this to my hacker friends and smile evilly? (Reply to this)

	isntitironic 2006-01-09 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	All this over proof that Lindsay Lohan is a robot? (Reply to this)(Thread)

funkyhelix
2006-01-09 06:36 pm UTC (link)

Um, no. Ebaum's World steals content from other high traffic sites. But what's worse, is they repackage the content adding in their own watermarks and claiming it as theirs. Then they slap up a ton of ads and such, and get paid for the content that isn't theirs.

Example: Someone makes a hilarious flash cartoon the way JibJab was during the elections. Ebaum's World would scoop that off the site, repackage it to look like they were the creators, and then make money off it.

There's more to it, like Ebaum's attacking a site with a weak DoS attack in relatiation for being asked to remove content.

What you're seeing here is the victims made up of several different popular websites, working together to obliterate Ebaum's World off the web.

It just happened to have a shot over the bow of a robot Lohan thing.

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	isntitironic 2006-01-09 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	That was meant in an 'of all the things to have finally set them off' kind of way. Somebody's music, flash video, artwork, etc, I could see people getting pissy about. But fifty publicity shots of Lindsay Lohan? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	photosinensis 2006-01-09 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	I almost read that as "fifty pubic shots of Lindsay Lohan", which would be...really interesting. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	isntitironic 2006-01-09 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	It could never happen. That's where they insert the batteries. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	amxjm 2006-01-09 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	I read that as "titty publicity shots" myself, which would also be... interesting. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	photosinensis 2006-01-09 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	I sure hope somebody takes tose futhermuckers at eBaums down. (Reply to this)

	notjo 2006-01-09 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	That picture of Lindsay Lohan is the scariest thing I've seen this week. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	feloniousfeline 2006-01-09 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	And it's only Monday. Doesn't bode well, does it? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2006-01-09 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	Dear god, was today only Monday? No wonder it sucked so bad. Now I am curious, though. WHAT is in your icon? blink blink (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	feloniousfeline 2006-01-09 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	It's a mushroom. An innocent mushroom growing in the wild. What did you think it was? looks innocent (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	notjo 2006-01-09 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	A burning cigarette butt, actually. Hence my curiosity. ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	feloniousfeline 2006-01-10 05:54 am UTC (link)
	Interesting. Never had that response before. My icon is like a psychological test in a way. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2006-01-10 01:31 pm UTC (link)
	Like a Rorschach ink blot, but more fungal. -Seiberwing (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2006-01-10 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Hmm... I think we have some of that mushroom's relatives on my campus. That's some variety of stinkhorn, right? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	feloniousfeline 2006-01-10 05:53 am UTC (link)
	Couldn't say. My mushroom knowledge is quite limited. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	moonpigeon 2006-01-10 09:09 am UTC (link)
	More like "schlonghorn!" Hahaha oh my god I'm so funny. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mcity 2006-01-09 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	Up until I saw that, I thought she was cute. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	annabelle_lee 2006-01-09 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. I heard about the whole mess last night from scans_daily. It was sort of funny in what felt like a "let's do something stupid to someone who's fucked us over instead of doing something right" way. Couldn't they have done something productive instead? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	photosinensis 2006-01-10 04:36 am UTC (link)
	With eBaum's World, no, they really can't do something productive. The only way to stop him is by using brute force. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sanguinary
2006-01-10 06:07 am UTC (link)

The problem is that they did try to fix it in a productive way. Dozens, if not hundreds, of creators who had their work stolen attempted to ask Eric to remove their creations. They contacted the company that hosted the website, but they weren't willing to do anything so long as Eric kept paying them enough money to make it worth their while.

And after a while when you keep hiting brick wall after brick wall, you eventually get pissed off to give up on 'productive'.

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	annabelle_lee 2006-01-10 07:24 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, so that explains it. From what I heard, it sounded more like they asked Eric to pull the content that wasn't his, he did nothing, and then they decided to storm the barricades, so to speak. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dracothelizard 2006-01-09 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	I'm sorry, I'm busy being hypnotised by that blue ball machine... (Reply to this)

	Lindsay derails my thought process greenglass 2006-01-09 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Is it sad that I have a huge girlcrush on Lindsay Lohan when she was still "fat" and hot? If she's robot, I could handle that. Robots are sexy too. Especially redheaded busty robots. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: Lindsay derails my thought process delarina 2006-01-10 03:30 am UTC (link)
	Oh, God, you're not the only one. She and Scarlet Johannsen are the only young actresses I really like. I must be the only one in my class who doesn't hate her. I'm glad she's going to stop being bulemic and doing drugs, too - did you hear about that? Maybe she'll stop beiing a skinny blonde and go back to being a hot redhead. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Lindsay derails my thought process greenglass 2006-01-10 03:37 am UTC (link)
	Dear Lindsay: Eat some fucking carrot cake and keep it down. Please. Love, Me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mael 2006-01-09 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	I fully approve of any geek spat that ends up producing stuff like this. Because that is love. (Reply to this)

	mistal 2006-01-10 02:36 am UTC (link)
	I'm stupidly amused by the sentence Sega game in early 2006 (Reply to this)

	xero_sky 2006-01-10 08:38 am UTC (link)
	snerk Yeah, the forum invasion worked so well when SA did it. Everyone should try it! Eric Baumann is a jerk, but giving his ads a bazillion hits is probably not the best form of vengeance. (Reply to this)

	innsmouth_eyes 2006-01-10 11:33 am UTC (link)
	Everybody's talking about that Lohan thing and whether it's really copyright infringement because he didn't take the pictures and blah blah, but what about all the really original content ebaum's world stole? Won't somebody think of the badgers?? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	innsmouth_eyes 2006-01-10 11:42 am UTC (link)
	Oh, and thank you, ebaum's world, for introducing me to Rubber Johnny. Eeeuurrgh. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	denimjo 2006-01-12 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	Quite possibly my favorite piece of work from this whole mess can be found right here: http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/ A dramatic reading of Neil Bauman's emails and phone messages. XD (Reply to this)