ShaggyTexas Handover

[Viper 12109]

Any update on that? I'm kind of curious about what will actually happen to the site afterward? Is it just going to go down and stay down? Does Kevin Morgan have plans to try to keep it going? Does he think he can actually make money on it to the tune of tree fiddy thousand dollars? If so, is he dumb enough to try to run it himself or does he have some team technical people that will do it?

[NoName 16359]

I assume he is doing it out of spite, not because he expects it to make money?

[Viper 12109]

I'm sure that was the driving factor, but he's also a businessman. I'm wondering if he's going to at least try to make some money out of the thing. Or if he's smart enough to realize how unlikely that will be. Given the technical literacy displayed at the trial, I'm unsure of the answer on that.

[DocZaius 65]

It's gotta be just for spite.  

[bad motherfucker 315]

I'm still checking in over there just to see what happens.

Edited March 27, 2018 by bad motherfucker

[miguelito 11266]

Maybe Kevin is doing it for Sprite. He doesn't seem very smart.

[52-80 19189]

hes going to package the data and sell it to cambridge analytica

[Jester 382]

It was spite.  Now we'll see how smart he is.  If I've learned one thing over the years, it's that you don't want an angry shag/surly community after you.  He should shut it down and walk away.

My guess is he shuts it down and files another bullshit lawsuit once he realizes he acquired hornfans.

[Viper 12109]

yeah maybe he'll try to say blacklab "developed" this Invision "software" while working with him and he owns this site too.

[Patricio Swayze 17058]

27 minutes ago, DocZaius said:

It's gotta be just for spite.  

That’s true. You can’t return an item based purely on spite. 

[BurntOrange&White 39934]

Fuck Kevin Morgan, the racist pedophile who owns Eskimo Hut 

[Moby Ric 2058]

WTF is an Eskimo hut?  

[bschoolprof 6266]

So the shag was brought down by the head of a frozen daiquiri place we've never heard of?  We are a beaten people.

[Captainant 27682]

8 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

So the shag was brought down by the head of a frozen daiquiri place we've never heard of?  We are a beaten people.

It's really the most shaggy outcome possible if you think about it

[kevwun 15806]

We never heard of it, but it apparently made him wealthy enough to be able to out lawyer BL.

[TwiceHorn 31509]

I think ol boy Kevin's initial motivation was the ad revenue.  The shag generated a lot of hits/page views and had a demographic that was pretty appealing to some advertisers.

Amazingly, it appears that he thinks the shag will have the same value in his hands as it would have in Bob's or ours collectively.  It seems fairly clear from the deposition transcripts that ol Kev doesn't understand the economics of running a non-commercial website.

I gather that one aspect of the litigation was that Bob didn't run shag like a business, so he had only real records of revenue and not expenses and time, so a picture never emerged of shaggy's net operating value.  So that's where the monetary damage award comes from.

So, I would guess that ol Kev is going to run the shag kind of half ass until the ad revenue dries up and then it dies.

[irockalltherocks 55]

2 minutes ago, kevwun said:

We never heard of it, but it apparently made him wealthy enough to be able to out lawyer BL.

How was that possible with all of the supposed attorneys on the shag?

[gecko 1104]

47 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

hes going to package the data and sell it to cambridge analytica

If he does we should all sue under the Rome Statutes

[kevwun 15806]

They helped some, but when someone is willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars shit like this happens.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

16 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

So the shag was brought down by the head of a frozen daiquiri place we've never heard of?  We are a beaten people.

It's no over UNTIL WE DECIDE IT IS.

[TwiceHorn 31509]

I'm not sure BL got outlawyered, really.  Maybe he did.  But I think that perhaps the jury's sophistication with regard to what is and isn't meant by the term "software" as used in a contract may have been misoverestimated.  And, Bob's visibily cavalier attitude about the whole thing may have set the jury against him.

In many ways, what I can see of the litigation is that it was a really unfortunate convergence of a lot of circumstances:  a sloppy contract, shag understandably not being run as a business, etc. etc.

Edited March 27, 2018 by TwiceHorn

[HOOKEM4 5039]

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

[atomheartbevo 89735]

56 minutes ago, 52-80 said:

hes going to package the data and sell it to cambridge analytica

I think he does one of four things:

• Shuts the whole thing down out of complete spite and/or sells/repurposes the hardware
• Sells the personal data to various companies like CA. Plenty of companies would love our personal data. Somebody said this could open him up to a lawsuit or two or three though, since people are a might touchy about personal info. At the very least, he would take a huge PR hit for both him and his Eskimo Hut company, because people don’t like it when companies play fast and loose with personal data. 
• Puts the site up for auction and sees if he can get some money out of it from a spam/link farm, or from somebody who thinks it’s worth it.  LandThieves users would probably make a run at it. 
• Tries to run it as if nothing happened and collect ad revenue.  This could be feasible for the LandThieves side, since many said they would stay if he leaves it alone, and many/most didn’t even know who owned/maintained it originally

I’m leaning toward him shutting down completely. It’s the easiest and most spiteful thing to do. He may try to have somebody run it, but I don’t think he realizes the expenses that would incur. 

Edited March 27, 2018 by atomheartbevo

[Jester 382]

3 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

And it's glorious.

