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Open source developers are just a bunch of chumps.

Not really. If Linus had closed sourced Linux back in 1991, approximately this many people would use it today: 0.

Instead, by making it free, he has made $150 Million.

Hey now, that's not nothing. It's almost a tenth of what their CEO is worth!!!

Also appears you'll need to prove you were affected with documentation in order to collect it. Of course I guess if it was already in the divorce proceedings, that shouldn't be too hard.

Google was wrong to scrape his data without his permission

Please show me where he alleges that Googlebot ignored the robots.txt directives to not index his website.
  $ curl http://www.celebritynetworth.com/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /phpmyadmin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Allow: /wp-includes/js/
Allow: /wp-includes/images/
Disallow: /hotlinks/
Disallow: /dev/

Sitemap: http://www.celebritynetworth.com/sitemap_index.xml

When interviewed, Brian, the brilliant mind behind the "website future billionaires read everyday", said "It's outrageous that after all the trouble we went to adding semantic markup to our site so that we'd be featured in Google's rich snippets, and tagging in our Google Webmaster account.... those bastards didn't give us half their annual income."
  URL=www.celebritynetworth.con
curl -s "$URL" |sed -n "//,//p" | grep -ioe ""
curl -s "$URL" | grep -ioe ""
echo "`curl -s ""$URL"" |sed -n 's:.*\(.*\).*:\1:p'`"

Brian also gleefully announced plans to "sue Slashdot, Google, and the Outline into obscurity for blatantly breaching the terms and conditions of my brilliant website and providing links to it without permission"

You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without CelebrityNutWorth's prior written consent.

Off the record (on the QT), Brian later told this reporter "[sniff] the best thing about this is - I'm gonna be f*'n rich, and our whole site is made of stories and pictures we scraped off other sites!, and...um, do you have a daughter who wants to be rich and famous? [sniff]",

Another clown who claims his "ideas" and "words" are worth money but hasn't sent a single cent in royalties to Shakespeare's descendants.

Supposedly Trump would be as welthy or wealthier if he had just put his inherited money in an index fund:
http://www.celebritynetworth.c...
"Depending on which figures you use, if he had taken that $40 million and put it in a simple index fund, he'd have about $3.4 billion in the summer of 2015 (not counting investment fees and taxes), which is in the same neighborhood as what he's worth now [assuming his public claims are accurate]"

Of course, that probably would have been boring to Trump...

Back in 2009 I started an email thread on "the psychopath as peer" on the p2presearch list, and here was a most insightful and cautionary comment by Andy Robinson about using the term "psychopath" to describe anyone (including, in this case, Trump) which amplifies on your concern about indirect diagnosis and labelling:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net...

From: Andy Robinson
Mon Nov 2 16:17:58 CET 2009

I'd be careful with these kinds of classificatory schemas for other reasons
as well - they have a history of complicity in regimes of regimentation and
control, as ways of pathologising difference. While I'd be the first to
endorse the idea that there are real kinds of neurological difference in
cases such as autism and possibly schizophrenia, I'm sceptical of the idea
that real differences can be deduced simply by creating checklists of
"behaviours" or subjective stances. Most often it is a matter of old men
with beards sitting round in smoke-filled rooms deciding arbitrarily which
"behaviours" or subjective dispositions will be classified as "abnormal" and
hence included on these lists - hence the inclusion of such things as
homosexuality. We are never far away from the world of Soviet and Chinese
designations of dissidents as mad - and there have been cases of this kind
in Britain and Holland too. Today we have another sinister development in
Britain of the use of psychiatric testing to jail people "indefinitely" (for
life) for middle-level offences, on the grounds of the supposed risk they
pose. I actually know someone who had to argue with her psychiatrist to
avoid being classified as a psychopath (presumably she means ASPD?) on the
grounds of her political support for property damage in some circumstances.
Psychiatry mobilised as system of control - the opposite of what it should
be doing, which is protecting difference from persecution through
assumptions of sameness. A full recognition of the radicality of
psychological difference has drastic effects for ethical theory and
jurisprudence, amounting to an effective suspension of judgement due to
incommensurability of difference and intangible effects of unjust context -
something recognised in historic ideas of *mens rea*, but increasingly
resisted today.

