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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.
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.
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 ?
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
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
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.
Don't take part in a tainting of a perfectly illegal p2p network. :)
If it's not one thing, it's Steve's Mother
wget -r http://*
Yeah, I know it won't really work...
slashdot.sql that should do it, just imagine the social value of all that data.
Got Code?
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.
The most important thing any republican needs to know.
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.
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.
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
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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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."
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."
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".
Will I retire or break 10K?
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.
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?
Mirror slashdotted webpages!
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.
Redistribution seems to be OK just by including the 'Open Audio statement'. About like including the GPL when you restribute source code.
isn't that how britney's latest (all?) album(s) were produced?
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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...
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.
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.
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...
Bzzzt! Wrong. It's illegal as per the Berne Convention.
Read: Japanese Animation Legality and Ethics FAQ, by Andy Kent
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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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."
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