The truth about what happened to HitEmUp.com

[Preach]

it's pretty lolish that people call it a "bastard site" of hitemup. that is pure hating and prejudice and nothing else.

 

[GhettoStar]

Well I recall the section, but hey Streethop is the present and future and both thanx 2 all involved is lookin bright

 

[S O F I]

StreetHop existed before the hack.

So, the forum was called Streethop but the domain name was still hitemup.com?

Are you sure you don't mean "streethop" AKA Hip Hop Heads, the sub forum?

 

[masta247]

I'm not sure but I think there was hitemup.com and streethop.com running at the same time in 2002-2003? I remember browsing hitemup while I found out Streethop, and it was before hitemup was stolen.

 

[Rukas]

Can you address the other side of the story, such as the belief that there was NO HACK and NO THEFT, but that you used the idea of a hack to instill nationalism in the 2pac fans ("soldier" user title) as you made your switch from a 2pac site to a hip-hop oriented site?

Now, I don't necessarily believe this to be true, but I don't wish to dismiss it either.

StreetHop existed LONG before the hack so that is ridicules. In that case why would we opt to lose all the posts? And why would hitemup.com now be the property of SINGH, VERINDER according to domain whois? And then why would I have made FreeTupac.com after it if I didnt want a Tupac site?

That theory makes no sense.

 

[Rukas]

So, the forum was called Streethop but the domain name was still hitemup.com?

Are you sure you don't mean "streethop" AKA Hip Hop Heads, the sub forum?

No, there were two sites, StreetHop.com and HitEmUp.com which both shared the same forum.

 

[hizzle?]

I miss hitemup.com

 

[S O F I]

I feel like that this theory is being overshadowed due to a technicality. I might not have the reasoning right, but I think there's more than you're telling us because what you just said in this thread is what has been circulating since "the hack". There's credible members of Streethop that think there's more to it than that.

 

[Rukas]

I feel like that this theory is being overshadowed due to a technicality. I might not have the reasoning right, but I think there's more than you're telling us because what you just said in this thread is what has been circulating since "the hack". There's credible members of Streethop that think there's more to it than that.

Well they are wrong. Unless Jon did something Im not sure about, which I very much doubt, then no there is nothing more to it at all.

StreetHop existed way before HitEmUp got hacked. The domain is out of our control. No one sold it as a buyer would actually DO something with it instead of waste it.

I swear 100% to the best of my knowledge that is how it went down.

 

[Maverick]

it's pretty lolish that people call it a "bastard site" of hitemup. that is pure hating and prejudice and nothing else.

didnt really mean any hate by it. just that alot of members from the hitemup days post over there, i guess the expression isnt very fitting for some; heared sofi say it once, and it stuck in my head.

 

[S O F I]

Alright, I believe you.

A clarifying question, though. Jon just let the company have it? He didn't try and get any money from them?

And another. You said you guys were going to take legal action against them? So...what happened? I assume no legal action was taken.

 

[EDouble]

for a reason from he

 

[hizzle?]

Alright, I believe you.

A clarifying question, though. Jon just let the company have it? He didn't try and get any money from them?

And another. You said you guys were going to take legal action against them? So...what happened? I assume no legal action was taken.

I remember them guys saying that Jon didnt feel like it because he wanted to move on and that would take too much of his time because he had a child and a job or something like that..

How much is a site worth though....

 

[Rukas]

Alright, I believe you.

A clarifying question, though. Jon just let the company have it? He didn't try and get any money from them?

And another. You said you guys were going to take legal action against them? So...what happened? I assume no legal action was taken.

What company did he let have? We didnt let anyone "have it." Please clarify the question.

Jon was going to take legal action but in the end I think he just felt it was over and it was a good point to stop. Like I said, he was starting a family and I think he just lost his passion for the 2Pac scene.

 

[Rukas]

I remember them guys saying that Jon didnt feel like it because he wanted to move on and that would take too much of his time because he had a child and a job or something like that..

How much is a site worth though....

Ermm..... Back then we could have probably sold it for about $40,000 minimum.

So why would someone spend that much cash to just let the damn thing sit there?

 

[S O F I]

Back in, geez I dont even know when, the early 2000s, Jon couldnt afford paying for the server. This was during the music boom and a company agreed to host the site for free in exchange for "owning it." What this meant was that they would own the rights to any advertising on it and control the domain.

You guys let a company have the right to own a $40,000 dollar site in exchange for them hosting it on a server?

Am I missing something?

 

[Rukas]

You guys let a company have the right to own a $40,000 dollar site in exchange for them hosting it on a server?

Am I missing something?

Well back then that was the only option, Jon didnt have the cash to pay the $300 odd dollars for hosting.

They didnt have the "right to it," they simply had the advertising rights to it as long as they hosted it. It was an option that we needed to take at the time and we could get out of at any moment, which we did after about a year.

Think of it this way, HitEmUp.com was vitamin water and this company was Coca-Cola, they bought us out by paying all of our bills but we remained in creative control. We then decided to break free which we did.

 

[S O F I]

Well back then that was the only option, Jon didnt have the cash to pay the $300 odd dollars for hosting.

They didnt have the "right to it," they simply had the advertising rights to it as long as they hosted it. It was an option that we needed to take at the time and we could get out of at any moment, which we did after about a year.

Think of it this way, HitEmUp.com was vitamin water and this company was Coca-Cola, they bought us out by paying all of our bills but we remained in creative control. We then decided to break free which we did.

And you guys didn't receive any money from them aside from them paying your server costs?

 

[Rukas]

And you guys didn't receive any money from them aside from them paying your server costs?

Not that I know of no. They hosted the site and made their money using advertising on it as long as we needed them to host it. Once we didnt need them to host it we hosted it and controlled the advertising.

 

[S O F I]

Not that I know of no. They hosted the site and made their money using advertising on it as long as we needed them to host it. Once we didnt need them to host it we hosted it and controlled the advertising.

Bad business move on yours and Jon's part. If Jon got some money out of it, not such a bad business move but either way you guys got shafted in the end.