The historical construction of the "psychopath" is problematic, because it
is clear from the studies of the "London Monster" that the *figure* of the
psychopath in popular imaginations precedes the actual emergence of serial
attackers of this particular kind. Also that the emergence of this figure
is closely connected to the rise of modernity and the alienated city in
praticular. Of course, the biological determinists will then revise the
historical record to attempt to reinterpret earlier instances of mass-murder
in the same terms - but the discursive status was quite different. Anyway -
it is clear that the social fears of the random stranger without social
ties, who will behave in a "predatory" way, arises from the disintegration
of social density in the modern city and the increasing frequency of contact
with people with whom one has no particular affinity or specific relation.
Hence the fear that such a person might be

Oil is all natural and moreover oil is 100% organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what's behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salaries while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie schlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

Oil is all natural. Oil is organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what is behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy ? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salarys while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try Six and a Half Million Dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greenie shlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

Oil is all natural. Oil is organic. It is part of nature, occurring naturally. It has been seeping from the earth for thousands of years without harm.

Humans are pretty arrogant to think that they are better than Nature. Oil is degraded naturally in the environment by wind, water, ultraviolet light, and microorganisms.

So what's behind this new get rich quick scheme? As our European forefathers asked "cui bono?"

Who benefits? Simple. The shysters and fraudsters who try to wrangle contracts and lucrative government and investor money for their hare brained scheme. Do you know the Sham Wow Guy? Or the vegomatic? Or any of those other scam artists peddling their cheap made in China doodads? Well these "scientists" have those pikers beat by a country mile.

These crooked "scientists" make fabulous salarys while shamelessly scamming the general public. Take that fake scientist Bill Nye. He is at the top of the heap of slight of hand artists. How much do you think he's worth? How much has this master snake oil salesman profited from his outlandish claims? How much is he worth? Try six and a half million dollars! That's $6,500,000.

Now consider the poor earthy-crunchy greeie shlub. He has a degree in sociology. He's pushing 30 years old. He meticulously recycles plastic/paper/glass/food scraps. His vegan diet consists of quinoa and rice. He shuffles around in Birkenstocks, works at the Rite Aid for a little over minimum wage, 31.5 hours per week, less that 20K per year. It's not enough hours even to qualify for company insurance.

Our poor schlub has a sunken chest and a pale pasty complexion. This chump lives this spartan third-world lifestyle so that he can "help the earth", sending every spare shekel to foundations controlled by the likes of Bill Nye, people who cruise around in tricked out Cadillac Escalades, while quinoa Birkenstock boy humps to work on his two wheel thrift shop "cruiser",

Cui bono? Who benefits? Why the fraudsters behind this "Magic Oil Sponge", the crooks and "scientists" pocketing a fortune in graft while putting the Sham Wow Guy magic sponge to shame. Mr. Sham Wow couldn't even dare to dream of a con this large and lucrative.

You're right about the merch part. Since Disney took over, I can't throw a rock without it hitting an image of either Yoda or Darth Vader. It is reprehensible, but not surprising. This is Disney were talking about...

What is amazing is compared to the merch from the original three films, Disney has taken it up more than one notch.

But were talking about a guy who made an incredibly insightful deal regarding merchandising(Billions of $$$ in TOYS!!!) with the studio to finance the first film, and then used the winnings from that first film to finance the rest himself, in effect becoming an independent film maker.

With all that being said, with all the hype, the money, blah diddy blah, blah blah, should we hate the films?
If you don't like them fine, but a lot of people, myself included are HUGE Star Wars fans, and love to watch them, and can't wait to see the next one.
Just because something is popular and makes money doesn't necessarily mean it is devoid of entertainment value, or any other reasons that people love a certain film, book or piece of music.

Keanu Reeves has an estimated net worth of $350 million ... I'm not sure I'd call him a failed star.

Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone knows who he is.

Dude, Totally!
If we lack names for failed stars, there's lots of Kardashians...

Keanu Reeves has an estimated net worth of $350 million ... I'm not sure I'd call him a failed star.

Love him or hate him, pretty much everyone knows who he is.

2) All non-commercial infringing (i.e. no profit motive - and, no, ads don't count) would carry a penalty of $100 times the market value of the work. For example, get caught distributing 500 MP3s? Your fine would be around $50,000 (500 * $1). Still high, but not "bankrupt you for life" high.

