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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!"
cat /dev/zero > file
Doesn't EVERYBODY have 100gb of 'something special' or is that just me.
they have a looot of free music
Help your fellow P2Pers, do it right, and get real files everyone wants.
... and ask Ken Baker if you can mirror all of the programs and user-made expansions for BG I & II, Icewind Dale etc.. Some of them are pretty large (300MB +)
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
Something of this was posted in this recent slashdot story.
So let me get this straight, you want to amass 150GB of free, public domain files, to access even larger repositories of copyrighted material to which you are not entitled ?
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Genomes.
Not quite as interesting a read as a Project Guttenberg book, though.
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Be THE definitive source for legal shareware and
freeware games and apps on P2P.
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Many bands allow taping of their concerts and the redistribution of audience recordings. Lately, the most popular method of distributing these recordings is as .shn files which are a type of lossless audio. A two hour show can be about 1.0 GB so that's one way to fill a lot of space quickly. You can get started at http://www.etree.org. There are many other sites out there that will allow to download SHN shows right from their servers including, for Dave Matthews, http://www.antsmarching.org.
this is turning into "Ask Slashdot, cuz im too stupid/lazy to use Google"
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Don't take part in a tainting of a perfectly illegal p2p network. :)
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a.out >
That should fill it up pretty fast.
-Sean (fp?)
...every possible game and app demo you can. Then you'll most definitely have your 150GB.
SNACKS ARE AWESOME
wget -r http://*
Yeah, I know it won't really work...
There are a lot of free remix sites and whatnot out there. I'd recommend grabbing all you can from some of those, ex: overclocked (seems down atm) has a lot of game music remixes. I know there are also a lot of techno dj sites as well (google for them)
slashdot.sql that should do it, just imagine the social value of all that data.
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What can I say. Right place, right time and all that.
see http://etree.org for mailing lists about sites with free music to trade. Mirrors of the sites on this list are needed. Please consider it.
Mods for first person shooters can be enormous.
http://ns-co.net/ as an example.
You could also have the linux binaries for them.
You could carry Tenebrae, quakeforge, etc. It would
add up eventually.
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I'd collect a lot of legal fanfilms in DivX. Especially Scifi ones. You'd be helping film students get their movies out. Open Source software, and music creation files are highly sought after. People are always looking for soundfonts and high quality sound fonts are usually in the 128 mb area. They are just a few ideas. Just do a few searches... that can easily be done.
I'll make you a deal. You pray to God for help and I'll stop the moment he shows up.
Fetch everything from ibiblio.org and some other nice large mirrors. (SuSE used to have a CD set with some mirrors, perhaps sometime like this still exists) - i.e. fetch every Linux distribution. Software. Sources and binaries, for every platform. ...
But please don't just download the whole ibiblio.org with a fat pipe - please ask the ftpmaster before doing it, s/he'll appreciate it!
For those of you saying "share illegal stuff like you're supposed to", think about it like this. He's being smart because when the RIAA or MPAA or whatnot goes to bust people, they won't find anything being served by him that he would have to pay a fine for. Yet at the same time, he's able to get on the networks and download the illegal stuff just the same.
You can mirror them, they host demos. Those are really interesting, and not too many people have them. Admittedly, I dont think that it would be the whole 100+ gig you're after, but you could get a good 20-30 that way.
Simple. Homemade pornography is the answer. Film yourself, friends or other consenting adults engaging in wholesome sexual fun. Encode your porn into SVCD format (the most popular format for getting porn and being able to watch it in a standalone player). Pick a suitable quality level for both the audio and video and you'll quickly see that a 1 hour high quality porn should need approximately 4 700MB CD-Rs for distribution over Direct Connect. That's 2.8 gigs per movie. Now you just need to make 36 such movies and you'll be over the 100 gig sharing restriction.
I know I'm nit-picking... but if you are going to post your code all over the Internet, you should give it a twice-over.
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You hate me now don't you?
Sigh that's what I thought
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MP3.com has zillions of legally downloadable MP3s.
(however, redistributing them or spidering the website to gather the files might violate their TOS)
... gone P2P, or really the trading has eveloved. Furthur is a P@P app designed for the Trading community.
Many people who are involved in sports, motorcycling, jetskiing, or whatever else involves fun with groups of people take their camcorders along to share on usenet. The newsgroups make an efficient delivery system for spreading the word how to have fun without buying into the entertainment industry cartel.
alt.binaries on usenet news may be the death of usenet in terms of bandwidth, but there is plenty of grassroots entertainment that is not the likes of warez or commercial pr0n. Its not too hard to avoid the commercial junk and find normal people like you and me, despite the spam.
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.
But thats cheating... there are much better ways to cheat than .wav'ing your .mp3's. Nobody wants to download wav's over p2p unless they are originals and even then thats rare.
unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep
At least they were good sources.. up to about 4:40pm today.
