Friday, November 9th 2012
ChannelPro Tosses Elric Phares Out of Motherboards.org
Elric Phares, founder of the 20-year old tech publication Motherboards.org learned the hard way not to cut deals with the devil big corporate media houses that promise accelerated growth of your publication in exchange for a share of profits/copyrights. According to a rant posted by Phares on YouTube, Motherboards.org joined the ChannelPro Network three years ago, a deal which typically sees Motherboards.org hand over its revenue-stream management and copyrights to ChannelPro in exchange for site (cosmetic/technical) and business (diversification/partherships) development, leading up to increased revenues for all involved, which according to him, never happened. To add to that, Phares had been noting financial irregularities. When confronted with evidence of these, ChannelPro fired him. In his video, Phares announced what will shape up to be a long-drawn legal battle with his former employer, and appealed to his followers to unsubscribe from Motherboards.org (as run by ChannelPro). Phares set his base of operations in his 2010-registered consumer electronics website, TechofTomorrow.Elric Phares's video announcing his departure from Motherboards.org follows.
73 Comments on ChannelPro Tosses Elric Phares Out of Motherboards.org
pretty plix? i really want to see it.
thanks anyways
However, look at some of the facts, he isn't 100% in the right here. In his video he claims ChannelPro was supposed to develop a new website and never did. However, going to the WayBack Machine shows that the site looks very different now compared to what it looked like 3 years ago.
Also, he accused his employer of embezzlement with next to no evidence and then was surprised when he was canned. Duh! Also, he openly admits he has an anger management issue, so I highly doubt he calmly asked about the money he felt he was being cheated out of.
And on top of that in 2010, a year after signing the contract with ChannelPro, he registers and opens a site that is obviously designed to directly compete with the site he just sold ChannelPro. Yes, he didn't really do anything with the site until recently, but he was obviously planning to have a competing site at some point. If I owned a hardware store and one of my employees bought a new building down the block and put a big sign on the building that says "Hardware Store", I'd fire their ass as soon as I could too.
So I'll wait until the courts work out what really happened before I take a side. I'm not saying that what they did to him was right, but we've only heard one side of the story, so I'm going to wait to pass judgement until we've heard both sides.
It's TrueChannel Pro Stole Motherboardsorg You...
Also from what I understand he had to get his foot amputated about a year and a bit ago or something like that???
Unsubbing from motherboardsorg for the meantime. I think he might have seen this coming for a little while now because of one of his other channels 'techoftomorrow' becoming more computer hardware based. Amazing that motherboardsorg has lost over 150000 subscribers now.
I hope he still continues his reviews and funny stuff independently or finds another site to latch onto.
Also making videos about embezzlement, int he large scale operation of ad money that sites like his and this and others get, is serious business. I bet you he also has a gag clause in this contract, which is also why those video disappear.
Tons of the big sites, when they get big enough, have to take on investors, or enjoy taking on investors. However some of these investors ask for a lot of stuff, such as total control. If a company asks for all copyrights, i mean, you got to be stupid not to know you just got kicked out of your own company.
Anyways, yea business decisions are hard to make when you don't have any prior experience, a lot of these big sites have very big backers in terms of investors, they all make their money from advertising, which is provided from big vendors like cpu makers, motherboard makers, and retailers like newegg, and then if you click on the ads then the site makes money.
It isn't hard to figure that out, TPU has no black market trading operation going on to keep paying for its servers and time of some of their reviewers. I don't think w1zzrd will sell out, so i wouldn't worry about TPU much.
Just sayin. :p
I don't think Motherboards.org got one mil...
Not because the site would potential not be the same (or similar), but it would lay waste all the effort we moderators have been putting in to effect a hostile take-over from W1zz.
*starts saving up on cash, stockpiling on coke and goes out and buys a green hat*
:pimp: