Comments on: Benchmark Reviews – corporate shills?

By: Grill

Grill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:17:45 +0000

Yes, there’s a million lies to be told. I would have rather seen them do what Eurogamer do – pull the review and commission someone else independent to redo it.

By: Grill

Grill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:12:42 +0000

Stu – Absolutely right – I’ll correct that, sorry.

By: RevStu

RevStu — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:45:25 +0000

Cheers for the support, much appreciated. One teeny correction – I *do* have a leg to stand on, since the DMCA (and almost all other worldwide copyright legislation) protects fair use for the purposes of news reporting, which the quoted bits of text clearly are. My useless hosts (JustHost.com) SHOULD have reinstated the material on receipt of a DMCA counter-notice, which I sent yesterday, but as previously noted, they’re useless.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:59:32 +0000

I’ve been following this and I still can’t believe it’s all exploded over nothing more than a review of a fucking chair.

The only thing dumber than that is Benchmark’s total lack of guile. Everything they do makes them look increasingly guilty, increasingly corrupt and increasingly stupid. I would simply have claimed that the review was accidentally swapped with some PR text, or that it’s misattributed and by someone who has since been fired, or any of a dozen other things that would’ve made me look less foolish.

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