EBaum's World is evil!

[Cory]

Probably the same people complaining about his copyright violations and whatnot are huge illegal peer to peer software users as well.

aint irony great?

[Noah Melamed]

This has the potential to get very flamey and proabbly doesn't belong here in the first place, perhaps moderated discussion?

I do not consider myself an artist but I have worked hard with several of my cohorts to create some very popular flash videos. Eric Bauman takes various forms of stolen media, watermarks it as his own, and then reaps the profits gained by the advertising on his portal.

Newgrounds.com provides a similiar portal to ebaum's with one key difference. Content on Newgrounds can be fairly contested and removed at the authors request and credit is given to all those invovled in a piece of media's production.

Originally Posted by Cory

Probably the same people complaining about his copyright violations and whatnot are huge illegal peer to peer software users as well.

aint irony great?

I strongly resent such an implication. I would hope that the artists who create media for the web have an even higher level of understanding for the importance of appropriate ownership and copyright.

As a final note this "internet war" has had aspects involving acts of cyber crime. Members of YTMND banded together to crash the Ebaums portal Board. I do not condone these actions and hope all members of CD would realise the foolishness and the legal implications of such actions.

[sciguy125]

Originally Posted by Cory

Probably the same people complaining about his copyright violations and whatnot are huge illegal peer to peer software users as well.

Originally Posted by Noah Melamed

I would hope that the artists who create media for the web have an even higher level of understanding for the importance of appropriate ownership and copyright.

Disclaimer: the following is a personal opinion

I don't really have an issue with all of this unless money is being made. I think the laws should be rewritten as such.

Bauman is taking work and making money with it. That is where the problem is. If he was just displaying it on his website. Either as a repository of sorts or just a collection, I wouldn't care too much about this situation.