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I'm sure you could mirror a terrabyte of shareware and demos (esp game demos) if you don't mind clicking one tons of links at download.com.
I remember back in ye olde days there were scads of stuff floating around in the Mac community when FTPing was all the rage. These days hosting a robust FTP server is a dangerous proposition.
I bet you could legally mirror tons of Micro$oft security patches and you can FTP directly to them.
Have fun and see a doctor, dude:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/
So... you wan't access to all the illegal material available, but you're scared because the BSA and MPAA have been snooping around...
What do expect to download once you get on these hubs if you're not interested in illegal material? That's the whole point of it!
Make your own pr0n. It's easy. It's fun. It fills up 100 GB pretty quick. Check for legality in your jurisdiction.
Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
http://www.theforce.net/theater/
The Right Reverend K. Reid Wightman,
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.
Could you expand on this?
-- Help Digitise the Public Domain at DP.
Not that I appreciate the way MP3.com works anymore after being bought by Vivendi Universal, but I'm pretty sure you can nab a few gigs of MP3s which are freely downloadable/legal from MP3.com. Just don't expect to be getting any big name artists giving away THEIR music.
I love /. This is the place where I can write a joke comment made in passing critiqued for the quality of the code written within it. Perhaps you should post a follow-up complaining about the uselessness of writing a file with rand() calls?
-Sean
Furthur
http://www.askthevoid.com
Anyway, I can write a new version so you could pass in the seed for srand() as an argument. :)
-Sean
Does anyone else think the Gutenberg project is being incredibly hypocritical with their redistribution rules and stuff? I mean, the whole idea is to create a public domain archive, yet they want to restrict people from redistribution unless they do it 'their' way. It especially irritates me when they require you stick their 3 page license on documents that are half a page long! I would say, redistribute the stuff. I doubt they would have any legal ground to sue you.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
go to ebay and buy any of those CD's full of "banned insider info that eBay doesn't want you to know!!"
or, start archiving your spam
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We are not amused.
Try to get vgremix (http://www.vgremix.com) and
overclocked mp3 archives...
Also try to collect all the anime music video you can....
look up some DJ Demo Tapes - most of these guys will prolly cherish the thought of lightening theirbandwidth load with further distribution - give attribution in filename
movie trailers which are downloadable will prolly not (C)-free but are gray zone - no one will honesty try to subpoena you because of it, their case would be kinda weak (not sure about that)
look for serious abandonware sites - sites that specialize i software/emulator images that are indeed released by their former makers (mostly inexistant now)
host linux distros (not sure about that)
watch /. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the /. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
Most of these are still gray area to some extent. Hard question actually...:)
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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.
1) Just point the camera out of the window, record for 24 hours, convert the footage to highest-possible quality movie and call it "Reflections on life, Part I".
2) If that's still not 150 GB, repeat the same (for 48 hours) and call it "Reflections on life, Part II"
3) Wait for movie awards to start pouring in.
4) Profit!
--- Frantisek Fuka (Yes, that's my real name and you have no idea how it's pronounced)
Maybe just record TV shows with a TV card and compress it to mpeg. You can easly get tons of GB of stuff that way. That is not against the rulings of these HUBs, what is the next important thing right after legality.
You want to collect stuff that is allready easy to get to to make it available to people in what I believe is generally a slower download medium.
Mind you it could future proof this stuff disappearing I guess.
get that dc share hack program and set it to fake 200gb's. thats what i do.
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I recommened the old "educational" movies, but there's a lot more stuff to be found at archive.org.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Etree has collaborated with archive.org to provide people with a large repository of completely legal and high quality live recordings. Check it out, you may find out about some good new bands. Stay away from Furthurnet. It's a decent idea, but its filled with bad files, written in Java, and it's slow.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
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."
Just download 150 billion digits of pi.o gram/pifasthome.html
Don't forget not to compress it
http://ja0hxv.calico.jp/ has the first 10 billion... I think there's an FTP with more but I can't find it right now.
or compute it yourself in a few weeks http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/PiPr
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."
The (mis)conception of a "24-hour trial period" in the warez community comes from various exceptions in U.S. copyright law pertaining to libraries. Warez sites claim that they are "checking out" files to patrons, putting the patrons on the honor system to "return" the files by deleting them. And the warez curators just may be able to pull it off if they disable each download for 24 hours, marking it "Checked Out".
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At least in Europe there is a law that protects collections. Forinstance, if you downloaded all of download.com - the'd have a case.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Ah, yes... Masterfully done. I didn't think of the expandability aspect :)
Why didn't you just say so, with a disclaimer or something:
Disclaimer
This code has been written with many many things in mind, more than you could ever think of. So don't make fun of it.
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Anime. Unlicensed episodes which are not illegal to distribute because there are no licensees outside of Asia. At 150-200 megs per episode, you'd be able to fit quite a few series into 150GB.
