Encyclopedia Dramatica to be sued out of existence by notorious copyright troll ED needs $50,000 in 6 months or it's sunk by a frivolous lawsuit
We know ED as an important piece of internet history and culture. It's a repository I've used on multiple occasions to learn, which may surprise you if you're only familiar with it as a site full of insulting and funny articles.
It's a SLAPP lawsuit. Meaning it's total junk, the plaintiff doesn't plan on winning, just draining money from the victim by forcing them to mount a legal defense. ED is obviously in the clear. But that's what this guy does.
I don't know where else to go with this information. Reddit would be big, but it's normie central, and they don't like the internet. 4chan's coopted and I've never been anyway. I'll go give voat and gab.ai a try, after waiting for an account.
If you're looking for an actual article, ttp://theralphretort.com/encyclopedia-dramatica-in-danger-of-closing-after-750k-lawsuit-5024017/ archive.fo/XeVDl
This may have come by here already. I apologize if it wasn't right of me to post this here. I just don't want to have to say goodbye to this good friend of the internet.
This is a feel I was not expecting or was ready for in the least.
Michael Cook
Is the ED database open for download?
If not, then fuck them, if it is, then it can be immediately re-hosted just like the pirate bay. You shut down 1 pirate bay 5 more pop up.
Evan Nelson
Can't someone else just put up another mirror like they did when Oh Internet came into existence?
Oliver Jones
Are you even required to shill out $50k for a real jewish lawyer in cases like this? Can't you show up yourself? It seems pretty open and closed, it's either copyright infringement or not, jew makes his shill, you state your case, judge decides, end of lawsuit.
Asher Allen
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I'm sure it is. I can't remember how many times ED went down and came back with a new host or a new owner.
Angel Ward
ED is never going away
Polite sage
Matthew Anderson
It costs a lot less than 50k to move and set up shop outside the legal jurisdiction of the EU.
Low energy begging thread.
Christopher Perry
i looked briefly and I can't find anywhere where it's publicly available for download
Colton Jackson
And nothing of value was lost.
Nolan Bennett
Or for slightly less than fifty grand, download the cunt and host it yourself, like we did when blowhole deleted it
Hudson Thomas
Encyclopedia Dramatica needs to go, it is a relic of the past and stopped beig funny when any retard withba vendetta started writing unfunny shit on it.
Asher Ross
Modern times, I'll tell you.
Easton Watson
Just release everything then shut it down
Juan Morris
You should retard. That site holds the history of nearly every incident of online drama, along with shitloads of valuable information compiled about high profile libshits.
Andrew Price
Then we must destroy it immediately. You’re not making ANY case for it.
Matthew Stewart
Just like make an alternative
Ian Watson
Enjoy not having access to the personal info of e-celebs and libshits.
If the site's source is public that's viable. Otherwise shit's fucked. That info has been gathered for around a decade.
Ayden Walker
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Bentley Moore
I'm sure if worse comes worse the site owners will just upload the entire database online either to everyone, in a move similar to wikileaks, or will give the database to a elect few individuals to restart the site somewhere else.
Henry King
Encyclopedia Dramatica has its own image board now ae-chan ED has been pozzed for years though
Sage because kike shill thread
Alexander Cox
Never forget that these fucking faggots sold out and are actually responsible for knowyourmeme
Jordan Lopez
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Thomas Nelson
niggers tongue my anus
Nathan Walker
I prefer the direct approach. Is there anybody in Monsarrat's town who likes to bash pedo scum? Because that might persuade the pervert to mend his ways.
Yes, I know nothing will happen. This is Holla Forums, nobody ever does shit to the evildoers. I can dream, though.
Juan White
This is just going to get his shit spread around even more. He can' sue the whole internet, though I would like to see him try.
Cooper Powell
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Ayden Rivera
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James Price
This. Hail Hydra. Also, there should be plenty of faggots willing to defend the site for free, on principle. Muh free peaches and shieeet.
Nicholas Hernandez
It names the Jew. It screams it in fact. And I know it's supposed to be satire but you can tell when political articles are written with some sense of seriousness. This site either helps redpill people or softens them up first. One of the funniest pages was the old Nigger Manual. The page on Jews was personally where I first saw the Jews did 9/11 meme…or w/e it is as it and the page about it are decently written and informative.
Josiah Lopez
Do it 4 ED, I guess.
Aiden Campbell
So a lolcow is suing ED, what could possibly go wrong. archive.li/RpMdh
Angel Sanchez
Then you're fucking retarded for wanting to eradicate 10 years of internet history.
Luke Harris
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Daniel Stewart
I fucking hate the (((judical system)))
Sebastian Evans
This. Fuck them and just relocate. I doubt that it's even that big.
Jaxson White
reminder that HTTrack is a powerful tool to download an offline version of a site. That won't help ED with the lawsuit but it's important to keep sites/wiki on a local drive.
Tyler Peterson
and nothing of value was lost
Kevin Morgan
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Brayden Bennett
Bump
Jose Scott
I seem to remember that site being pozzed af. Has something changed in the past few years?
