Video About Max Goldberg's YTMND Website

The gay community owes Max Goldberg a debt of gratitude for creating Dustindiamond.com so that Diamond's queer fans had a place to read hot queer fantasies about Dustin Diamond.  Goldberg later went on the create YTMND.com, which was a very popular website around 2004-2005 or so.

Here is a video I discovered regarding the rise and fall of YTMND.com.  My very first Dustindiamond.com posts is mentioned at 4:39!

Five-Minute Loop of the "Who's Kurt Steinberg" Clip from the Young Turks Show

Here is a 5:49 loop of the "Who's Kurt Steinberg?" clip embedded into a video showing different relevant pics - a new pic about every 23 seconds.

Five-minute loop of the discussion of "Kurt Steinberg" on The Young Turks

Here is a five-minute loop of a discussion on The Young Turks where I was mentioned in regards to the Ebola nurse who whined about being quarantined, apparently for political purposes.  Notice how the commentators mischaracterize the occupation of nurse Kaci Hickox, referring to her as a "doctor."

One-Minute Loop of the "Who's Kurt Steinberg" Clip from the Young Turks Show

I was mentioned in The Young Turk's show published on Monday, October 27, 2014, as discussed in a previous post.  I extracted the portion of the clip where one of the commentators said, "Who's Kurt Steinberg?" and looped it for one minute in the video embedded below!

Kurt Steinberg Mentioned on The Young Turks Show!

I was mentioned during the episode of The Young Turks which was published on Monday, October 27, 2014.  Nurse Kaci Hickox has been in the news this week because she was subjected to mandatory quarantine after returnin to the United States from treating Ebola patients in Sieraa Leone.  Hickox whined that she should not be quarantined even though there is a chance, albeit small, that she could have the disease and may transmit it.

I wrote on my Twitter account that she is a selfish cunt for putting her own personal desires above the safety of other Americans.  Apparently Hickox is a left-wing liberal and it is highly likely that she is raising a stink about the quarantine simply for political purposes, as the governor of New Jersey, where Hickox was being held, is Republican Chris Christie.

The Young Turks mentioned me in this clip below starting at 5:59.  Keen viewers may notice that the objectivity of the speakers on the show is questionable as they continue to refer to Hickox as a "doctor," even though she is just a nurse.

Article About Diamond's Unsuccessful Attempt to Shut Down dustindiamond.com

Check out this press release relating to Diamond's unsuccessful attempt to shut down dustindiamond.com. I was mentioned in this:

Parody Site Wins Domain Fight vs. Ex-Child Star Art Triumphs over Celebrity In Precedent-Setting Decision

In what appears to be a first in Internet history, the World Wide Web's legal arm has rebuffed an attempt by ex-child actor Dustin Diamond ("Screech" of TV's "Saved by the Bell") to claim the eponymous Web site, http://www.dustindiamond.com. Instead the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will allow on-line artist Max Goldberg to continue to maintain his parody Web site at the dustindiamond.com address. An arbitrator acting on behalf of ICANN issued the decision on Monday. The precedent-setting decision is believed to be the first time that a celebrity has lost a domain name dispute to a non-commercial parody site.

NEW YORK (PRWEB) April 14, 2004 -- In what appears to be a first in Internet history, the World Wide Web's legal arm has rebuffed an attempt by ex-child actor Dustin Diamond ("Screech" of TV's "Saved by the Bell") to claim the eponymous Web site, http://www.dustindiamond.com.

Instead the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will allow on-line artist Max Goldberg to continue to maintain his parody Web site at the dustindiamond.com address.

An arbitrator acting on behalf of ICANN issued the decision on Monday (National Arbitration Forum Claim Number: FA0402000237446)
. The precedent-setting decision is believed to be the first time that a celebrity has lost a domain name dispute to a non-commercial parody site.

Goldberg, 21, is a free-lance programmer whose parody Web sites have been entertaining thousands of fans for several years now. His cyber-installations include www.yourethemannowdog.com, which continues to get tens of thousands of hits every week, and another heavily visited site, www.getyourasstomars.com. Another Goldberg art site, www.ytmnd.com, is set to debut on April 10.

Faced with Diamond's 38-page legal complaint, and unable to afford to hire his own legal firepower, Goldberg wrote a 28-page response himself with the help of his mother and older sister. "I was outraged that Screech would attempt to revive his floundering career by destroying my work of art," Goldberg says. "The ICANN decision shows that an artist's right to fair use still has clout in the legal arena."

Goldberg, a resident of New York City, created the dustindiamond.com site when he was just 18 years old. The site is a low-tech masterpiece making fun of America's worship of celebrity. It includes a public forum "guest book" that has been taken over by pranksters posing as rabid Diamond fans. In a typical post, someone calling himself "Kurt Steinberg" wrote to the child actor, "Your queer fans (who comprise 97% of the people who view this guestbook daily) are simply looking for homo-erotic Saved By The Bell fantasies involving you, Diamond! Such messages allow your gay followers to lose many loads annually!"

Diamond's attorneys had argued that Goldberg's site infringed on the trademark value of the actor's celebrity, calling him "a major pop icon of the 1990s" whose "'squeaky' clean image" was being damaged.

Goldberg's response pointed out that the site's reference to Diamond as a "sex symbol" clearly signaled that it is a parody. "His 'Screech' character is a stereotypically asexual geek," the response says, "and Mr. Diamond's subsequent attempts to revive his show-business career have portrayed him in a similar light, notwithstanding his recent cultivation of facial stubble." Goldberg included a photograph of Diamond as one of the exhibits in his response as proof of the actor's lack of sexual charisma.

Goldberg also pointed out that his site sells no products, carries no advertising, and yields no income. "The site exists solely for the sake of its humorous and artistic value," his response to Diamond's complaint says. "It is truly art for art's sake."

The arbitrator found that Goldberg's site falls within the realm of "fair use." The decision reads: "The Panel accepts [Goldberg's] arguments that the 'outrageously ugly and low-tech graphics and numerous errors and misspellings,' as well as the sheer absurdity of the site's claim that Dustin Diamond is a 'FAMOUS SUPERSTAR AND SEX SYMBOL' clearly signal that the site is not meant to be taken seriously."

The decision continues, "Whether the site is regarded as parody, satire, or critical commentary, and not withstanding [Goldberg's] assertion that 'lawyers are notoriously bad at understanding how humor works,' this Panel finds that legitimate non-commercial fair use commentary is involved.'"

The complete text of the decision, together with Diamond's original complaint and Goldberg's response, are available at a site Goldberg's associates registered just in case the ICANN decision went against him: www.dustindiamondsucks.com.

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