An excellent source for unlicensed anime epsiodes, subtitled in English, is AnimeSuki, where they're downloadable via BitTorrent - you know, the P2P App with Brains. Downloads are usually quite snappy.
As an added advantage to collecting unlicensed anime, it's usually quite fun to watch. The downside is that once a series becomes licensed, you have to stop sharing it. Right now, there are several good series being released. I recommend Naruto, Mahoromatic and Wolf's Rain.
Quality, performance, value; you get only two, and you don't always get to pick.
150 GB of homemade pr0n shouldn't take long.
On my Windows machine, I've got all my shared files under D:/shared/ , I've also set up (using subst) the virtual drive S: which points towards D:/shared/ . Share both D:/shared/ and S: and I've "doubled" my available file list...
Instead of actually asking a serious, important or thought provoking question that actually contributes something to this universe.I will ask what has become the standard type of Ask Slashdot Question.
What is the most pointless geeky question I can ask slashdot that will serve no other purpose but get people talking about the banal and irrelevant. My goal is to spend a lot of time and money, hacking something together that really has no purpose other than to amuse my own sad little life, and hopefully impress fellow slashdotters and provide them with funny anecdotes to share around the lunch table - "Hey some guy on slashdot is building a beowulf cluster out of 3000 gameboy advances, and he wanted to know the best colour to get!"
My end goal is to have wasted everybody's time because I probably won't start on the idea, and if I do it will wind up being an unfinished project on my personal website featuring pictures of my cat.
Almost all of the recordings available at overclocked.net (except possibly for some arrangements of Russian folk tunes such as Korobeiniki, labeled as "Tetris" remixes) are derivative works of the songs in video games and thus infringe copyrights owned by (the songwriters who licensed the music to) the video game publishers.
Music videos for major-label recordings that include footage from animated television shows infringe three copyrights: 1. the copyright on the TV show, 2. the copyright on the song, and 3. the copyright on the recording.
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Star Wars Fan Films
Which possibly infringe the copyrights of Lucasfilm Ltd.
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Good & Legal music... http://www.furthurnet.com/
Your mind moves quicker than a nun's first curry. - A. Rimmer
I'm sure most people know someone with an extensive CD and/or DVD collection. For people interested in having digital copies readily available while still preserving quality, ripping their CD's and DVD's into highest-possible quality can use up HD space very quickly. A 2-hour movie encoded at 2200 kbps (not to mention the audio bitrate) can easily go over 2 GB for that one movie. I know at _least_ one person who owns over 50 DVD's, and many of those are a good bit more than 2 hours long ;).
;).
Throw in ripping all your audio with lossless codecs and another 50GB isn't hard to come up with for anyone with a lot of CD's.
So it _is_ possible to have 150GB of legal media (assuming fair use rights). Just unlikely
-A
Try Gnutella: everything on there is legal according to the Fair Use clause in copyright law!
Get yourself a mini-DV or digital-8 camcorder and start shooting some interesting video. Each 60 minute tape is around 11 gigabytes. You'll fill up 137 GB in no time.
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.
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my advice to you is to start off at a small hub for users that have maybe 5-10GB and work your way up.
www.sourceforge.net is believe. Try to miror the source of as many projects as you can download!
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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.
look up some DJ Demo Tapes
DJ demo tapes usually contain continuous mixes of copyrighted recordings of copyrighted songs, and because there's not as much of an "open source" community in songwriting as in programming, most songs ("song" in copyright law refers to the melody independent of any recording thereof) are not published under a license allowing free redistribution of recordings.
movie trailers
This could work. I'd assume that at least one of the seven major American motion picture studios would be happy to let you mirror advertisements for its movies. Just ask first.
look for serious abandonware sites
Strictly, copyright lasts ninety-five years, but the fact that the copyright owner has allowed the program to fall out of print may constitute an admission that the work has negligible market value, and market value is one of the four primary factors of fair use.
host linux distros
This should work. However, you should look closely at the license for the distribution; some distributions of free operating systems (such as Theo de Raadt's official OpenBSD) copyright the directory structure of the distro CD and do not license it for free redistribution.
watch /. and wget/archive the referenced web sites with a distinctive name, then posting a link in the /. discussion with the filename (would be coolest if you had it on several p2p networks)
This can actually be legal in the USA under the proxy and caching exemptions passed as riders to the DMCA.
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As far as I know, there is no archive of public domain movies available on the Net. Why not rent a stack of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin classics, rip 'em to DivX, and make the world a better place? I know I'd love to be able to download stuff like that from any of the P2P networks... maybe I should finally get around to buying a DVD-ROM drive...
What's good for the syndicate is good for the country. --Milo Minderbinder
If you have the right kind of digitizing hardware for audio and video, and you have a DBS satellite TV system, you can rip all the stuff you want from it. You can archive the stuff and keep it for your future reference, and it's all completely legal.
