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Originally posted by: DrPizza
I wonder if she used the images with permission, or if she took her own pictures. 🙂 I hope she used one that I submitted, because I'm 100% certain that I never gave permission for the image to be transferred to another medium. It'll be nice settling for .5% of her royalties.
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It's probably fine print when you submit/upload.
 
Originally posted by: nonameo
Originally posted by: BillGates
WTF!

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in Books > Entertainment > Humor > Cats, Dogs & Animals
#1 in Books > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Cats
#1 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Other Practices > Scientology
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Sure its a joke.
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Anon maybe?
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
I wonder if she used the images with permission, or if she took her own pictures. 🙂 I hope she used one that I submitted, because I'm 100% certain that I never gave permission for the image to be transferred to another medium. It'll be nice settling for .5% of her royalties.
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Send a LOLlawyer pic, a picture of a guy in a suit captioned "I can haz lawsuit?" or "I can haz payment?"
 
Originally posted by: Nyati13
Originally posted by: DrPizza
I wonder if she used the images with permission, or if she took her own pictures. 🙂 I hope she used one that I submitted, because I'm 100% certain that I never gave permission for the image to be transferred to another medium. It'll be nice settling for .5% of her royalties.
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Send a LOLlawyer pic, a picture of a CAT in a suit captioned "I can haz lawsuit?" or "I can haz payment?"
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fixed
 
Why is everyone getting so upset about this? Is it because they're sad someone else is making easy money while they only get laughs? I would totally buy this book, for the same reason I bought the Perry Bible Fellowship book. It's nice to contribute to the people who keep these things running AND I like having a tangible copy of these funny captions/pictures. If you don't want the book...don't buy it jackass! Anyone buying this book knows they can see all the pictures(and more) for free.
 
Originally posted by: dudeman007
Why is everyone getting so upset about this? Is it because they're sad someone else is making easy money while they only get laughs? I would totally buy this book, for the same reason I bought the Perry Bible Fellowship book. It's nice to contribute to the people who keep these things running AND I like having a tangible copy of these funny captions/pictures. If you don't want the book...don't buy it jackass! Anyone buying this book knows they can see all the pictures(and more) for free.
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The difference:

Perry Bible Fellowship is an original and clever comic created entirely by its author.

Lolcats are cat pictures taken by random people on the Internet, with words added by other random people on the Internet, and collected by a guy who didn't even have the creativity to come up with the trend on his own in the first place. The beginning, middle, and end of what the Lolcats "creator" did was provide a website and a simple web app to allow people to generate their own images. He probably didn't even do that much - my guess is he hired someone to do it or had a friend do it for him.

I see Lolcats as being sort of like anime music videos (AMVs), except with even less originality and creativity (and that's saying a lot!).
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
What surprised me was not the lolcats book (which makes me sad and angry, but not surprised at all), but Spore. Amazon had a recommendation for Spore and amazingly, there were well over 2000 1-star reviews, mostly citing DRM. Someone review-bombed Amazon.
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Welcome to last week.
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: dudeman007
Why is everyone getting so upset about this? Is it because they're sad someone else is making easy money while they only get laughs? I would totally buy this book, for the same reason I bought the Perry Bible Fellowship book. It's nice to contribute to the people who keep these things running AND I like having a tangible copy of these funny captions/pictures. If you don't want the book...don't buy it jackass! Anyone buying this book knows they can see all the pictures(and more) for free.
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The difference:

Perry Bible Fellowship is an original and clever comic created entirely by its author.

Lolcats are cat pictures taken by random people on the Internet, with words added by other random people on the Internet, and collected by a guy who didn't even have the creativity to come up with the trend on his own in the first place. The beginning, middle, and end of what the Lolcats "creator" did was provide a website and a simple web app to allow people to generate their own images. He probably didn't even do that much - my guess is he hired someone to do it or had a friend do it for him.

