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William Shatner, Other B-Listers Start Signing Autographs In Personalised Video Form
Posted by Benny Goldman at 9:00 AM on August 18, 2008
At a time when the US$2 billion per year autograph business runs rampant with counterfeits, it's tough to ensure your memorabilia is authentic. Thanks to LiveAutographs.com, a website that shills personalised video "autographs" from B-listers like Carmen Electra, Stone Cold Steve Austin and the cast of Lost, that problem may soon be obsolete. Trekkie and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington recently praised the service after paying US$150 for a message from William Shatner, which took three months to arrive. Joke's on you Mike—I got a video from Shatner in an hour, and it only cost me iMovie and elbow grease. But for the last time Bill, my name isn't "Jackass". [LiveAutographs via TechCrunch, Reuters]
At a time when the US$2 billion per year autograph business runs rampant with counterfeits, it's tough to ensure your memorabilia is authentic. Thanks to LiveAutographs.com, a website that shills personalised video "autographs" from B-listers like Carmen Electra, Stone Cold Steve Austin and the cast of Lost, that problem may soon be obsolete. Trekkie and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington recently praised the service after paying US$150 for a message from William Shatner, which took three months to arrive. Joke's on you Mike—I got a video from Shatner in an hour, and it only cost me iMovie and elbow grease. But for the last time Bill, my name isn't "Jackass". [
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Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity
Posted 9:17 AM 18/8/08
Mine's better. But Bill kept calling me "RocketMan". It's SteveDave Bill, SteveDave.
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Git Em SteveDave displays attention-grabbing vanity
robpruitt
Posted 9:14 AM 18/8/08
This is a great idea but could make resale more difficult and eliminate the middle-man. In other words, sounds great.
robpruitt
MrSophistication
Posted 9:12 AM 18/8/08
Denny Crane!
MrSophistication
dtmoore555
Posted 9:12 AM 18/8/08
shatner rules!!!
dtmoore555
blitzkrieg999
Posted 9:05 AM 18/8/08
I love Shatner, and this is pure Bill. Awesome x 10!
blitzkrieg999
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 10:10 AM 18/8/08
HEHEHE GIZMODO! flashmob rulez! I'll be there!
vamo la galera!
Ariel_Wollinger
jrghoull
Posted 9:54 AM 18/8/08
the hell with shatner! how much for an autograph from charles "i eat newborn babies" manson?!?!
jrghoull
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 9:43 AM 18/8/08
I charge just 999 for my autograph. Enjoy while I am not famous!
Ariel_Wollinger
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 9:43 AM 18/8/08
@Ariel_Wollinger: LOL
Ariel_Wollinger
apeguero
Posted 9:42 AM 18/8/08
The Negotiator!
apeguero
Ariel_Wollinger
Posted 9:41 AM 18/8/08
you paid 150 dollars for that?
Ariel_Wollinger
godwhacker
Posted 9:37 AM 18/8/08
@Benny Goldman
seems to me it would be perfectly natural for him to refer to you as such, after calling him a b-lister and all....
i keed, i keed.
or DO i???????
godwhacker
Tired_
Posted 11:11 AM 18/8/08
So, they take one video, make infinite copies, badly muffle in personalization, and call it a video autograph? Fail.
Tired_
aaj111
Posted 12:27 PM 18/8/08
The shat has fit the fan!
aaj111
Sticky230
Posted 12:59 PM 18/8/08
I love the write-up for this. "B-listers... and the cast from Lost."
Classic.
Sticky230
ALT
Posted 12:59 PM 18/8/08
@Tired_: yeah Im sorry man, you gotta read the article before you throw an incredibly tired 'fail' line out there.
ALT
phoenix96
Posted 12:50 PM 18/8/08
@Tired_:
"I got a video from Shatner in an hour, and it only cost me iMovie and elbow grease"
Reading comprehension > you.
phoenix96
krizoitz
Posted 1:28 PM 18/8/08
Shatner is hardly a B-Lister. B-list stars don't win Emmy's. B-lister's don't become pop culture icons (except as B-listers). Shatner may be a lot of things, not all of them flattering, but he is no b-lister.
krizoitz
johnnyabnormal
Posted 3:11 PM 18/8/08
Couldn't the whole thing be faked anyway? Photo or video?
johnnyabnormal
tsunamisurf
Posted 7:46 PM 18/8/08
was the video edited (voice over) for this post? or is that essentially what the service is?
tsunamisurf
FrankenPC
Posted 11:16 PM 18/8/08
BAH! He's gone from the list of video signatures.
FrankenPC
Amsterdaam
Posted 12:26 AM 19/8/08
@tsunamisurf: Can you read?
Amsterdaam
VideoVampire
Posted 1:48 AM 19/8/08
Captain Kirk A B lister! Denny Crane a B lister! How dare you spout such sacreligous blasphemy? I am going to have to rethink my readership of this site! ;)
VideoVampire
Yifkong
Posted 6:39 AM 19/8/08
@krizoitz: B-listers also form when you wear uncomfortable shoes.
Yifkong
Blue Oyster Cultist
Posted 3:59 AM 20/8/08
@krizoitz: The writer of this article must have more Emmys.
@Yifkong: Oh man, I almost blew diet cherry coke zero out my nose, and I'm drinking coffee!
Blue Oyster Cultist