Problems? Well... It can be time consuming to find the things you want on TV, digitize them, edit them, etc. Plus you have to pay your DBS bill. So it's not free, and I think the cost of invested time is more significant than the money.
But I just have to emphasize..... It's all legal. I've collected quite some music by this method.
Mirror the SR-71 Flight Manual at http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual on P2P.
It's like 170 MB and is an interesting, but yet tiring read.
I don't hate GSI, but they are on my "don't bother" list alongside mydrive, angelcities, ispace, and the like. You could set up a distribution with reasonable naming conventions, links from review sites, and so on.
[Set Cain on fire and steal his lute.]
Video footage of other disasters can also help you fill up a 150 GB hard disk. Here are some clips of the terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Just make sure to ask any identifiable copyright owner before you mirror them on DC.
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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?
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Mirror slashdotted webpages!
every ameture wheel to wheel racer owns a camcorder and each race produces about 100 megs of video. corner-carvers.com usually spits out about 100 megs of unique video each day, and there's links to gigs of good race footage from inside the car on famous tracks (leguna seca, for example). these videos usually get pretty low traffic so it's not uncommon to get > 1 megabit/s off of multiple files.
that's how i spent my last saturday morning
moox. for a new generation.
You could always just pretend to be sharing legal stuff which is a lot easier:
- Add cryptoAPI and cryptoloop to your kernel
- Encrypt your ridiculously large amount of disk space
- Put whatever you like on it
When law enforcement rears its ugly head to pick up your gear for evidence (and it will - always remember that):
- Accidentally cut power
- Claim amnesia
- Claim innocense
Get legal mp3's
How do you know that you have the right to redistribute files created by a patented process? The process of encoding an MP3 file is patented. From here on, I'll assume you meant "ogg" because it simplifies the analysis.
Even if you download the .ogg files directly from the band's web site, how do you know that the band has the right to distribute recordings of the musical works, or that you have the right to redistribute them? Only the songwriter can grant that, though USA copyright law caps royalties at 8 cents per track.
And even if the band members write the band's songs, how can you be sure that the band didn't unwittingly crib the melody from some popular song?
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My favourite station, WFMU, has been archiving virutally all their radio shows since August 2000. The archives are 20.6 kbps RealAudio. According to my calculations that would make around 203 GB worth of archives by now.
Once I get my iPod, that's how I am going to fill it up.
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.
But you're welcome to put the mp4 versions of all my shorts on DC.
Download 'em here.
-Brett
Into electronic music? Try Monotonik .. they have maybe a gig or more of "freely spreadable" MP3's, all great stuff. Some live sets and stuff hiding on their FTP servers as well. Awesome music, if you like artists like Thug, Lackluster, Sense, etc, or any kind of electronic/ambient/IDM stuff.
Look around for more MP3-only free labels, there are some others out there I can't remember right now, but they all encourage distribution. DJ sets are particularly nice (big) but most of them don't have permission to redistribute the songs in the first place, use your judgement on how "legal" those are.
I bet there are online movie outfits that give away stuff in a similar spirit.
I think this is a good idea, maybe someone will download one of your files and learn about a new artist who deserves their money rather than the the big labels.
[Laws of the European Union] make some US IP laws look sensible.
Not in this case. United States copyright law also recognizes a copyright on a compilation[1] of works separate from the copyrights on the individual works themselves.
[1] "Compilation" here has nothing to do with translation of a program's source code into binary code.
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Both sogamed.com, esreality.com and clanbase.com have _tons_ of gamedemos and movies from Quake1-3, Counterstrike, Unreal etc.
SoGamed alone prob. have 60GB wit cs-demos...
It's all legal.
It's free as in beer.
But if you want something almost everyone wants on DC++ hubs you could check out IRC.
-->Download mIRC connect to EFnet or Undernet.
-->Join a channel with bots that offer movies, games and albums.
-->Watch your harddisk fill.
It's not legal.
It's still free.
[Legal disclaimer: I do NOT encourage copyright infringement or any other illegal actions bla bla bla.]
Melius mori in libertate quam vivere in servitute.
a good-sized collection of free tracked (mod/s3m/xm/it/etc.) and MPEG-format music.
How do you know that the authors of those s3m files didn't inadvertently copy a popular song? George Harrison got in big trouble for that (search Google for Bright Tunes Music v. Harrisongs Music).
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Lots of musicians who dont have recording industy contracts distribute their music online for free, they don't care about the money they just want people to hear thier music, if you can find a few of such songs they would be good.
You might also try to find some independant films that are alowed to be shared on the internet I know that Park Wars is one.
I'm in to film making myself and if I ever get one of my great ideas finished, its going to be online for anyone who wants it
I've racked up 10 gigs of random stuff using httrack. Just type in some portal and have it just pick up 100 gigs of anything.
Unlicensed episodes which are not illegal to distribute because there are no licensees outside of Asia.
