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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: THX on July 01, 2003, 02:20:03 AM

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: THX on July 01, 2003, 02:20:03 AM

A very interesting situation... apparently an editor for an AMD enthusiast site named Ryan Shrout tried to cover their products at the Tom\'s Hardware Million Man Lan Party, only to have the door shut on him because of a media blackout.  He believes the strong ties beween the site and AMD are shady and talks about it in his report here:

Ryan Shrout editiorial (http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?ArticleID=243)

Basically, he thinks AMD is giving THG exclusive reporter rights to their new products (especially the new 64-bit CPU) in return for favorable reviews.  At least that\'s what it implied to me.. any other interpretations please share.

So Omid Rahmat of Tom\'s Guides Publishing read the article and has decided to sue Ryan for liable.  Since Ryan is but a "poor college studnet" HardOCP has decided to pitch in and provide legal support for the guy since they believe he is telling the truth and THG shouldn\'t be able to stomp out stories like this.

http://www.hardocp.com - read the story on Monday, June 30 first, then the latest one.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10241

:nerd: vs :nerd:

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: mm on July 01, 2003, 02:41:01 AM

all the top review sites do this

/me shrugs

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: EmperorRob on July 01, 2003, 07:31:16 AM

down wit da man

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: NVIDIA256 on July 01, 2003, 08:44:38 AM

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all the top review sites do this

* mm shrugs
 

 

Very true indeed, TOM has always been the poster boy of this scenero, after all Uncle Tom was one of the fisrt out there.

Sadly there is only a handful of websites out there that are not heavly influced by corporate money.

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: Tyrant on July 01, 2003, 09:27:41 AM

this is not really suprising, coz unfortunately sites that dont do that dont last very long.

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: Avatarr on July 05, 2003, 02:44:21 AM

Oh come on. This isn\'t the film buisness. This is HARDWARE. If it were publishers doing the same thing with game websites, then worry your ass off. Tom\'s Hardware isn\'t about to fake benchmark scores. Jeez. If the hardware companies wanna be corrupt, they\'d pay the benchmark makers. Or failing that, they\'d cheat with their drivers.

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: Samwise on July 05, 2003, 03:22:25 AM

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Originally posted by Avatarr
If the hardware companies wanna be corrupt, they\'d pay the benchmark makers. Or failing that, they\'d cheat with their drivers.

You mean like nVidia? :)

Title: Tom\'s Hardware taking $$ under the table?
Post by: Tyrant on July 05, 2003, 08:26:21 PM

^and ATI ;).