[utee94 15835]

4 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

 

Which again, is absolutely appropriate for the shag.

[phdhorn 6224]

That dude PRONGHORN is fucking cracking me up.  He is singlehandedly turning that site into shit.  Literally.

[Hellraiser97 183]

1 hour ago, DocZaius said:

It's gotta be just for spite.  

Given how completely ignorant his lawyer was on all things internet (and seems likely he's not any better), I'd say he probably thinks he can keep it running and make a bunch of money.  Obviously spite was part of this, but generally you don't get to be a multi-millionaire by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be spiteful.

[bernorange 8362]

He chose.... poorly.

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

6 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

That dude PRONGHORN is fucking cracking me up.  He is singlehandedly turning that site into shit.  Literally.

Someone should sue Kevin for indecency. 

[kevwun 15806]

That's what I think.  I'm sure he was pissed at BL, but I also think he saw a way to make some easy money and had no clue that shaggy's traffic could literally disappear overnight.

Edited March 27, 2018 by kevwun

[Cheeseweasel 26438]

1 minute ago, kevwun said:

That's what I think.  I'm sure he was pissedd at BL, but I also think he saw away to make some easy money and had no clue that shaggy's traffic could literally disappear overnight.

And leave a trail of shit behind

[ousux 5599]

38 minutes ago, Moby Ric said:

WTF is an Eskimo hut?  

According to urban dictionary it's a hotel room where bug chaser parties take place..

Or that's what it should say.

[Handcruser 2805]

Just checked in over there and it’s a ghost town. 

[bschoolprof 6266]

26 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

It's a metaphor for life.

[DoobieWah 1448]

52 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

That’s true. You can’t return an item based purely on spite. 

Well maybe I just changed my mind.

 

"Too late - you already said spite."

 

45 minutes ago, bschoolprof said:

So the shag was brought down by the head of a frozen daiquiri place we've never heard of?  We are a beaten people.

 

Are you kidding? Look around. The Shag isn't a URL, man. It's a community of like minded assholes.

 

We didn't die. We just moved. Screw that guy and his wine coolers.
 

[Reese Bennett 3615]

Just checked too. All the recruit geeks mad it over and that forum is dead. tjhooker solely responsible for new posts in Football. Clueless Cloak Room people are still there.

[Ldogg53 514]

11 minutes ago, Handcruser said:

Just checked in over there and it’s a ghost town. 

Fuckin' A right it is. 

[Seasick Sailor 3747]

33 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

The shag generated a lot of hits/page views and had a demographic that was pretty appealing to some advertisers.

Mainly DUI lawyers, strip clubs, and VD clinics.

[Hiphopopotamos 20876]

Landthieves dick-eaters seem to think, and are saying, that the sites will be kept up.  I don't know if thats just wishful thinking - but they claimed to have talked to someone.

[Mojo Hand 4580]

21 minutes ago, kevwun said:

That's what I think.  I'm sure he was pissed at BL, but I also think he saw a way to make some easy money and had no clue that shaggy's traffic could literally disappear overnight.

He's going to roll in like Hitler at Dunkirk. 

[Armybrat 40851]

45 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

Yeah, Prong Horn is going all scorched earth on the place.

Maybe that Kevin guy can promote the site to scat fans in Houston.

[Armybrat 40851]

16 minutes ago, Seasick Sailor said:

Mainly DUI lawyers, strip clubs, and VD clinics.

Any connection to Remington filing for bankruptcy?

['stache 21824]

Let him keep Rocko and Swam.  He can make a fortune advertising Norwegian prostitutes and alt-right literature. 

[Eastwood 4394]

I think there was a lack of realization that Shaggy was a collection of ~500-1,000 friends and acquaintances that generated content that occasionally garnered national attention, but was mostly an excuse to hide from wives, kids, and work and occasionally get together to eat, drink, and play casual sports. If the site generated positive cash flow off of that, great, but positive cash flow wasn't the main goal of Shaggy.

['stache 21824]

Is it necessary for me to delete my profile over there?  Would it really make a difference?  Pretty sure I didn't leave any personal information.  I did monthly donations for a while through paypal but I cancelled that and I doubt deleting the profile would remove whatever payment information he still has.  I also did not post the facebook chainmail stuff re rome statutes.  I guess I'm fucked.

['stache 21824]

46 minutes ago, HOOKEM4 said:

It is now just a forum of gifs with dudes shitting in creative ways.

He could rename it "ShittyTexas" and make money off fetish freaks.

[BTW 370]

Can one even delete their profile? I didn't see that option

[phdhorn 6224]

Just now, 'stache said:

He could rename it "ShittyTexas" and make money off fetish freaks.

Going by PRONG HORN'S activities there in the past 24 hours, it's well on its way to deserving that title.

[Heavy 6 68]

3 minutes ago, BTW said:

Can one even delete their profile? I didn't see that option

It's in the Rome statute.  Or statue.

[Viper 12109]

22 minutes ago, Reese Bennett said:

Just checked too. All the recruit geeks mad it over and that forum is dead. tjhooker solely responsible for new posts in Football. Clueless Cloak Room people are still there.

so best case scenario.