Can you point me to a web page that explains, with argument from statutes and case law, why redistributing such works without the written consent of the Asian copyright owner is not an infringement of copyright?
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If you cheat, the hub administrator will ban your IP address. If you cheat on three IP addresses, the hub administrator will ban your /24.
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You might want to mirror the Library of Congress. That _should_ get you started.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
If you have the right kind of digitizing hardware for audio and video, and you have a DBS satellite TV system, you can rip all the stuff you want from it. You can archive the stuff
Under precedents such as those established in the Betamax case (Sony v. Universal), archiving broadcasts is not an infringement of copyright in the United States. However, Betamax doesn't let you distribute copies of your archives.
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That was my idea, too!
Of course, I doubt the average techie is a 21-year old, large breasted, small waist'ed, long-legged Hoover of a sex-addict, so perhaps this isn't the best content to distribute.
Check out www.etree.org to find out how to get on their mailing lists. They have tons of high quality live music freely available.
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That's the answer: Just get all the text from the MS Windows Security bug reports from the last year + all related /. comments and jokes. You should get 150GB in no time. Plus it is all legal... ... oh no... wait, it is probably banned under the DMCA as it might harm sales.
Actually, this is a great idea.(not for the purpose of this particular topic, which has devolved to embarrassing depths...)
I'd like to archive it. Is there an easy way to get it in bulk(compressed, etc) that won't required many(!) individual HTTP requests? Seems like that's at least one way to get it(how far back do the /. archives go, anyways?) but it'd be much more efficient in some "bulk" format.
6 GB, right here.
If you delete the "small print" section and all references to Project Gutenberg, you can do whatever you want with the text.
However, a few of the PG texts are copyrighted. Even so, if you know Ruby, Python, or Perl, you could probably whip up a script that does the following:
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Though it does not have quite THAT much data, it does have quite a bit of great art of all types. It has everything from ASCII art to demos. I personally downloaded their entire music collection (consists mostly of tracker files), and have been slowly but surely sorting through it. Definitely a great source of music and is the last home to many a forgotten art (atleast these days for the most part).
"What can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on Earth, given the experience of the past million years? Nothing." -Bokonon
Then go ask the local high schools if you can do the same. Should be good for another gig a year, from band and chours.
Walk around with a mini-disc recorder near christmass, good for another couple hundred meg.
Then there's the "Cooledit" solution. I'm sure you could get 150GB in a couple of hours of hacking around. Just let the thing loop! Develop about 10 different effects and run them in batch mode on every other MP3 you have...
3.???
4. More MP3's?
-=fshalor
If you're interested in having these performances hosted at the Internet Archive, contact etree at archive dot org or post to the message board on the website.
Get a good digital video camera and you can take snapshots and movies. Perfect for shooting porn or whatever you like. I like to film random objects and people sort of like that creepy guy in American Beauty (only I've never had a teenage girl jump me for it.. darn) and it's really very fun. It provides lots of files too so you can enjoy using hdd space very quickly. Get used to buying a new 100+ Gb hdd with every paycheck.
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
Share an archive of cryptome.org because one of these days John is going to get thrown into a deep, dark hole.
There's still a bid demand for TV Shows. I think as long as it's a capture and not a DVD-rip, it's legal. Of course, I gave up trying to figure out what's what a long time ago.
If you want to be 100% safe, you have to deal with public domain stuff or files where you can verify legality with the owners. I would never dl Public Domain, or Linux Isos from a P2P when I can get it from an FTP that's trustworthy.
As for links, I'm not slashdotting the sites that I go to. Use a little Google action.
Probably a bad idea, but I'm sure more than just bands have an imagination and a video camera. Sponsor some creative video contests, like the AtomFilm Star Wars spoof thing...
Is there an easy way to get it in bulk(compressed, etc)
If your user agent supports mod_gzip, many web sites deliver pages with gzip compression.
that won't required many(!) individual HTTP requests?
You can minimize the number of pageviews by fetching pages in "nested" mode.
But then you run into the problem that "Comments are owned by the Poster" and that you have no way to ask Anonymous Coward for permission to reproduce the comments outside of Slashdot.
Will I retire or break 10K?
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?
Serious question here. I've never seen a good answer.
If I buy an album, then I see no problems with downloading a copy of it. After all, I could legally tape/rip it. I'm also not sure that sharing it is illegal.
If I legally own an album and make it available to a p2p network, is the onus on me or the downloader to prove the legality of it?
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Grab everything from the bootleg/live/radio recordings (bbc sessions, etc) mp3 groups on usenet from a premium provider. That might be all you actually need to do; there's a hell of a lot of stuff.
etree.org for a directory huge lossless (true CD quality) legal audio files from FTP sites. Mostly live shows. HUGE files will fill up your space fast.
mp3.com for downloads-a-plenty. All put up there by the musicians, who want you to download them!
