How to Steal Content and Act Cool 
2/10/2003

by Heferito
I have a real bone to pick with a certain website out there that thinks it's cool.  I am of course referring to Celebrity Soundboards.  I'm sure that you haven't been there because my dead grandmother built a better site about her dentures.  Don't waste your time.  It's just a collection of Soundboards that other people made.

Basically the webmaster of that site just rips off everyone else on the web and refuses to give them credit where it is deserved.  Is it any surprise that Viacom is suing him for copyright infringement?  How doesn't that prove that he's ripping everyone else off?  He wants to be the one who looks cool and gets all of the attention.  Talk about a loser!  I realize that I have a couple of items on my site that I didn't make, but geez, I at least linked directly to the site of the creator and gave them proper credit.  

This guy (ebaum@celebritysoundboards.com) is unreal.  I just finished up a Homer J Simpson Soundboard and I was thinking of submitting it to his site until I read his so-called policy.  It's a total sham!  Read it Below:

"For all you webmasters out there that want a plug. We will not post any soundboards that has an oversized link linking back to your site. I don't have a problem giving credit where credit is due. You may post your name or email address in the soundboard file you make as long as it is not clickable. This means that if the user points his/her mouse over text and clicks with the mouse they won't go anywhere. If you do include such information, please make sure it is small and tucked in and looks good.   Rule of thumb, if your soundboard looks to me like a big advertisement to go to your site, don't bother sending it in."

So I wrote to the webmaster to tell him about how ridiculous I think his policy is.  You can read the contents of my message below:

Hello,

I am referring to your rules that if someone submits a soundboard to your site it can't have an active link back to their site and it can't look like an "advertisement" for their site.

I can't think of any reason why I would submit something to you for free  unless it could be used to advertise my site. I could understand if you were willing to pay for other soundboards, but since they are free you  should be willing to accept these things. Basically you are living off other people's creations and giving them as little credit as possible. It's
not "a plug" when someone is the actual creator  Why do you think that artists sign their paintings?. Instead you want to look like the creator as much as possible. Rock on!

I am sure that you are just going to post this on your hate mail page. I  am looking forward to "the plug".

 sincerely,
 Heferito
 www.heferito.com

Well just as I expected he wrote back to me to try and defend his "talent."  Read his intelligent response:

why dont you lick my fuckin balls? when you have a site that is half as good as my shit.. email me..

I guess he didn't get my point.  He thinks that he had anything to do with his site being good.  So that's my tutorial on How to Steal Content and Act Cool.  I hope you enjoyed it.  If you get a chance email ebaum@celebritysoundboards.com and let him know how cool he is.

UPDATE:  I just found out that even the hatemail on his site is fake!  None of the email addresses he listed even exist.  HAHA what a joke!

UPDATE 2/15/2003:  Do any of you idiots who keep sending me email think that I really care what you have to say?  I am laughing my ass off because I put up this page about 6 months ago and forgot all about it.  Now Ebaum found it and is all pissed off so he put up a link to my site so that all of you mental midgets could come over here and complain.  Talk about the kind of advertising that you CAN'T BUY!  I have gone from just over 1,000 page views per day to over 4,000.  Thanks Ebaum, keep it up!  

Be sure to read all the HATE MAIL I've gotten
from people trying to stick up for him!  It's funny stuff!

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