Videos Of Guys Falling Down Weren't Enough To Placate Some, Evidently

Our no. 29 link today is a movie that spells out, in hilarious and clear terms, the backlash out there building against the spyware and grainy video depot eBaum's World, the site that brought you videos of guys catching fire, guys crashing their cars, guys slipping on ice, etc., etc. A message after the "eBaum sucks" movie claims that eBaum hosts copyrighted video and other content and puts its own logo on the stuff, and that if you're the rightful owner and you e-mail asking them to take it down, nothing happens. eBaum's World, for its part, has proud pages full of the various hate messages and cease-and-desist letters it's gotten, so reform is unlikely. But in the court of blog opinion, there is a very detectable groundswell of resentment. Writes DoubleViking: "Finally, someone else out there who agrees with what I’ve been saying over the last couple of years: 'Ebaum’s World is a sham and should be removed from the Internet.'" They're more fatalistic on this metafilter page, and this blogger may sum it all up with this closing sentence: "It's all petty, but there is money and much attention at stake." And the Internet wars rage on.

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 8, 2005 10:51 AM

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