Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
I thought that, too. 'Bad publicity is still publicity'?
The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
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Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#12Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
There's always a chance, but if so they're very poor marketers. This is the modern world - there IS such a thing as bad publicity. They just got a mountain of it, and The Oatmeal came out smelling like roses.
And raised what, $40k for charity in a few hours?
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#13FunnyJunk is apparently responding quietly on their site, as just searching for the word 'oatmeal' results in no search results (that wasn't the case when this blog post went up). According to people I know that use the site, you cannot add comments with the word 'oatmeal', either. They also deleted every single linked image he exhaustively listed. I have a hard time resolving litigation like this with the fact that…
Google cache still has all of the content indexed example: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e8h2n1h...
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#14Is there any chance that FunnyJunk has played the Oatmeal for promotional purposes here?
There's always a chance, but if so they're very poor marketers. This is the modern world - there IS such a thing as bad publicity. They just got a mountain of it, and The Oatmeal came out smelling like roses. And raised what, $40k for charity in a few hours?
No. $50k.
AND RISING.
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#15FunnyJunk is apparently responding quietly on their site, as just searching for the word 'oatmeal' results in no search results (that wasn't the case when this blog post went up). According to people I know that use the site, you cannot add comments with the word 'oatmeal', either. They also deleted every single linked image he exhaustively listed. I have a hard time resolving litigation like this with the fact that…
How does this bode in the terms of destroying evidence? Is there any legal ramifications of doing this after you've engaged in legal action?
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#16I wonder if you can complain to the bar. Seems like a number of lawyers have taken up the "shakedown" model and been penalized for it. You should be able to complain to. The bar that this lawyer reflects badly on the profession for not doing his research.
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#17FunnyJunk is apparently responding quietly on their site, as just searching for the word 'oatmeal' results in no search results (that wasn't the case when this blog post went up). According to people I know that use the site, you cannot add comments with the word 'oatmeal', either. They also deleted every single linked image he exhaustively listed. I have a hard time resolving litigation like this with the fact that…
How does this bode in the terms of destroying evidence? Is there any legal ramifications of doing this after you've engaged in legal action?
Either way, they're dumb. Archives definitely had to be taken of the pages.
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#18I'm surprised that people haven't started contacting funnyjunk and telling them how much of a tool they are.
Here are some good links, if you are want to do more.
http://www.funnyjunk.com/contact/
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#19I'm surprised that people haven't started contacting funnyjunk and telling them how much of a tool they are. Here are some good links, if you are want to do more. http://www.funnyjunk.com/contact/ http://www.funnyjunk.com/abuse/ http://www.funnyjunk.com/copyright/
With honesty, what good will that do?
Re: The Oatmeal Fights Legal Threat, Raises $20,000 in an Hour
#20The legal herd definitely is in need of thinning. (I mean, career changes, of course -- to flipping Kodiak burgers.)
I'm glad parody and appropriately sharp (in more than one way) commentary have not been wiped off the Internet, yet. Hopefully, not ever.