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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?
with their caching idea (like coralcache) but 6months later they stopped it, whats to say the same wont happen here ? when people do hosting they want reliability not bandwidth
I mean, what's the better way to stress-test their servers than announce it on slashdot.org?
How long can this really last? Bandwidth costs money. Servers cost money. Power costs money. Admins need to eat. I think it's a good idea, but just wondering where the funds are going to come from.
Things are never too good to be true, especially in the computer world.
Sweet informative mod.
all is well and good, until they get bought by someone else. what happens to the data then? what happens if they go bankrupt, and their hard drives wind up on ebay?
The segment about the "World's Youngest Video Blogger" is amazing. The time to media was a matter of a couple weeks and she goes from her first iMovie lesson from her father to being on ABC's "People of the Year" show.
It then hit me: she's a "bigger" star online than on the television. Just watching that piece inadvertantly acts as a portent for a time when television is more or less culturally irrelevant, or more to the point, indistinguishable from "web" media.
I Want To Believe
"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. :)
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.
At my website... it wouldn't exist at the size it is now without archive.
Speed Demos Archive - Lots of speed runs!
Easy: When they run out of space, they start killing the users. No problem.
Now they don't have to buy storage and bandwidth to host their music.
Not sure what hosting costs your average indy band, but anything that saves them even a few bucks is a boon.
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
The ideal hope would be that the bandwith costs involved becomes cheaper at a rate equal to or greater than the bandwith usage. That is, the net cost remains constant or less than the influx of money from public and private sources. Given that bandwith usage by clients will rise as bandwith costs for them drop, this might be too optimistic, but economics is always a hard thing to predict when it is so technologically dependent. They could also try to get people like Google to back this project as part of their new library initative.
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Want a free iPod?
Or try a free Nintendo DS, GC, PS2, Xbox. (you only need 4 referrals)
Wired article as proof
I'm guessing that they haven't enabled Drupal's throttle feature. The feature allows you to weight blocks of content/features and switch them off at predetermined load levels. Drupal, with a decent host of course, is perfectly capable of handling slashdot levels of traffic if traffic throttling is implemented properly.
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 rules: fair use
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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?
That's a mantra for C21st America if ever I heard one. Of course there's such a thing as 'free'. Yeah, someone pays, but if it ain't me, then it's free. If I end up with two copies of a book and I give one away, I've paid for both but the surplus copy is entirely free to whoever I give it to. If I help a friend out with their PC, I pay with my time, but the service is free to them. Things are sometimes done in kindness, or in the service of a better world, even in this day and age. Don't let 'them' convince you otherwise.
Of course, free iPod schemes are a different matter, and I'd imagine this kind of cynical appeal to the frugally covetous is what you're talking about. But I don't equate archive.org with the architects of those kind of schemes. It IS still possible to get something good and decent for free, and that's something to be thankful for.
The Internet Archive has been around since 1996. We're funded by webcrawls-by-contract and by the Brewster Kahle Foundation. The Archive is a non-profit organization. We have no creditors. So relax.
It is in our charter to perpetuate our archives forever, and it's a charge we take seriously. As our hard drives go bad (and oh do they ever!) they are replaced by new ones, and we are protected from data loss by mirroring our archives across machines, and across data centers in different countries.
-- TTK
What the hell -- we're a free, not-for-profit, open-source media project. It doesn't get more Slashdotty than that.
We're looking for coders to help out on Ourmedia -- to make it a Slashdotter's multimedia wet dream.
The Ourmedia Project is relying on open-source developers to build new functionalities for the site -- such as media ratings, new RSS features, playlists, social networking, license searches, improved taxonomies -- and to help build a global registry connecting a network of grassroots media sites.
That means six months from now we don't want to be just a destination website -- we want open-source schemas that will let any site hook into a global network of freely accessible grassroots media.
But we can't pull that off unless more expert coders pitch in. (Here's our current project team and advisory board.) (Apologies, we're adding more servers tonight.)
See our Volunteer page for details. Pass it along. Or ignore this, as you wish. :~)
-- jd (email), co-founder