I see Lolcats as being sort of like anime music videos (AMVs), except with even less originality and creativity (and that's saying a lot!).
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*shrug* If he markets a product that people want and will pay money for, good for him
 
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: dudeman007
Why is everyone getting so upset about this? Is it because they're sad someone else is making easy money while they only get laughs? I would totally buy this book, for the same reason I bought the Perry Bible Fellowship book. It's nice to contribute to the people who keep these things running AND I like having a tangible copy of these funny captions/pictures. If you don't want the book...don't buy it jackass! Anyone buying this book knows they can see all the pictures(and more) for free.
Click to expand...

The difference:

Perry Bible Fellowship is an original and clever comic created entirely by its author.

Lolcats are cat pictures taken by random people on the Internet, with words added by other random people on the Internet, and collected by a guy who didn't even have the creativity to come up with the trend on his own in the first place. The beginning, middle, and end of what the Lolcats "creator" did was provide a website and a simple web app to allow people to generate their own images. He probably didn't even do that much - my guess is he hired someone to do it or had a friend do it for him.

I see Lolcats as being sort of like anime music videos (AMVs), except with even less originality and creativity (and that's saying a lot!).
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People are saying ICHC "steals" images when people voluntarily upload and caption the images. I know he didn't think of the idea, and I'm sure he didn't do crap to make the website what it is. But that's Web 2.0 for you...user generated content. Do you shun youtube because they don't create their own content?

 
Originally posted by: dudeman007
Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Originally posted by: dudeman007
Why is everyone getting so upset about this? Is it because they're sad someone else is making easy money while they only get laughs? I would totally buy this book, for the same reason I bought the Perry Bible Fellowship book. It's nice to contribute to the people who keep these things running AND I like having a tangible copy of these funny captions/pictures. If you don't want the book...don't buy it jackass! Anyone buying this book knows they can see all the pictures(and more) for free.
Click to expand...

The difference:

Perry Bible Fellowship is an original and clever comic created entirely by its author.

Lolcats are cat pictures taken by random people on the Internet, with words added by other random people on the Internet, and collected by a guy who didn't even have the creativity to come up with the trend on his own in the first place. The beginning, middle, and end of what the Lolcats "creator" did was provide a website and a simple web app to allow people to generate their own images. He probably didn't even do that much - my guess is he hired someone to do it or had a friend do it for him.

I see Lolcats as being sort of like anime music videos (AMVs), except with even less originality and creativity (and that's saying a lot!).
Click to expand...

People are saying ICHC "steals" images when people voluntarily upload and caption the images. I know he didn't think of the idea, and I'm sure he didn't do crap to make the website what it is. But that's Web 2.0 for you...user generated content. Do you shun youtube because they don't create their own content?
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I'm not accusing him of stealing images from people who voluntarily upload them. I'm just saying it's not original, unlike PBF. The only thing the guy is stealing is the idea. He just happened to be the first guy to think of creating a spin-off site dedicated entirely to cat pictures. So I do agree with Exterous that if he hosts the site and makes money from ads and merchandise, good for him. I still think the guy's a talentless hack.
 
Originally posted by: nerp
Of course they're going to try to ride this thing as far as it can go. I'm waiting for chzburgercat the cartoon on Adult Swim. You know it's coming.
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I actually really want their leetspeak word fridge magnets. They sold out like hot cakes though.

I really enjoy the site. I also really enjoy their sister site hotdog and graphjam. They are all really good.
 
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Originally posted by: BillGates
WTF!

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in Books > Entertainment > Humor > Cats, Dogs & Animals
#1 in Books > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Cats
#1 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Other Practices > Scientology
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Scientolgy harnessus powr of lolcatz.
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Probably trying to find more dirt on the /b/tards. Icanhas is an extension of Caturdays.
 
Now it's almost in the Top 25 on Amazon's book bestsellers :shocked:

I wonder what the authors whose books are ranked below it are thinking?
 
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