Implying this just won't all be mirrored somewhere else, always have the wayback machine and stuff too.
Lincoln Ortiz
Well from the impression I've gotten at this point is that they're essentially edgy, only ironically-racist liberals. They're not actually Holla Forums at all and if anything think of us and people like us as crazy conspiracy theorists. I know the current admin got buddy-buddy with a lot of cancer in GamerGate (even going to IRL GG meetups). Basically anyone thinking ED is Holla Forums is sadly mistaken, they're just edgy liberals who pretend to be racist for teh loolz. Or at least, that's the impression I've gotten.
Not to say that there's nothing of value on that site that would be a shame if it got shut down, though.
Wyatt Lopez
TRIPS WILL IT
Carson Sanchez
Wonder if whoever runs it would consider uploading the entire sites files to mega so anons could make a million clones of it.
Also, we should dig into this fuck I bet we could find some shit that will send him running with his shekels between his legs.
Jose Hernandez
Probably won't happen. As the owners of ED wants to get rich on it.
Liam Myers
Instead of begging for donations like letsplayers maybe they could sell some shirts with a decent design.
There are Holla Forumsacks, goons, Holla Forumstards, Holla Forumstards, /cow/boys, liberals, commies, conservatives, nazis, and an assortment of newfags and oldfags that hang out on ED. They might infight a lot on the forums, but their only real affiliation is to whatever's funny.
Jack Cruz
I fail to see how that site can do much more than pay for itself. If he is making more than server costs + 500/month Id be fucking shocked.
They revile humor and 90% of what is on ED would trigger them into a coma
Luke Phillips
t. newfag
Luke Nelson
Didn't say they were funny, just that they hang out there to write about Onision and whatever boring nerd drama is happening on deviantart. They were so butthurt at the Donald Trump article that they had to write a safespace version lol encyclopediadramatica.rs/The_Donald encyclopediadramatica.rs/Donald_Drumpf
Landon Richardson
Look at the disparity between their pages on national socialism and their page on communism and get back to me on why I should ever give a shit about this site existing.
John Lewis
ED is a resource that newfags have used to infiltrate our communities for years. Though, I guess taking it down would achieve nothing at this point. We still have KnowYourMeme which is twice as bad.
Mason Cruz
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Colton Morris
Give money to wesearchr goyim… yes yes… fun (((ED)))
Josiah Murphy
wew, that convinced me, how would one go about archiving all the articles?
If the plaintiff has no chance of winning, then why can't they defend themselves in court? After a few weeks of reading the relevant laws and histories of similar cases they should know what to do or say to probe the suit is frivolous.
William Richardson
pretty damn funny this kind of shit that brought me to Holla Forums to begin with. in what kind of world are parodies more truthful than reality?
Joshua Adams
lmao
Landon White
Fuck ED, let it burn.
Dylan Jenkins
I wrote them off when they cucked and made pro-sjw counterpart articles to thier original ones because people criticized they weren't attacking shitlords enough, and as usual the same critics are still complaining regardless. Let it burn so it can be reborn the right way.
Chase Perry
That stupid bitch ohinternet managed to wipeout a significant chunk of internet history when she tried to kill it the first time. I hope there are more significant archives available now.
William Brown
There's no unified group of editors, just go to the clusterfuck of an IRC to get an idea. Also commie faggots have been gaining influence even if the core is still around running damage control.
Josiah Myers
And the people who bitched for that are still bitching and want ED gone or converted fully. Its as if giving commies an inch gains nothing, who knew?
Eli Price
good
Jonathan Martinez
I used to be pissed about that, then I reallized there might be a benefit of not havng a glossary for newfags and shills just trying to fit in. To enjoy this shit you needed to be there when it happened. It's gay but not the end of the world.
Jeremiah Cooper
And by us I mean not you. This is what I mean, newfags use it as a glossary.
Cooper Allen
God, this is pathetic. Their forums are also pure cancer. Let it die or change owner.
Nathan Watson
Can't stop the signal. Lmao @ trying to shut down a wiki site with a lawsuit. I hope he's ready to file 6 more, because that's what it'd take. Especially one like ED.
Meanwhile, if I were the real owner of ED, go figure it'd be a nice object lesson for Mr. Monsarrat: Don't attempt to destroy someone who's got nothing left to lose. When you got nothing to lose, you're free of all consequence.
Camden Powell
Oh you mean like that fat fucking whale girlvinyl did?
Isaac Flores
That was GirlVinyl idiot. She was the one who shut down the original ED behind everyone's back so she could create a SFW, more profitable knock off called Oh Internet. Weev was the one who saved ED and brought it back.
Carter Evans
Nigger ED back in its hay day was what got me into the chans and internet culture in general. You're going back to 2006. ED was the only place on the internet that complied everything you needed to know about halfchan and internet history. Anything you ever missed or wanted to know was on there.
Only newfags would have any problem with ED.
