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From Archive.org, Free Multimedia Hosting for Life
powerline22 writes "From the people who gave you the Internet Archive comes Ourmedia, a place for grassroots media to flourish. Upload anything, maybe a video, some pictures, your custom applescript, and it gets hosted for free, for life. Drupal is hosting the site, and the Internet Archive is providing hosting and bandwidth for the files."
AWESOME! Screw bittorrent now I can just download everything I need from this site. Porn, music, pirated software. Thanks archive.org!
Porn
Let's be honest here. Your own private permanent porn collection. What could be better?
I mean, what's the better way to stress-test their servers than announce it on slashdot.org?
Things are never too good to be true, especially in the computer world.
Sweet informative mod.
"For life"....
..."OF OUR COMPANY!!!." Oh shit, I said the quite part loud and the loud part quiet.
You are new here, aren't you?
Just be happy that they weren't advocating porn that includes grits anymore.....
"Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative" - Miyamoto Musashi
I think that goes for OS's too
Hopefully "for life" didn't mean the life of their websever, because that was shortened to about 5 minutes after the story was posted. :)
The site can't even handle being slashdotted... free video hosting, for life, for everyone?
Yeah.
Right.
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Slashdotted already. Thanks for playing
-- Boycott Shell
In case of a slashdotting, here's a mirror of OurMedia on the wayback machine:o rg
/ironic
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ourmedia.
Easy: When they run out of space, they start killing the users. No problem.
apparently that isn't going to be enough bandwidth. There's one question answered.
Admins need to eat.
Huh?
Given that the site is slashdotted by you hordes, I'm basing from the article posting it seems to me that this could be an easy way to obtain copyrighted material without getting any **AA involvement.
Here's the plan:
1. Claim to host multimedia for life.
2. Open access for users to *upload*
3. ???
4. Shut down because of bad business plan.
5. Reap the rewards!
Technically you didn't download any files, and by the time *AA comes by, you've shut down and stopped hosting files. (But really we all know you've made those backup copies offline.)
Am I right, or am I right?
Live forever, or die trying.
the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.
Good God, I hope not.
Isn't he that cross-dressing black guy?
All the better reason to destroy internet archives NOW. They will judge us from all of those terrible fetish-hentai-furry-goth-and-much-much-more sites out there.
In a thousand years, provided humanity hasn't wiped itself out by then, the internet archive (and by extension, ourmedia.org) will be what archaeologists use to learn about us.
Yes, because thats what I want to be remembered by, porn, All Your Base..., the star wars kid and NumaNuma. Yea... right...
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If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
Is regular tin foil okay, or should I be using the heavy-duty kind?
WHAT!?!!? Oh crap, I left them in the glass room for a month with no food!
Oh Ghod! The UNIX admins tried to eat the MCSA's brain and starved to death.
Oh the horror! THE HORROR!!!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
what exactly is the relationship of this partnership?
;)
Fellowship? Kinship? Scholarship? Readership? Worship?
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
My dear boy, "bad quality homemade ninja movie" isn't a warning around here, it's a compliment.
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
I won't tell you who their funders are, but I'll give you a hint. Their initials are F, B, and I, and C, I, and A. : p
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
(Just like humanity.)
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The effort of raising the fork to your mouth?
Running your digestion system takes energy. Even if someone injected you with glucose while you slept your heart would have to pump it around your body...
Give me a long enough cynicism lever and a firm sense of despair, and I could move the World. Into the Sun.