Regarding Eric Bauman

The owner of ebaumsworld.com

Begin excerpt from the article "Ebaum's World" on wikipedia.org

eBaum's World (subtitled "Media for the Masses") is a highly controversial website featuring videos, Macromedia Flash cartoons, and Flash games (all of which are taken from other sites, typically without permission). The site was founded in 1998 by Eric "eBaum" Bauman (born 1980). The vice-president of the site is his father, Neil Bauman (born 1941). According to the New York Department of State, Bauman's website is part of a corporation. eBaum's World Inc. is a Domestic Business Corporation, based in Rochester, New York. Registered to the same address is eBaum's Holdings LLC, and eBaum's Real Estate Development LLC. It was incorporated in 2002.

In an interview, Eric Bauman has claimed that in high school he was a poor student and a prankster, playing practical jokes such as bringing universal television remotes to school and using them in class. The website itself began as an inside joke among him and his fellow classmates, but eventually became a comedy website. Bauman dropped out of school to pursue this pastime of running this domain.

eBaum's World is one of the more highly-visited sites on the Internet. Some of the most popular content on the site are soundboards, which are web pages of recordings of celebrities saying words and phrases, intended to be used for prank phone calls. As some of the celebrities featured on the soundboards are associated with Viacom, this has led to an ongoing (as of November 2005) dispute between Viacom and Bauman; Neil Bauman has challenged Viacom to risk looking like bullies. The site also features "Forum Fun", a set of images to be used on online forums for multiple purposes; the majority of these images are taken from other websites and rebranded with the eBaum's logo. The site also has games and animations, as well as jokes, a chatroom and a store. Since the site receives many emails with content to add, there is a section called "Moron Mail" for submissions that do not agree with the Baumans' opinions. eBaum's World has a very large forum community, with thousands of members and over one million posts. In the forum there are areas to post pictures, videos, and high scores for games (among other subforums). Every Friday, Bauman selects some of the forum content for display on the site's main page, along with 2-3 jokes. It should be noted that the majority of this content is taken from other websites rather than created by the forum users.

End excerpt from the article "Ebaum's World" on wikipedia.org

If you are interested in more reading, you can view the full article here. It goes into much detail, and includes recent events such as the YTMND.com attack on ebaumsworld, and various illegal evidence of ebaumsworld.com and it's actions.

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