Tie vie on the interwebs!

March 23, 2005 11:54 AM

Free public domain shows & movies streamed to your desktop. Watch "Attack of The Giant Leeches", "Arsenic & Old Lace" and a few other classics (Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, etc.,) The schedule changes hourly from what I can tell. [I didn't directly link to the movies].
posted by KevinSkomsvold (11 comments total)

Thank you! Will you marry me?
posted by davy at 12:39 PM on March 23, 2005

Now if I can only figure out how to get it to work on Linux via Firefox....
posted by davy at 12:43 PM on March 23, 2005

Whoops. Looks like we bonked the channels. Argh!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:08 PM on March 23, 2005

Whoops. Looks like we bonked the channels. Argh!

If so the wedding's OFF.
posted by davy at 1:31 PM on March 23, 2005

Well Davy, the snowboarding channel still works. We back on?
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 1:35 PM on March 23, 2005

http://www.beelinetv.com/ has a bunch of foreign language channels...lets just say, in Iceland, when they sell condoms, they leave far less to the imagination than on U.S. tv =p
posted by nomisxid at 1:46 PM on March 23, 2005

Thanks for the link nomisxid... I just watched part of a CSI episode in Serbian. That was a strange experience.
posted by [hifidigitalboy] at 2:38 PM on March 23, 2005

Just watched a couple of episodes of The 3 Stooges. The link brightened up my day - but not enough to make a marriage proposal :P
posted by floanna at 4:04 PM on March 23, 2005

Isn't this what broadcast.com did, before Mark Cuban sold it for billions? It just had old public domain movies and things that cost nothing to broadcast, and just showed them in horrible 24k streaming.
posted by hincandenza at 6:15 PM on March 23, 2005

this is wonderful--thanks!
posted by amberglow at 9:03 PM on March 23, 2005

Isn't this what broadcast.com did, before Mark Cuban sold it for billions? It just had old public domain movies and things that cost nothing to broadcast, and just showed them in horrible 24k streaming. --hincandenza

Actually, Audionet.com (which was the company Mark started which later became broadcast.com, and then acquired by Yahoo), did stream a lot of public domain materials, but that was just a side project because it was something Mark wanted. It wasn't in any way integral to the business structure. (And we had massive, massive bandwidth pipes, so if someone was only getting 24k in the late 90's, it wasn't Audionet's fault.)

The business model had been built on radio, primarily sports related radio. There was a huge demand for people who wanted to hear their hometown team's games, or blackout games, and whatnot. That was the primary initial business model. From that came webcasting, and the public domain stuff.

I'd have to go dig around, but I'm pretty sure, somewhere in the byzantine depths of yahoo's navigational bowels, the public domain stuff still exists...but it's been years since I looked, so I could be wrong.
posted by dejah420 at 10:06 PM on March 23, 2005