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Quickly Filling Up 150GB of Legal Media Files?
Fred Nowicki asks: "If you have ever used the P2P client Direct Connect (or DC++) to find media on the Internet, you know that the best hubs have ridiculous sharing requirements, i.e., over 100GB. It isn't too difficult to amass a collection of 100GB of illegal movies and MP3s with all the crap that's out there, but I'd like to play it straight: I want to collect 150GB of pure legal stuff. So here's my million dollar question: What is the best and fastest way for me achieve this? I want to offer interesting, neat stuff (movies, music, programs, etc.), not just Linux distros, mind you. One thing I've found so far is a mirror of the Prelinger Archives on archive.org, which offers over 37GB of wacky, interesting stuff on divx format (in MPEG-2, it's over 350GB, but that seems like cheating if I take that route). One downside of this site is that it's not a very fast connection (about 50KB/sec through their FTP via my cable modem -- I'd like a throughput of at least 100KB/sec). I've considered mirroring the Gutenberg project, but there are all sorts of redistribution issues with a bunch of their files, and I don't want to go through all that hassle. Come on, Slashdot. Give me some URLs!"
Lots of musicians who dont have recording industy contracts distribute their music online for free
Then how do they pay their songwriters?
You might also try to find some independant films that are alowed to be shared on the internet I know that Park Wars [parkwars.com] is one.
What makes you think Lucasfilm and Comedy Partners (owners of the Star Wars and South Park franchises) won't come after you?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Its all people on the SA forums saying not to go there in these responses, its actually a really good spot (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s =&threadid=379749). There is an entire forum dedicated to P2P movies and popular TV shows. Sign up now, great community.