On 04/21/2012 10:00 AM, turquoiseb wrote: > I have noticed lately a proliferation of websites with a > new domain name, one ending in .ME > > Curious, I looked into it, and it appears to be the domain > of Montenegro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.me > > Why I've noticed it is that several of the torrent trackers > have switched over to .ME domain names. I suspect this is > because they don't truck with copyright cops coming in and > telling them who they can rent cybertime to and who they > can't. > > Also, they are very clever in how they sell the domain names > themselves. Some they sell off for a very reasonable base > price; others they put up for auction. Such as: > > Premium domain Event Registered for > date.me TRAFFIC, New York 70,000 $ > love.me DOMAINfest, Santa Monica 32,000 $ > like.me SnapNames online auction 26,500 $ > teach.me NameJet online auction 20,100 $ > ask.me TRAFFIC New York 20,000 $ > trade.me SnapNames 18,501 $ > buy.me TRAFFIC New York 17,500 $ > click.me SnapNames 17,200 $ > contacts.me Sedo 15,600 $ > host.me NameJet 15,200 $ > loan.me TRAFFIC New York 15,000 $ > map.me SnapNames 14,500 $ > > I checked, and fuck.me is currently available. I can't for > the life of me think of what I'm put on such a website, but > I'm toying with bidding on it anyway. :-) > > Bottom line of this rap is that I was curious as to whether > anyone here had ever heard of a site called tubeplus.me/ > One of my reasons for writing this is to find out whether > you *can* see it from your country. > > I can see it just fine from the Netherlands, and I simply > don't understand (other than the ME domain name) how it > is able to do what it does. What it is is a site on which > you can watch the latest movies and television (pirated) > live, streaming, without downloading them. > > I do not understand how this works technically, and I do > not understand how they're able to get away with it > legally, given the recent Inquisition-like activities > of the copyright cops. > > I'm not suggesting that any of the upright, moral members > of Fairfield Life indulge in such a site, mind you. I'm > just passing its existence along to the curious as what > it is, a curiosity. > > >
This all started in the late 1990s with the small island country of Tuvalu making their assigned domain for sale to fund the country since they figured the populace would NEVER use up all the domain names. Hence the ".tv" domain. And these are cheaper domains than the usual .com ones. The bidding is of course on more valuable sites. Anyone can get an evaluation of their domain name and it used to be free but many charge nowadays. And I think ICANN does not allow fuck.me to be registered. Yes I've heard of tubeplus.me. Remember that those Harvard trained MBAs who run the studios are dunces when it comes to technology. And they are also control freaks. Personally I would love to see Hollywood fail because they are too big. Of course people like Stu would be out of work and I've already on another forum have been arguing with industry people who are noticing their living is going away because of the democratization of the arts. In the old days you needed talent and a connection to work the "big time." Nowadays anyone can post something to YouTube which as Kevin Smith says "makes it difficult to stand out." And as the late Kurt V would say, "so it goes." Now we recently saw one effect of the copyright police right here on FFL when Raunchy posted a video she did and it got taken down because she used a song she didn't write. That was the German "Gema" organization at work: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/21/youtube-loses-music-clip-copyright-battle-in-german-court/ Flat out a lot of those music videos on YouTube are infringements because some dummy put up a tune they ripped off a CD and put a picture with it. They don't own the song and have no right to do so. But on the other hand the stupid record industry could be posting 30-second clips like that to promote their music. They're way to dense for that even though in the early 1990s they came around to the company I worked for because they saw a market in licensing 30-second clips for usually around $300 for use in software. They did see it as a promo. And the DMCA sort messed up "fair use". As my own protest and democratization effort I am going to upload some of my "library" tunes. Most of these are fully orchestrated background music I wrote for family videos back in the 1990s and I will make them Creative Commons for others to use. They professional sounding and original. There is one that I wrote like a joke because it is 1950s Leave it to Beaverish. It is a beautiful day in the Bay Area and I shot some footage with my new camera so I'll post a video later with another guitar tune ala Clint Eastwood as background. It's also Beer and John Muir day here too with a beer festival and John Muir celebration taking place at the same park. :-D BTW, you might like the new HBO series "Girls" which is about a bunch of young college graduated women trying to survive in New York. It's very much about the millennial generation and the difficulty they are having surviving this day in age. It is scripted and not a reality series. Also "Veep"" debuts tomorrow evening on HBO a comedy with Julia Lewis-Dreyfus starring as a Presidential VP ala Sarah Palin.
