Re: Gary gives up ** RGP Radio shuts down **



metallik wrote:
I, for one, am sorry to see something that enhanced the hobby for me go
away. And it is especially troublesome that part of the cause of its
demise was the hacking into Jeff's web site.


Did anyone actually prove this? It's not like gary hasn't lied in the
past... :) I sincerely doubt anyone hacked anything - it's just
another excuse of gary's.

Well, let me say one thing about that. I've seen similar things from "someone" in this ng. There was a time, some of you will remember, that I recorded a TV show on the History Channel. It was called "The History of Pinball" and it was a cute 1/2 hour show. It was not offered for sale on the History Channel and many people here had not seen it. And it was not scheduled for another airing. I put it on a Bit Torrent tracker for anyone to share. There were many here who didn't want to bother to learn to use bittorrent. Jeff offered to host that show on his web site so it would be a simple download. It was about 2.5GB and Jeff paid extra out of his pocket so that he could give back to the hobby. It was downloaded about 700 times (as I recall) and cost Jeff quite a bit, more than he expected. But he was willing to do it to give back to his customers.

Well, for some reason, someone in the ng decided that they would call the History Channel and tattle that Jeff was hosting their copyrighted material. How ironic! The History Channel contacted Jeff's ISP and his web site was taken down for that infringement. Hosting a 30 minute show for those in this hobby who wanted to see it... This is the same group that jumps all over Gene or Wayne when they try to enforce copyrights they own the rights to.

So, I don't doubt it a bit. There are those in this group who will go to great lengths when they don't like someone. And "hacking" a web site, whatever the details are, is exactly the kind of thing I would expect. So I am puzzled by anyone's incredulity about this.



Like Gary or not, his radio show was interesting and apolitical at times
and controversial and personal at times. Does that sound like the news


So you think a megalomaniac and a drunk calling someone "cody cum" and
"load olsen" over the internet is entertaining?

If you want to listen to that, I suggest heading down to the local
schoolyard and listening to the 3rd grade kids insult each other. If
you want to listen to pinball stuff, stick with TOPcast -- Clay's
repair guides have helped fix thousands of machines over the years--
or Talkpinball -- Lloyd's still doing exactly what Gary Stern needs -
operating clean games on location and doing whatever he can to grow
the player base. The only thing gary was growing was his ego and self
loathing. He knows nothing about pinball, and even the 'good' shows
weren't very good because he didn't have a clue what to ask the guests
about.


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