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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!"
Genomes.
Not quite as interesting a read as a Project Guttenberg book, though.
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
Welll...
It is vastly faster and cheaper to fed-ex a couple large hard drives across the country than to download files over a wire. Just find an archive, send your drives and a case of beer to the maintainers and ask them to copy their archive and send the hard drives back to you.
If you send it priority, you could have your archive in a couple days.
The Dead (and several other bands) freely allow the trading of mp3's. Check out www.gdlive.com, if you want. One or two of their monster jams should just about reach 150GB.
Get some of those 50's movies from archive.org's Prelinger Collection
The "Are you popular" MPEG is 260 MB+
From their terms of use:"Access to the Archive's Collections is provided at no cost to you and is granted for scholarship and research purposesonly."
I share files over p2p, but all i share are music by local artis whos stuff i downloaded from mp3.com, that seems pretty legal to me. The only other stuff i share is some animated shorts that you cant really find anywhere, and some install files for a couple of freeware games.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
And the Internet Archive has eight servers of SHNs, featuring over 2,200 concerts!
game music remixes
Do you have permission from Konami or Sega to distribute recordings of Konami's or Sega's copyrighted musical works? I don't think so. See my other comment.
Will I retire or break 10K?
BeyondUnreal.com will be happy to let you mirror all their files (currently 20GB, always growing) so long as you sacrafice your upload bandwidth to the rabid BU visitors (they get alot) and allow them updates whenever necessary.
Use FLAC [xiph.org] and make Perfect CD Quality copies of your CDs and make them available.
"Your CDs"? That only works if you're in a band. Even if the original poster is in a band whose members write their own songs, how many albums has that band released? Divide that by about 4 to see how many GBs that would make up.
And if the original poster is in a band whose members write their own songs, how can they be sure that in writing the songs, they didn't accidentally infringe another songwriter's copyright?
Will I retire or break 10K?
The Movie Archive of www.archive.org contains all sorts of fascinating, cool, and as far as I know redistributable movie files.
A tiny sample of a few that I've grabbed:
* "Duck and Cover" - the classic scary bomb-readiness film for schoolchildren
* "I like Ike" - Eisenhower political ad, animated
* "Are You Popular?" - bizarre and weird example of 1950's conformity and culture
The collection is just huge, and you can no doubt find some crazy cool stuff. Mirror the whole thing, and you'll probably start approaching 150GB very quickly, at the raw speed of your download pipe.
I thought you were trolling at first, but then I realized, you do have a point. Allow me to re-phrase:
"So-called unlicensed episodes are episodes which you're highly unlikely to get into legal trouble for sharing, because there are no licensees outside of Asia, and the licensees that do exist largely tolerate the practice, because it helps sales when the anime in question is eventually brought to market in the rest of the world."
Sorry for messing that up in the original posting. I really should know better.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
I would never dl Public Domain, or Linux Isos from a P2P when I can get it from an FTP that's trustworthy.
Why wouldn't you trust a copy of a free operating system distribution you download on a P2P filesharing network? If you download a file from P2P, and its MD5 hash matches the hash available on the trustworthy FTP site, there should be not one bit of difference between the file you got from P2P and the file on the trustworthy FTP site.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Check out openmusicregistry.org.
You can find lots of free content from the links at the registry.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
How could I forget this? You could mirror an entire computer science education - a whole year's worth of the ArsDigita University lectures. They are under a sharing-friendly license.
The details are here:
http://aduni.org/donate/
If you were to offer to mirror all these files, I'm sure the folks who are currently maintaining them would be most grateful.
microsoftword.mp3 - it doesn't care that they're not words...
QuickTime Trailers
Okay, here's my idea: lots and lots of government documents.
First, any law archives you can get. Any commentary. You should be able to find tons of stuff out there, and it would be useful.
Second, all FOIA info that is online, which you can get.
Third, all government publications: "Statistics of Income", for example, is a huge archive.
Fourth, -- and here's a techie POV: see if you could get NASA docs online. There's all kinds of useful stuff out there, from such things as the low-speed GA-W-1 or Clark-Y standard wing sections, to hypersonic data, to investigation results from the Challenger, to -- you know what's coming now, because of Columbia.
Fifth, anything from any of the engineering societies that you can distribute online, do. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of them have books that are out of publication and will not be republished. You may be able to get them in PDF format. Chapter by chapter, that could be a great P2P download.
If you do this, I'm willing to bet you'll get a ton of downloads. Lawyers, engineers, do-it-yourselfers, and so on would all be using your service.
BTW: Thanks for trying to go P2P the legal route, and respecting law.
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movie trailers
I was sent a cease and desist order for selling 16mm (not even 35mm) movie trailers on Ebay. Selling them on Ebay wasn't the same as giving them away via P2P, but I've got a feeling they won't go much easier on you because of it... at least I wasn't giving away digital copies. They really hate that.
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I quickly amassed over 5 GB of religious documents and writings that I was hosting in an effort to smuggle them into China. It took less than 2 weeks to gather that much data from the Vatican website (vatican.va) and other Catholic websites.
Funny thing about religious documents -- people give them away for free, will actually pay other people to distribute them, and some countries try to squash them for political reasons. But, hey, the minute you start trying to talk about *LEGITIMATE* uses of P2P...