Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
No, this post isn’t about the tax code (sorry to disappoint).
A battle is being waged (another money joke) on the internet for the use of material. As far as I’m concerned it is between the popular humor website EBaumsWorld.com and the more underground YTMND.com, but there are other parties involved. The YTMND site (named so for the cult following of the popular ‘Finding Forrester’ quote “You the man now, dog!” spoken ridiculously by Sean Connery) and it’s contributors are up in arms over a number of jokes and videos YTMND created and that EBaums proceeded to take for themselves. They gave no credit for the stolen footage. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a video called ‘Lindsey Lohan doesn’t change facial expressions’ (which is very funny and you should click that link to watch it, and there are other celebrities with similar videos) was taken without permission from YTMND by the folks at EBaums. No big deal, right? Well since EBaums sells ad space it is a big deal. From what I’ve heard from a guy I know* about the subject is that EBaums makes close to $6,000 a day from the ads, and the people who make the clips (including YTMND) get no part of the action. I guess you see the point of the money references. YTMND faithful began flooding the EBaumsWorld.com forums with spam and EBaums called the cops and wrote this funny letter to YTMND. And so war was upon us.
*I understand that something ‘I heard from this guy’ isn’t that reliable of a source and probably wouldn’t stand up in court, but know what? Not your CNN news guy, so shut up. Also, CNN isn’t that reliable anymore anyway, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Now, I have been known to borrow material for this site (see Commandment III) and in my stand up act. Back in the day (meaning last year) I would borrow a line or two (or more) from guys who I think are very funny like Mitch Hedberg, Jimmy Carr, Mike Birbiglia, and a few others, but the difference between myself and Eric Bauman, the creator of the aforementioned website, is that I do a number of things differently. I no longer use other comedian’s material because I have enough material now that I don’t need to use other people’s crap any longer, when I did I gave credit (not $, but I did give Dap) to those comedians, and (most importantly) I and my compatriots do not sell ad space. We don’t need to; simply reading Horrible People once a day will make your penis bigger in just 4 weeks.**
**Side effects may include itchy feet, upset stomach, blurred vision, vomiting, increased blood pressure, water in the knee, ankle bone connected to the knee bone, nasal leakage, brain tumors, diarrhea, rickets, irritability, and death. Side effects will include increased sense of humor and decreased moral levels.
I can understand people being angry at me for using material that I had no permission to use which is why I tend to not do it any more. Eric Bauman and the 20 or so other people who make the close to $2,190,000 (6,000x365) a year do not. I used the material because I thought it would get me more laughs just as EBaums uses other things to get more hits. But what I did is not impeding anybody’s ability to make money. It’s not like Mitch Hedberg was across town telling the same jokes and I was disrupting his audience potential. EBaums is making money off of other people’s work and that’s why it is illegal.
Mitch Hedberg’s dead now, so all his stuff is public domain anyways.
Just kidding.
Seriously though, click this link for free porn.
A battle is being waged (another money joke) on the internet for the use of material. As far as I’m concerned it is between the popular humor website EBaumsWorld.com and the more underground YTMND.com, but there are other parties involved. The YTMND site (named so for the cult following of the popular ‘Finding Forrester’ quote “You the man now, dog!” spoken ridiculously by Sean Connery) and it’s contributors are up in arms over a number of jokes and videos YTMND created and that EBaums proceeded to take for themselves. They gave no credit for the stolen footage. The straw that broke the camel’s back was a video called ‘Lindsey Lohan doesn’t change facial expressions’ (which is very funny and you should click that link to watch it, and there are other celebrities with similar videos) was taken without permission from YTMND by the folks at EBaums. No big deal, right? Well since EBaums sells ad space it is a big deal. From what I’ve heard from a guy I know* about the subject is that EBaums makes close to $6,000 a day from the ads, and the people who make the clips (including YTMND) get no part of the action. I guess you see the point of the money references. YTMND faithful began flooding the EBaumsWorld.com forums with spam and EBaums called the cops and wrote this funny letter to YTMND. And so war was upon us.
*I understand that something ‘I heard from this guy’ isn’t that reliable of a source and probably wouldn’t stand up in court, but know what? Not your CNN news guy, so shut up. Also, CNN isn’t that reliable anymore anyway, so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Now, I have been known to borrow material for this site (see Commandment III) and in my stand up act. Back in the day (meaning last year) I would borrow a line or two (or more) from guys who I think are very funny like Mitch Hedberg, Jimmy Carr, Mike Birbiglia, and a few others, but the difference between myself and Eric Bauman, the creator of the aforementioned website, is that I do a number of things differently. I no longer use other comedian’s material because I have enough material now that I don’t need to use other people’s crap any longer, when I did I gave credit (not $, but I did give Dap) to those comedians, and (most importantly) I and my compatriots do not sell ad space. We don’t need to; simply reading Horrible People once a day will make your penis bigger in just 4 weeks.**
**Side effects may include itchy feet, upset stomach, blurred vision, vomiting, increased blood pressure, water in the knee, ankle bone connected to the knee bone, nasal leakage, brain tumors, diarrhea, rickets, irritability, and death. Side effects will include increased sense of humor and decreased moral levels.
I can understand people being angry at me for using material that I had no permission to use which is why I tend to not do it any more. Eric Bauman and the 20 or so other people who make the close to $2,190,000 (6,000x365) a year do not. I used the material because I thought it would get me more laughs just as EBaums uses other things to get more hits. But what I did is not impeding anybody’s ability to make money. It’s not like Mitch Hedberg was across town telling the same jokes and I was disrupting his audience potential. EBaums is making money off of other people’s work and that’s why it is illegal.
Mitch Hedberg’s dead now, so all his stuff is public domain anyways.
Just kidding.
Seriously though, click this link for free porn.
reubs wrote this piece of shit at 7:22 PM
0 Horrible Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home