But that's not the relevant market value. For example, Apple distributes MP3s on the iTunes Music Store. Do you think, for example, they only paid $1 to Taylor Swift to distribute Bad Blood? Of course not. They're paying royalties and likely have a fixed floor amount too (e.g. 30 cents per copy sold, minimum of $100,000, with the expectation that they're going to sell way more than a million copies). Or, for another example, remember a decade or two back when Michael Jackson bought distribution rights for a whole bunch of the Beatles' catalog? He paid $47.5 million for 4000 songs, or a little under $12k per song.

So, the market value for a single download of an MP3 may be $1, but the market value for distributing the MP3? Try somewhere between $10k and $150k or more. And suddenly, the damages of $9,250 per song for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, or $22,500 per song for Joel Tenenbaum sound a lot more reasonable.

It's not that copyright damages are flawed... It's that people aren't making just copies for themselves, but are entering the market as distributors.

is the richest company of all time. So much for professionalism.

So much for facts.

I hate to have to point this out but Rainbow/PUSH isn't a "civil rights organization" by any stretch of the imagination. It's Jackson's personal vehicle for racialist shakedowns like this:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...

He has about $10M in the bank:

http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

The only "civil rights" he cares about are those of his bank account.

Yep, good luck convincing everyone that they should live on only what they "need" to survive, because the mud-hut dwellers in third world countries "deserve" to live like 2010-era Americans.

In the author's wet dreams the Americans live in mud huts. People like him have run entire countries before, read a history book to see how it turned out. Oddly, those running the country don't have to deal with scarcity of resources.

http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

Could be something like this

Fuck yeah... if I were a hundred-thousandaire working a salaried position like Linus does I would definitely shove as much pizza, bacon, and Mt Dew down my gullet at possible.

Oh, wait. No I don't.

I think you mean a 10-mllion-a-year-aire with a net worth of $150M:

http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

Ars also has an article saying Yahoo maybe poaching Youtube "Stars" like Jenna Marbles.
http://arstechnica.com/busines...

Bachelor of Science in Psychology, and later attended Boston University for her Masters of Education in Sport Psychology and Counseling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... she's no slouch, and a sense of humor that's just enjoyable.

I first came across her in the video "How to trick people into thinking you're good looking" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... and it surprised me how decent it was (as opposed to most videos).

The bigger surprise? She's making ton's of money from Youtube ($4.3 million at least) - good for her. http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

Youtube has a video they put together "Rewind YouTube Style 2012" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... done to the video of PSY - Gangnam Style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... (working on 2 Billion views , mucho dinero). And where I came across FreddieW ($1.8 million) another good sense of humor.

Yahoo has a long climb to even become seen as a video source, It went from the next big thing to unnoticed over night. Youtube has become huge and an unexpected source of income to many. Me? I still won't allow ads on my videos, that any aren't being being viewed is irrelevant :}

disclaimer
I don't subscribe to any youtube channels, apparently that's a good thing, reading the comments on the Ars article you can't view Youtube, or comment to a video without first going through Google +, I can (it can't be that hard).

And more importantly, I expect kick backs from all mentioned above.

When was the last time you heard about someone buying a counterfeit shirt, putting it on, then dying from it, or killing someone else?

Oh, and various multi-million dollar drug busts:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.abc6.com/story/2336...
http://www.news.com.au/nationa...
http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

+ submissive lawyers = what's happening.
Would anyone want to work under this "Larry"?

If so, what is it like? Is he throwing chairs as well or is he not strong enough?

In what percentage bracket is he - 2, 3.. important questions, right?

http://www.forbes.com/pictures...
http://www.forbes.com/profile/...
http://www.celebritynetworth.c...

http://elitedaily.com/money/en... ...
He is a serious Womanizer

Ellison, like all Elite men, is a womanizer. He has been linked to countless celebrities, heiresses, and other notable figures over the world. He is also divorced 4 times. Ellison can often be found dating three Oracle employees simultaneously literally.

Hrm...