Parker Carter
Check your comment and then check those digits. Then check them upside down. If you know what I know about all of this you'll be off to have a little chat with the one creator.
Elijah Campbell
At least it will teach faggots to lurk more, or be a proper assimilated member of a specific board's subculture before posting shit. At worst, allow them to ask. While ED is great with banter and all the glorious shit it brings, it's not really an issue. Besides, back that shit up and re-emerge.
Charles Torres
I wouldn't give muh hard-earned shekels to legit WN causes, you think I'm going to shill for the autist-spergs over at ED?
GO HOME, (((RABBI))) - YOU'RE DRUNK!
James Williams
fuck ED antiwhite Holla Forumstard scum that belong in a gas chamber
Chase Powell
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Evan Nguyen
Yes. Several people have it. I'm sure it's missing some pictures, but it can't be any worse than the current site.
Nicholas Martinez
It could be largely restored to it's former glory, but literallly no one has the skills, time, money, or motivation to do it.
Nolan Jackson
LOOK AT THOSE
Brandon Hernandez
Also I got servers so feel free to contact me
Kevin Butler
The original owner of ED decided to "grow up" at some point and sold the .com site and linked it to something called "Oh Internet!", a Know your Meme clone. The trick was that she waited some time and never told anything to anyone, so people thought site was just down for maintenance. Only when Google Cache was empty they revealed what has happened.
When the original ED.com died, a new one was made using a backup some guys did two months earlier. The backup was text-only, so a lot of things were lost forever: - Images. All of them. The userbase was encouraged to concentrate on this. I remember feeding my favorite article with pictures from my folder. - Talk Pages - History of edits
This. DON'T GIVE THEM A SINGLE SHEKEL They have already jumped from the .se domain to the .es one and others I can't remember. They didn't asked for donations the way they're doing it now. If they want cash just put porn ads up the ass. Let them put the site in a TOR site or whatever, there's no excuse for this faggotry.
Jackson Miller
This. I'm not gonna pretend I didn't love ED ten years ago or so, but the personalities involved in it have always been kiwifarms-tier untermensch
Joshua Lee
As is typical of internet communities with the potential to whore yourself for e-fame, the faggotry rises to the top.
Zachary Martinez
the main reason is because they're suing the main owner and caretaker of the site zaiger, who deals with the every day nonsense (besides the coding because he's not an autistic savant coder)
ed has a special place in my heart, if the jackass hadn't sued the main guy i would probably give 0 fucks but it is what it is
welcome to the new 'mericuhh
Josiah Morris
also it's encylopaedia dramatica
Sebastian Gutierrez
Kill self first poster cunt.
Lincoln Martin
I like the hydra approach, fuck the "raise money for legal defense approach".
> The remainder is then sent to a kike owned law firm, so an internecine (((legal battle))) can ensue, enriching kikes and wasting everyone else's time. puts collected funds back into a kike
Brody Hernandez
Ignore bottom part.
Kevin Sanders
plus it can be copied
Elijah Robinson
RIP .se you provided many lulz during the great triggering. May your rebirth be even lulzier than before.
Thomas Turner
HEY Holla Forums! be on the lookout! bookstores are pushing the book "the rainbow fish" really hard right now! I dare to you go read your old copy from when you were a baby! it's disgusting globalist propaganda! make people aware of it's disgusting message and expose it for what it really is!
Ian Young
ED is fairer than other sites at least seeing they're the few who tell the truth about Gamergate. What's their bitshekel address? I'll give some pocket change.
Nolan Cooper
this. also, if I donate and ED wins the lawsuit plus damages, what's my ROI? nothing? all right then
Lucas Phillips
Problem: >(((BASED))) [x] is being attacked by the Jews! Reaction: Solution: >send (((BASED))) [x] your shekels. Only the same strategy as every "right-wing" e-celeb has employed for the past 2 years. ED confirmed linked to the other Kikes.
Wyatt Wilson
Actually I remember now. The story is that Weev and his Jewish colleagues launched a personal campaign against a guy, attempting to drive him out of business by making ED the first search result which appears when his name is entered on Google. The guy (I can't remember his name but he has made videos about it) received constant threats at home and he gave them the chance to remove the false info many times before starting legal action. Weev demanded that he send nude pictures of himself in exchange. So he's suing instead. Yes, this thread was probably started by Aurenheimer, the Jewish fake right-wing shill.
Owen Perry
wtf isthis get lmao
Owen Gray
SLAPP laws are designed specifically to prevent you from needing $50k to defend a frivolous lawsuit.
ED is our greatest ally but it will never go down. Countless attempts always result in it changing hands and this time will be no different. I'll toss a shekel if you want though but it better be through buttcoin.
Matthew Russell
So it looks like leftypol is interested in taking it over.
Joshua Allen
I SEE YOU'VE GOT SOME BALLS, KID
Nathaniel Johnson
I hear ED has its own imageboard floating around somewhere, anyone got the link?
Angel Barnes
This kinda reminds me of Andrew Anglin and the $$$ he's raising.