Emusic gets my best vote here, because their CDs have a one-click to download all songs on a CD. You can go add say 50 albums to your queue with 50 clicks each night before bed, and fill up your collection pretty fast. (non-windows people use zinf for this one-click capability.)
Borrow a HD from a friend, or just buy it off them thats what I did. I use DC when I need to get a specific file, and to upload anime.
. php?t=24&start=50
... many more people would leave DC connected if it didn't KILL your connection when someone started downloading from you.
For everything else threes Usenet.
http://abma.x-maru.org/guide/
There is an interesting discussion going on at
http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/forum/viewtopic
Upload limiting is something DC is SEVERLY lacking
Lack of bandwidth management creates leechers.
~ I'm the op Ender@hexfury.dyndns.org (Upload: 197.23 GB, Download: 35.53 GB since http://dcpp.netfirms.com/ )
my associative arrays can kick your hash - TCL
...they want their bandwidth back!
ID-10-T is a way of life
Offer a free service for bands to submit audio and video recordings.
How are you going to verify that the recordings submitted aren't unauthorized covers of published songs?
Will I retire or break 10K?
An unsophisticated approach to this is:This is bad because of things like dynamically generated pages will be downloaded twice, I'm pretty sure it's not concurrent, and it won't respect the webauthors' wishes regarding archival.
Write yourself a spider to fix these.
why don't you just tell people to send you a CD of all their free stuff. I'm sure there are people with nothing better to do then send cd's, what's your address again ?
http://www.vanillaafro.com - take me seriously and I will shoot you
Redistribution seems to be OK just by including the 'Open Audio statement'. About like including the GPL when you restribute source code.
How can I find legal files on the P2P networks?
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Because it has been so inconvenient not having EBCDIC text available for my IBM mainframes! Thanks PG for the excellent work!
sulli
RTFJ.
You can mirror my movie Vendetta: A Christmas Story. Mirror all the QuickTime content and you'll have 378 MB. It's under a creative commons license, so knock yourself out :)
;)
I imagine there are many mucisians who would enjoy the free bandwidth as well, although movies will get you bulked up with less inode usage
isn't that how britney's latest (all?) album(s) were produced?
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DJs play records. Those records are usually either copyrighted or are themselves illegal.
The truth doesn't care what I think.
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...
Mirror all Emacs versions, binary and source. Not only will you have a few TB, but hard drive makers will be throwing bids at you
Banaaaana!
www.racingflix.com
You want /.ers to post URLS leading to interesting data found on the Internet?
I don't see how this could possibly work. Try AOL maybe?
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
I've always loved ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/. "#1 archive of Apple II 8-bit games and utilities in emulator DSK and file formats; plus emulators and emu info " (from callapple.org/). I believe it also has a good ][gs resources, so you'll also be getting a classic 16-bit architecture.
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...
Some odd, but possibly interesting artwork, I'll give you fullsize images plus XCF files (equivalent to Photoshop PSD files but for Linux/GIMP) to distribute. Also, I've got a bunch of cool-looking fractals I've generated. You can d/l the parameter file and use Sterling Fractal to generate say 8,000x8,000 JPEGs of these things yourself.
I know, it's not quite like MPEG2 video or anything, but it'll be a couple gig if you play it right.
Also, if you go buy a nice 5 megapixel camera and start taking thousands of pictures, you can fill up a few gig there. My personal picture collection is something like 30GB, and that's with a 3 megapixel camera.
fifth sigma, inc.
You want to find a site which has had its URL posted to Slashdot and still manages to give 100KB/sec throughput?
You must be new around here...
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Couldn't you just whip out your DV camcorder and make some recordings like snuff movies and porn (or just some goofy movie you made) and then post the DV files? That would fill up a lot of space quickly. I would've thought this would be obvioius.
Ignorance is bliss and I'm suicidal.
QuickTime Trailers
and how about mp3.com? (at least the downloadables)
not sure about their terms so, so electronicscene might be a better bet.
I have a 4800 dpi 35 mm scanner.. I have scanned over 80 gigs of images.. It not that hard when each still is 90+meg (16 bit color per channel)..
They add up really quick. And if there your own images you can share them legally..
DO NOT CONVERT TO Jpeg.. That will save too much space!.. Save as uncompressed TIFF.
If you want to fill up on legal media files then check out all the state and federal court websites. Should be plenty of transcripts to fill up that 150gb drive! Billions of pages of legalese! What more could one ask for?
Find some old movies where the copyright has expired. There are quite a few of them, and I'm sure you could easily fill the 150 Gb with them alone. Just look at some of the lists for the best movies of the 1900's through the 50's. Some of them are available, a lot of them are not. I've actually looked for quite a few, and more often then not, they're just totally nowhere to be found.
If you want to distribute them as fast as possible, just continually mislable them as "best porn ever", etc. and symlink them with all sorts of crazy names (assuming you're using a Unix type OS)
To access those hubs, just share junk. /usr does nicely. gentoo users can also share /var/tmp/portage.
