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Geek Culture / Attacks against eBaumsWorld.com

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Zero Blitzt
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Anyone hear about this? Here\'s an account of what happened, taken from a friend\'s LiveJournal:


Anyone get in the internet warz yesterday?

Holy ****, this one was huge...

I mean huge.

It was basically this:

YTMND, LUElinks, Newgrounds, 4Chan vs. Ebaumsworld.

Best part was, we had one more ally


SomethingAwful.

So they knew they were screwed.

They were completely ownsored. Of course, we took damage back. Even LUElinks is struggling. (They pinged us to hell, or something) They attempted attacking SomethingAwful, and failed miserably. 4Chan and YTMND forums are down, and I think Newgrounds is still defensive.

Yeah, what happened was, the website Ebaumsworld, known for being complete ****faces and stealing material from everywhere, started taking things, and watermarking them. A.K.A. Putting their label on everything, and claiming it as their own.

Well, they\'ve been stealing **** from Newgrounds indefinately. One time, they even had a line of code in their front page, that pulled a page from SomethingAwful, directly from its server, therefore, pulling Bandwidth from SomethingAwful. IIRC, that\'s illegal.

Anyways, the last straw was stealing the \'Lindsey Lohan doesn\'t change facial expressions\' YTMND gif. That was it. YTMND called for a full on raid at midnight.

Come 11:30, apparently the forums were too slow to manage. And come 12... Well... Yeah.

Luckily, LUElinks has an alternative webpage to which we can gather easily. I seem to be the only person gathering, though... LUElinks is just down... Hee hee.

But yeah, this was big. Their forums are pwnzored.


I was sort of involved, I registered on the forums and made a few spam posts, but I didn\'t get as involved as a few other people I know -- some actually went to the eBaum\'s main office and posted our community insignia, others DDoS\'d the site.

I believe the forums are back up now, anyway.

The attack also made the news:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28898
(There was also an MSNBC news blurb about it too, I can\'t find the link at the moment).


Who are the brain police?
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Dave J
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 02:17
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Yeah, that happened a few days ago, it actually started with http://www.ebaumsworldsucks.com (a flash created by the same person as the Ultimate Showdown: Ultimate Destiny flash). Nothing real interesting happened, just a bunch of people spamming eachothers forums and pinging eachother, a few tried some DDoS attacks but nothing serious became of it.

Also, you forgot to mention that Gamespot was basically on Ebaums side, and they spammed the hell out of YTMND as a retaliation. I think this image basically sums up the extent of what happened:

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/8/7/8735edd176526c7444e48670738aa131.jpg (Warning, over 900kb)

All in all, a stupid waste of time where many people need to grow the hell up.


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Zero Blitzt
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 02:38
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I really hadn't heard anything of Gamespot. Also, I thought ebaumsworldsucks.com was months old and from an old attack on ebaums that SomethingAweful did a while back?

All in all, a stupid waste of time where many people need to grow the hell up.
Yeah, I got tired of doing anything after the first half hour, because it was very stupid, but some of the discussions that were going on were still funny so I hung around in the chats, but eventually I even grew tired of them.

But still, I do think that if Eric Bauman wanted to put that Lindsey Lohan GIF on his site, he should've at least credited someone... if not the original author, at least the person who submitted it...


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Dave J
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 02:43
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Correct, EbaumsWorldSucks.com was created in about November last year and was made because EbaumsWorld linked to SomethingAwful from their front page (causing SA to loose a lot of bandwidth). However, that flash only just recently became very widespread and when EW finally stole the Lindsay Lohan animation from YTMND, they decided to do something about it. It's all very petty though, they need to get over it.


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Benjamin
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"Internet Wars". Poor socially deprived idiots these people are.

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I would think that these guys would have a better imagination... Primarly, go to newark and beat the crap out of the server with a baseball bat.

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I'm taking sides with 4Chan

lol internets

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Hawkeye
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Posted: 12th Jan 2006 20:16
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Don't mess with teh newgrounds -.-


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www.ebaumsworldsucks.com is the best flash movie ever

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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lol what's wrong with a webste if they don'y like it just ignore it

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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You can't just ignore it if it's taking away your bandwidth.

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What does it mean if I haven't got a clue what any of these people or websites are?

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SirFire
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The great thing about hotlinked images is that the original site can change the image, but keep the filename the same. The effect can have a negative impact on the leech site if say instead of seeing a video of a field of daisys you watch hardcore ghey pron with a message like "Get your own bandwidth!" splattered everywhere.

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If they are complaining about it being illegal, why dont they hire some lawyers and do it the legal way...

Or are they all claiming they dont make that much money through advertising ?

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Posted: 13th Jan 2006 16:53
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hmm.. what does ebaum do?

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Undercover Steve
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Posted: 13th Jan 2006 16:59
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http://ebaumsworldsucks.com

enough?

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JoelJ
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Posted: 13th Jan 2006 17:46
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Quote: "http://ebaumsworldsucks.com

enough?"

no, it's biased

anyone could make a flash video and make any site look like it's doing something illegal..

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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lol just watched the flash movie man some people need 3d now 3d flash would be cool

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/spain03/days2_3.htm << where i went for my holiday or www.portaventura.es
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Quote: "What does it mean if I haven't got a clue what any of these people or websites are? "


It means you haven't stumbled across a group of the most useless websites on the internet. I envy you.


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Cian Rice
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Meh... YTMND and Something Awful = Teh Maximum Ownage.

Just get over it.

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soapyfish
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Get over what. The mountain of corpses left after teh internet warz, or the bloggers over inflated ego because they were part of it.

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Cian Rice
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Get over the fact that Something Awful and YTMND are so much better than everyone else. XD

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Most of the people who claim that ebaumsworld steal their content don't even make a proper request to have it taken down."


Completely untrue - the creators of the site completely ignore all requests for stolen media to be taken down, not to mention that they plagarise by covering up artist's signiture marks and pretending they created work for themselves.

Bauman & co are theives, plain and simple.


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Any proof, IanT? Not sticking up with eBaumsworld or anything (shudder), but it's always nice to have a completely backed-up reason to go against someone.

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Quote: "It means you haven't stumbled across a group of the most useless websites on the internet. I envy you."


Woohoo! Won't be checking them out either!

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IanT is completely right, the gif was requested before the attack I believe<.<

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