Youtube has been paying the content owners of high-traffic videos for almost 5 years now. Some of the most popular users/sites are making > $1M a year on them now

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/celebrity/the-25-highest-earning-youtube-stars/

It cost over $100 million, the reason is if you have too much money, you spend too much money. There is very little reason for them to be efficient. Why do you think Facebook can offer $3 billion dollars for snapchat, a company that has no revenue. They have more money than they know what to do with.

Think of it this way if you got a billion dollars today you may go out and by some expensive sport car(s), would they get you from a to b any quicker, safer, more reliably, no, no, and no. You still need to keep to the speed limit, most cars can do that, with that extra power you are probably more likely to crash they are not designed for safety. A car like a Toyota is far more reliable. The only thing you gain is showing people you can afford to spend that much money on a car.

Sorry about the car analogy.

Look at these yachts, http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/10-expensive-yachts-world/ number 1 is a fake but number 2. $800 mil for a yacht, that's 8 Xbox controllers.

Not to make it a dick measuring competition on Tovalds behalf but you look at the guy on the other side of the fence who made staggeringly more.

Besides, we wont mention that this person in question has since then retired and is still making literally 100x more per year than Tovalds. I get your point but relatively speaking, If Tovalds chose to sell out how much more could [of] he made/make?

I argue that because he's giving Linux freely to the world and with limited monetary gain that we can't chastise him too much about it either.

You call the ~$10,000,000/year he makes "limited monetary gain?"

Yes, he probably could make more elsewhere, but let's not kid ourselves that Linus is still cobbling linux together in his mom's basement anymore.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/john-mcafee-net-worth/ and http://www.therichest.org/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/ceo/john-mcafee-net-worth/ both say hes worth $4m but don't give a date.
I hope he's got enough left. Either way hes a smart guy so i'm sure he'll land on his feet.

True on this list of voice actor's net worth I see a lot of Futurama people. But, I also notice the people from Futurama have more of a portfolio of voice characters that would explain how they have so much money, and they're also trumped by people who only do less varied work. I'm undecided.

It's cute that you actually buy that. David Cameron has a net worth of $50 million. Even if supposing he's financially illiterate and shoves it in a savings account it would still net him $1.5 million each year. But let's all just ignore the facts and pretend he's an underpaid middle-class average Joe like you and me.

I didn't think she was too bad, then I realised I was looking at the dog. But when you're batshit insane, you take what you can get. Plus I don't believe he's that rich, he made spectacularly bad investments, and probably has less than a couple of million left now.

This article implies that http://www.celebritynetworth.com/ is inaccurate with their wealth estimates! How could that possibly be? If they were inaccurate, how could they possibly have that domain name and be quoted in highly moderated slashdot comments?

Source - http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/singers/sarah-brightman-net-worth/ Even with help I find this unbelievable, at least with that figure.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/singers/sarah-brightman-net-worth/
It would seem she can't afford to go to space.

I'd still be happy to be worth about $8M. Sure, it could have been more, and at one time was on paper, but if this is true he still has done really well for himself.

Chuckles.. 3 continents combined only 13 school shooting. What's the total count for Aaamerica alone ? may those in power learn to clean the system at root. General public in america (the ones born/raised here) glorify and sugar coat government fed unrealistic information (right/left or a stupid tea party opinion) from day 1. Go figure! "Comic-Con brings in $163 million per year for the city of San Diego! There’s talk of Comic-Con leaving San Diego. For the sake of their local economy, they’d better hope the nerds stay in their fare city." http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/how-much-does-comic-con-make-for-san-diego/ my two cents..focus should be in teaching math this could potentially assist in "done the math enough to know the danger of second guessing"....

Whoosh. I'm not talking about the cost of the operation, I'm talking about the "free market" setting the prices of organs before you even get to the hospital.

Poor people can be covered under Medicaid. What Medicaid wont do is get in a bidding war with a 71 year old former oil executive who can buy a donors heart for a cool $45 million and still have half his net worth remaining.

Is Paris Hilton is your worst case example?

Yes she has an extravagant lifestyle. However she also has a significant number of active business ventures including publishing, fashion, her own hotel chain and mobile gaming.

Far more of her money is going into productive investment than you seem to be assuming.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-01/entertainment/30076238_1_piers-morgan-paris-hilton-product-lines

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/paris-hilton-invades-asia/