Did you know that back in the day genbank releases were distributed on CD? I've got one of the old ones hanging around my kitchen to remind me of how far sequencing technology has come.
According to NCBI, GenBank has greater than 17 billion bases from greater than 100,000 species.
No p2p network that is primarily interested in legal filesharing is going to put min share limits on the clients. This sounds like this guy wants to be able to download illegal stuff, but in return share legal stuff to dismiss his fears of being arrested for sharing all illegal stuff.
If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough.
3^2 * 67^1 * 977^1
I want to collect 150GB of pure legal stuff.
Sounds analogous to "I want to collect 600 pounds of books." Man, wish MY tastes were that unspecific...
The Berne Convention and WIPO treaties obligate the US to apply the same standards to foreign and domestic works. The treaties also specify that works are "copyrighted at birth" -- even if there is no copyright notice!
I'm afraid the fact a foreign distributor does not or will not license a creative work in the US doesn't change the fact that the work is automatically protected under US law. Even worse, because of the rarity, the file may be judged to have a "street value" of $1000 (particularly if there are multiple files). This triggers the No Electronic Theft Act, which means you can not only be sued, but also be arrested and sent to federal no-parole prison! It's unfair, but it's the law.
Having said that, I'd distribute the stuff anyway.
Make cheese not war 8:)
Umm, where the hell did the 24 hour rumor start? Why in the world would that be legitamate? I am not bashing you, but I have seen more people say something about that- and I am currently studying copyright law, and there's nothing about 24 hours. To copy something you need to be paying someone (mechanical fees, etc), or get permission (usually written).
I don't know who started it, but probably the same person that's started other urban myths...
Tibbon
tibbon.com
Shhhhh...Don't tell Malda I've got root...
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Get your own free personal location tracker
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Lucas has always voiced his support of fanfilms.
Even pornographic ones?
And can you support your assertion with a URL?
Will I retire or break 10K?
Sean Kennedy, The Fucking Man (sktfm.tv) wants his episodes/broadcasts mirrored! His material is very informative, as well as extremely entertaining. Such media survives best in the wild.
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And the Angel said unto me, "These are the cries of the carrots! The cries of the carrots!"
check out furthurnet, http://furthurnet.org it is a p2p network meant just for legal live recordings of taper friendly artists. And they main format traded is shn, so single show can easily be 1 gigabyte.
-- free as in swatantryam - not soujanyam.
Now that you mention it, I've got a couple hundred gigs of great public domain content right here. Just send me the hard drives and beer and I'll get started...
1. Obtain sheet music for complete works of Bach
2. Scan it all in
3. Write special open-source music-OCR software that
transcribes sheet music into MIDI format, and run
your scanned sheet music through
4. Use timidity or something to make WAV files out of it
5. ???
6. Profit!
Of course, you'll need to hire a bunch of employees if you
want to complete step 2 in a reasonable timeframe...
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Encode your porn into SVCD format (the most popular format for getting porn and being able to watch it in a standalone player). Pick a suitable quality level for both the audio and video and you'll quickly see that a 1 hour high quality porn should need approximately 4 700MB CD-Rs for distribution over Direct Connect.
;)
I think the maximum bitrate for standards-compliant SVCDs is ~2600Kb/sec.
(2600Kbits/sec) * (1byte/8bits) * (60sec/min) * (60min/hour) = 1.170GB/hour. That's less than two cds.
If the SVCD peaks over that bitrate then it becomes a non-standard XSVCD and there are compatibility risks. Not every 480x480 29.97 or 23.976*fps (or 480x576 25fps if you're in PAL-land) mpeg2 file is an SVCD.
*For everyone that's thinking that should be 29.97002997 or 23.97602398fps, or even (30000/1001) or (4/5)*(30000/1001)fps, there's a nit on your keyboard. You'd better go pick it before it gets away!
======= FurthurNet.net: Legal Music Sharing Network...which only trades live concerts where musicians have previously agreed to the taping and trading of their shows. Here is a link to the bandlist: http://furthurnet.net/bandlist/ Examples: 311, Agents of Good Roots, Ani DiFranco, Ben Harper, Bjork, Black Crowes, Blind Melon, Etc....Check the list for your favorite Band...I found Radiohead and Beck!!!! Truly live rarities!!! Good Luck
The record companies are going to be degraded to Engeered bands and the remaining performers are going to accumulate wealth through ticket sales and devote fans buying albums.
It's always great to hear from the "enlightened," crowed.
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Never stop dreaming.
their are thousands of songs that no longer have copyright, just amass a collection of the oldiest, ALL of the oldies, get everything before ~1983(i think, isn't music copyrighted for 20 years?) and your set.
Yeah this makes perfect sense to me. Share 100gigs of Legit stuff so you are able to connect to hubs with large share requirements so you can download large amounts illegal files. Excellent idea, why didn't I think of that. Next time the RIAA etc sues me for having illegal stuff I'll just reverse the logic and claim I was hosting it so that I would be able to download legal files.
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.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
I don't think there's an easier and faster way to fill up approximately 80 GB of your disk than putting a full Debian repository on it... (trust me - I should know; I just had to throw a few arches out of our local mirror as the 80 gig partition we've got reserved for it was 99% full... and that's without mirroring potato...)
Now all we need is a P2P-method for apt... *g*
Oh yeah, throw in a few CD images of Debian (or some other Linux distro) and you'll fill up your drive in no time...
np: The Orb - Ubiquity (Orblivion)
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/classes/6.001/abelson- sussman-lectures/
"If anything can go wrong, it will." - Murphy
Check out www.etree.org. You could have 1000 gigs worth of SHNs and still be legal.
I think it still remains at
http://flapdoodle.org/exeter/ , add a www. for good measure if it doesn't work.
It's a classic, fanmade Star Trek episode!
teaser.mov is part of the episode, and trailer.mov or whatever is the last act.
Go get it!
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P2P architectures are a pretty solid delivery system. Using them for software distribution (as a backend to apt or yum, say), would massively decrease load on main servers.
Freenet is a perfect example of a general content-distribution system that takes advantage of the more efficient P2P architecture, though its insistence upon privacy brings it far down in performance.
May we never see th
It's not as much information as you
think it is.
Genbank primates (i.e. monkeys-humans)
fits on two CDs compressed. Of course,
if you want EVERYTHING and uncompressed
you can get a few GBs (including fragments,
flies, bacteria etc etc).
I'm not quite sure about the total amount
of information available right now, but
the interesting stuff should be much less
than a 2-hour raw video
P.
The quote is by Martin Niemöller:
Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
Ich war ja kein Kommunist.
Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.
Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.
Als sie die Juden holten, habe ich geschwiegen,
ich war ja kein Jude.
Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr,
der protestieren konnte.
Here's a page with an English translation.
fed-ex a couple large hard drives across the country...
:)
"Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes"
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"And may your days be long upon the earth."
while true
do
ln -s $RANDOM.mpeg bigfrigginfile.mpeg
done
Let that run for a few seconds in thy warez directory. Instant motherlode. DirectConnect can't distinguish between normal files and softlinks.
Bowie J. Poag
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There are tools that allow you to mount ISO, BIN, and alike for windows. Daemon Tools i belive. But take and image of all your CDs and then mount the images up as needed rather than hunting for CDs.
I have a site dedicated to providing free classical music recordings. The recordings are performances that I've been part of (some are not great, but there are a few real gems), and I'd cleared the legality with the other members of the groups, sound engineers, etc. I'd like to see more people do this, and in the interest of encouraging this, please check out my Free Classical Music archive.
-Ben
"The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
Why not have an archive of every spam email you have, including all the images. ISOs of every AOL cd you have gotten.
cat
tRANSELEMENt were added to Furthurnet today! tE are quite easily one of the best contemporary British bands, but the press have only recently started to latch onto this. Their 'Live in Lincoln' album has been available to download off SunSITE's Jamz server for quite some time now, but now it's even easier to download/ get to hear my favorite new band live!
The 22/02/02 Lincoln gig was professionally recorded and sounds better than many commercial live albums. If you like guitar music you will not be disappointed- download it NOW!
dan
This is probably too late for anyone to read but I happen to run a DC hub with a minimum of several gb of legal files. The file types are all live recordings of phish friendly bands that allow taping in shn format (lossless audio compression. More information on this type of legal music trading can be found at www.etree.org. My wife's and mine personal music list for trade is at http://db2.etree.org/happysheep.
Pithy, yet ultimately meaningless, phrase expressed with gusto!
There exist many musicians, that think about music in more or less same way as Free Software Foundation thinks about software: It must be free as a bird. Some of them are against a notion of "copyright" and "intellectual property".
. ht mlt mlo pyin g_primer.htmlt wisted_helices. html
t ion.org/copyleft/copyrigh.html
u sic.psp
So, get some free music. It will fill at least few gigabytes. Some of that music has such licence, that forbids selling that music, but for your purpose even that kind of music is good.
Here are my URLs:
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/fma
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp.h
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/c
http://www.twisted-helices.com/th/
http://www.negativland.com/
http://logosfoundation.org/
http://logosfounda
http://www.janisian.com/
http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/hipit/
http://www.vorbis.com/
http://www.vorbis.com/m
http://www.vorbis.com/musicsites.psp
http://www.creativecommons.org/
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen - http://iki.fi/juhtolv
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...
I finally got tired of the legal / ethical debate of using propriatary media. So I deleted several gigs and am starting over, looking for the good stuff that hasn't been commercialized. So far mp3.com and bmwfilms has had some good content.